Ancient Indian science: Mohenjo Daro (ca. 2000 BC) From the time of the Harappans to the time of the Islamic conquests, Indian scientists and mathematicians were leaders. Ancient Indian science especially stood out in mathematics and [...]
Model of Indian cotton gin (1100s AD) How did people get the seeds out of cotton? When people in India first started to grow cotton, they picked the seeds out [...]
A cotton and alpaca wool cloth from Peru, about 200 AD (in the Brooklyn Museum) First place where people grew cotton South America was the first place in the world where people grew [...]
India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
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 [...]
