European trade goods (thanks to Nebraska Game and Parks Division) North American people made rapid scientific advances in the course of the 1500s AD, inspired by contacts with traders and [...]
Equal rights for women? Abigail Adams During and after the American Revolution, the rich white men were writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Declaration of Independence Constitution Bill of [...]
History of clothing: Venus of Lespugue, ca. 25000 BC, now in the Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, wearing a grass or string skirt The first clothing Clothing was very expensive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
