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10 09, 2017

Colonization timeline – 1500 AD to modern times

By |2019-09-05T06:37:13-07:00September 10th, 2017|History|Comments Off on Colonization timeline – 1500 AD to modern times

Tenochtitlan under attack (painted in the 1600s) Ships and sailing improve Beginning about 1450 AD, Europeans took advantage of new advances in sail technolog. They invaded and took over most of the [...]

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, [...]

22 06, 2017

Honey spreads around the world – Bee keeping

By |2019-02-11T21:07:01-08:00June 22nd, 2017|Food|Comments Off on Honey spreads around the world – Bee keeping

Bee-keeping reaches West Asia: a wax writing tablet from Uluburun shipwreck off the coast of modern Turkey (1300 BC) Bee-keeping reaches the Eastern Mediterranean By 2400 BC, people were keeping [...]

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