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10 08, 2017

History of tobacco – Tobacco as medicine and money

By |2018-05-30T19:19:04-07:00August 10th, 2017|Economy, North America|Comments Off on History of tobacco – Tobacco as medicine and money

History of tobacco: Tobacco plants growing Early history of tobacco Tobacco is an American plant. Like other flowering plants, it probably evolved during the Triassic era, about 250 million years [...]

10 08, 2017

Indentured servants – American history

By |2017-08-10T23:09:09-07:00August 10th, 2017|Economy, North America|Comments Off on Indentured servants – American history

Indentured servant Nanny Hull, working on Quaintance farm in Kentucky in the 1800s Because most of the people who lived in North America had died during the 1500s AD of smallpox and measles and other diseases brought by [...]

4 08, 2017

Machine-made clothing – Europe 1600s-1800s

By |2018-04-08T11:14:14-07:00August 4th, 2017|Clothing, Modern Europe|Comments Off on Machine-made clothing – Europe 1600s-1800s

India cotton (1600s AD) In the early 1600s AD, traders began to bring cotton cloth to Europe on sailing ships from India. People thought this cotton cloth was very convenient - it was pretty, [...]

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