History of Bananas – Southeast Asia
A bunch of bananas: History of bananas Where do bananas come from? Wild ancestors of banana trees grew in southeast Asia. Like chickens, bananas were first domesticated in southeast Asia. [...]
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Where do avocados grow? Mexico – Avocado history
Avocado history: this is a modern avocado. Where do avocados grow? Mexico. Where do avocados come from? Avocados first evolved about 350 million years ago. That was in the Cretaceous [...]
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Where do almonds come from? West Asian food
History of almonds: Almonds drying after harvest (Southern Spain) Where do almonds come from? Wild almonds are related to peaches and apples. Almonds probably evolved about the same time, around five [...]
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Third Intermediate Period: Ancient Egypt
Philistines on the Egyptian temple at Medinet Habu After the death of the last Ramses in 1085 BC, Egypt fell apart. Nobody knows exactly why, but there may have been [...]
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What was Egypt like in the Stone Age?
Hunting birds in ancient Egypt During most of the Stone Age, people in Egypt, like people everywhere else in the world, lived by hunting and gathering their food. They traveled [...]
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Second Intermediate Period – Ancient Egypt
Minoan painting on the wall of the Hyksos palace Around 1786 BC, some people we call the Hyksos invaded Egypt. The Hyksos invasion ended the Middle Kingdom and started the [...]
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Old Kingdom Egypt – Ancient Egypt
Old Kingdom Egypt: Narmer Palette (about 3100 BC) Egypt becomes one country When Egypt first became one unified country around 3000 BC under a Pharaoh from Upper Egypt (the south), [...]
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Egypt under Islamic rule
Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Egypt (900s AD) With the rise of the new religion of Islam, the Arabs started a new empire centered on Syria. Soon the Arabs conquered Egypt, [...]
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Ancient Egypt history – Stone Age to Islam
Ancient Egypt history: a map showing Lower Egypt (in the north) and Upper Egypt (in the south) African people have probably been living in Egypt at least since 100,000 BC, [...]
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Ptolemies and Cleopatra – Greek Egypt
Ptolemy I Soter, on a coin (He's trying to look like Alexander) Alexander conquers Egypt In 332 BC Alexander the Great and his Greek army conquered Egypt from the Persians who [...]
