What’s a percentage?
A sheep in a pasture A percentage is a certain number of hundredths of something. For instance, if you have a hundred sheep, and you give five of them to [...]
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What’s a numismatist? The history of coins
Numismatists study coins like this Roman silver coin from the 200s AD A numismatist is a person who studies coins, to find out when they were made, and where, and [...]
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Paper money and letters of credit
Chinese paper money What came before paper money? For almost two thousand years, people used metal coins for money, or they used letters of credit (like a check today). History [...]
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Who invented money? History of money
History of money: A Lydian gold coin What is money? Money is an agreement between people. It is an agreement that this much of something will be worth this much bread, [...]
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Ancient Economy – Simple economic history
Ancient economy: a bone sickle - the flint teeth are missing now Trade or self-sufficiency? Even today experts don't really understand how economics works. Historians also disagree about how economics [...]
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History of Hunting – Running, Nets, Bows
Persistence hunting People have been hunting for a long, long time; the history of hunting is older than people. Even monkeys hunt meat with sticks. So men and women have been hunting since [...]
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Gathering wild foods – History of Food
A person gathering honey (Arana Cave, Spain, 8000 BC) What is gathering? Gathering means collecting plants that grow wild for food. Early humans gathered all of their food from the [...]
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Planting crops – History of Farming
An Egyptian using a hand plow (about 1400 BC) The first part of farming is planting the seeds in good dirt, so they can begin to grow. In most parts [...]
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Organizing farm work – History of farming
Egyptian wall painting of farm work Family farms Maybe when people first started farming, each family pretty much farmed by itself. Mom and Dad and the kids planted the grain [...]
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What is irrigation? Farming History
Irrigation farming: an irrigation canal in Mali (Africa) Dry farming (without irrigation) Often people farm in a place where enough rain falls during the year (and at the right times) [...]
