Early European economy – northern Europe
Abrigo del Ciervo, Spain, ca. 6000 BC: Early European economy Hunting and gathering The first people in Europe lived by hunting and gathering; they probably had both dogs and bows [...]
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History of swimming in the Americas
Aztec swimmer from Teotihuacan (ca. 500 AD) The first people who came to the Americas probably already knew how to swim, as they got their food from fishing and gathering [...]
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Wine-making and wine presses – History
Roman slaves treading grapes Wine-making started out pretty simple: you picked the grapes and put them in a big concrete box, and then barefooted people - usually enslaved people - [...]
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Where are sweet potatoes from? Central America
Sweet potatoes People in both North America and South America ate lots of sweet potatoes. That's because sweet potatoes are very good for you. They have lots of calcium, potassium, [...]
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Sugar and slavery – North America
Slaves on a sugar plantation about 1550 AD When European explorers came to North America about 1500 AD, they soon saw that the islands of the Caribbean - Cuba, Jamaica [...]
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Sugar and the Islamic Empire
History of sugar: Sugar also has a lot of carbohydrates History of sugar in the Islamic Empire When the Abbasid army conquered northern India about 750 AD, the troops brought [...]
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Rice history: Where does rice come from? South-east Asia
Rice history: A bowl of brown rice What is rice? Rice is a kind of grain, or grass, like wheat, millet, or barley, that provides carbohydrates to people who eat its [...]
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When did people start to eat honey?
Early history of honey: A chimpanzee smashing a beehive to get honey When did bees start to make honey? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, [...]
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History of coffee – Where does coffee come from?
Where does coffee come from? Coffee history starts in Africa. Coffee plants grew wild in East Africa. Sometime before 1000 AD, the people who lived in Ethiopia, in East Africa, began to pick [...]
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Chocolate and Africa
A white man beating an enslaved African man in Brazil African-American slavery and chocolate As more and more people wanted chocolate, farmers had to grow more and more cacao beans. [...]
