History of cats – Where did cats come from?
History of cats: Sumerian clay head of a cat (Iraq, ca. 3000-2000 BC) Evolution of cats Wildcats first evolved from earlier mammals in Europe during the late Tertiary period, about [...]
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06, 2017
History of Baskets – Who invented baskets?
History of baskets: Baskets from ancient Egypt (now in the Louvre) Who invented baskets? Chimpanzees don't weave baskets. But people probably learned how to make baskets very early on, soon after [...]
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06, 2017
Cooking the ancient world – History project
Chinese food Try cooking some food in the style of different places and times. Then your class or your family can eat it! These are some ancient cultures you might [...]
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06, 2017
Ramayana play – Ancient India project
A scene from the Ramayana This is a play, with parts for many children. The Ramayana is an old Indian story, and in India it has been acted as a [...]
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06, 2017
History of spinning – Hand spindles
Hand spindles with whorls Spinning has probably been around almost as long as people have. Every group of people known on earth at least knows how to pick some long [...]
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06, 2017
Pearl Diving – History of Pearls
A pearl inside an oyster Very early in human history, maybe around 100,000 years ago, many people lived along the coasts of Africa and lived mainly on seafood - seaweed, [...]
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06, 2017
What is linen? What is flax?
History of linen: The Tarkhan Dress, the world's oldest woven clothing - linen, from Egypt, about 3500 BC What is linen? Linen is one of the first fibers that people [...]
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06, 2017
What did people wear? The history of clothing
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 [...]
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06, 2017
Why was the cotton gin important? American History
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 [...]
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06, 2017
Slavery and the Cotton Gin – American History
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 [...]
