Sharecroppers and cotton – American History
Sharecroppers and cotton: Cotton pickers in the 1800s AD Slavery and the cotton gin The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 AD made it possible for enslaved people to [...]
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Slavery and the Cotton Gin – American History
Slavery and the Cotton Gin: A cotton baby dress from about 1796 AD (Wisconsin Historical Society) Cotton in the Caribbean When European explorers came to the West Indies in 1492 [...]
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Song Dynasty Chinese Clothing
Song Dynasty (1100s AD) silk and gold woman's jacket Huang Family tomb, in Fuzhou During the Song Dynasty, in the 1100s AD, most people still wore clothes made of hemp, [...]
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Chinese clothing – Ming and Qing Dynasties
Qing Dynasty fisherman In the Qing Dynasty, most people kept on dressing the way they had before: both men and women wore mostly loose blue or black cotton shirts over [...]
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Scythian clothing – Central Asian clothing history
Plaid wool fabric from about 1000 BC, from western China It's cold in Central Asia Central Asia is pretty far north, so it's pretty cold there. More about Central Asian [...]
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Russian clothing history – Central Asian clothing
The Svyatoslav Family (Kiev, ca. 1000 AD) At the western end of Central Asia , Russian people, who were mostly farmers and not herdsmen in the Middle Ages, dressed more like their Byzantine [...]
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What clothes did Mongols wear? Central Asian clothing
Kyrgyz women spinning Around 1000 AD, the Mongols were still wearing mostly hemp clothing like the earlier Scythians. But in addition to their tunics, the Mongols sewed the hemp into [...]
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African Clothing and Colonization
African clothing and colonization: this is Indian cotton cloth - ca. 1500 AD Africans imported cloth from India By 1500 AD, most people in Africa were making at least some [...]
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Daily Life in Early Africa
African people: Mary and Jesus, from Ethiopia (ca. 1500 AD) (Now in the J. Paul Getty Museum) Equality and power in early Africa Ancient African society mostly didn't have the [...]
