Knotted rugs – Central Asian Economy
Pazyryk rug (ca. 300 BC) Where are the first knotted rugs from? The world's first knotted rugs were probably made just south of the Caspian Sea in what is now [...]
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What was the Silk Road? Central Asian Economy
Mongol herdsman Hunting wild animals The first people moved into Central Asia about 50,000 BC. They were probably following the big animals that they hunted for food and leather skins [...]
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Later Central Asian Economy
Grasslands of Central Asia - the steppe In 1500 AD, most of Central Asia was grassland. Nomads rode horses and tended big herds of cattle there. Only in the western part of [...]
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What is basalt? Geology and Grindstones
A Roman road paved in basalt (This is from Trajan's Market in Rome) Basalt and volcanoes Basalt (bu-SALT) is a volcanic stone - it forms from the lava that volcanoes [...]
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African Economy – Early Modern
Early modern African economy: Guinea Cloth (Cotton) Early Modern African economy In the late 1400s AD, Portuguese traders figured out how to sail to West Africa instead of getting there [...]
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African Economy Learning Activity
African salt caravan To have a chance to think about what these economic trades would have meant to African people, imagine you are one of these people (if you're in [...]
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Ibn Khaldun
Palace of the Hafsids in Tunis (now the Bardo Museum) - where the economist Ibn Khaldun spent time Ibn Khaldun's childhood The economist Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunis, in [...]
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Stone Tools in early Africa – African technology
Early basalt choppers from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) The first stone tools Chimpanzees use stones to hammer on nuts and break them open, and they collect stones to throw at enemies. [...]
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History of Gold
History of gold: Gold bust of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamon (ca. 1300 BC) People have been using gold to make jewelry since the Stone Age. You can find it just [...]
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Medieval African Economy
Medieval African economy: A salt caravan across the Sahara Desert West African caravan trade The African economy had always involved international trade. But trade became even more important in the [...]
