Islamic archery contest If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient Islam, here's some ideas other people have found useful: [...]
A sheep in a pasture The most interesting thing about wool is that sheep didn't always have wool, or not enough to notice. When people first started hunting sheep, they [...]
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 [...]
India cotton bolls hanging from the plants India cotton farming About 2500 BC, a thousand years after people started to grow cotton in Peru, the Harappan people in India also [...]
A Zhou Dynasty bronze tripod How were the Western Zhou like the Assyrians? How were they not the same? The Western Zhou dynasty ruled China at about the same time [...]
History of Christianity: One of the earliest images of Jesus, from St. Callisto catacomb in Rome (ca. 250 AD) Empires and Christianity Around the time of the beginning of the [...]
