A llama in Bolivia - llamas live in South America Where did llamas come from? Llamas evolved from camels. Camels evolved in North America about 45 million years ago. They lived in the [...]
Pieter Brueghel, Carnival (Mardi Gras) on the left and Lent on the right First there was Lent In the later Roman Empire, around 300 AD, people began fasting for Lent, for the forty [...]
History of turkeys: Wild turkeys When did turkeys evolve? Turkeys evolved from earlier birds. The ancestors of the turkey evolved about 100 million years ago, from the dinosaurs that were [...]
Medieval painting of a man with a pig Proteins are foods that your body can use as building blocks to make muscle or skin or bones. Some foods that have [...]
Ancient Egyptian food: Actual bread from Egypt's New Kingdom (Vatican Museum, Rome) Ancient Egyptian food: from both Africa and West Asia Because Egypt is in Africa, but very close to [...]
A Native woman making pemmican Our word "pemmican" comes from the Cree word "pimikan". Pemmican was a sort of energy bar: not great food, but a lot of fat and sugar [...]
Muscles project: Raw meat is made of muscles from animals. If you want to see what muscles really look like, it's pretty easy! All of the meat you eat is made [...]
