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HIST 011: World History since 1500

Professor Mark McNicholas

Search Strategies

To find relevant results in LionSearch, a database, or Google:

Try using Boolean operators (and, or, not):

AND narrows your search results

  • economy AND maritime

OR expands and broadens your search results

  • religion OR society

NOT excludes and narrows your search results

  • kingdoms NOT empires

Try using quote marks around phrases (words naturally spoken together and names of people):

  • "Ottoman Empire"
  • "Czech Republic"
  • "Tsar Alexander II"

Try using site:. to limit your web domain (.edu - .org - .gov. - .mil):

  • Iran and history site:.edu