to prevent disease. The history of chocolate‚ from before 1900 B.C. the cocoa bean‚ its drink and its many other uses were used like salt and pepper is used today. There were many uses for it within the Mesoamerican to the Mokaya and other pre-Olmec people. This went on to the Mayan and the Aztecs who used it until the Spanish introduced it to Europe in the 1500’s. Today chocolate in its many forms‚ from milk to dark and even white has made quite an impact on all cultures. Each culture used it
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For many years corn was only known in the Americas‚ now it is the most important grain in the world after wheat. When Columbus was traveling to search for new lands‚ he stumbled upon the island of Cuba and found native Indians that raised corn. In America we know the plant as corn whereas in Spanish-speaking countries it is called maize. The corn stalk itself has obvious features like the coarse leaves and its grown height. A corn stalk can range from 3 to 15 feet tall. The corn itself is consisted
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When utilized as a count entity‚ a culture is the set of customs‚ traditions‚ and values of a society or community‚ such as an ethnic group or nation. Culture is the set of cognizance acquired over time. In this sense‚ multiculturalism values the halcyon coexistence and mutual reverence between different cultures inhabiting the same planet. Sometimes culture is additionally used to describe categorical practices within a subgroup of a society‚ a subculture‚ or a counterculture. Within cultural anthropology
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Talha Syed October 2nd‚ 2014 Speech Professor Ratcliffe Basketball: The Greatest Sport Invented (Outline) General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the history‚ basic rules‚ and the development of basketball. Introduction Attention Getter: There is no “I” in team‚ but there is in wIn. This is a quote from the 6x NBA Champion‚ Michael Jordan. Thesis: The game of Basketball is a very exciting sport. You need to be able to communicate with your teammates
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of the world (Egypt and Indus) around the same time as in Sumerian. There are four writing systems that are considered to have developed around the time of 3000 BCE up to 600 BCE: Cuneiform of Sumerian‚ Egyptian hieroglyphs‚ Chinese logographs and Olmec scripts. Though the writing systems may not have evolved at the same time or at the same rate they still share one thing in common. In many of these ancient societies writing was an important aspect of their culture and so it was highly revered by
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A History of Writing one of the earliest examples of writing‚ a 4th millennium tablet from Uruk‚ lists sacks of grain and heads of cattle The earliest writing seems to be an accounting device to record inventory. Clay tokens were used for this purpose in the Mediterranean as early as 8000 BCE and were common by 4000 BCE. Clay tablets from Sumer‚ c. 3200 BCE‚ show early pictographic writing‚ which later became wedge-shaped cuneiform . . . Univ of Chicago Oriental Institute Cuneiform
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The world experienced many changes through the years of 300 to 1500 C.E. The first empires rose‚ and when they fell new ones were ready to take their place. These empires became even more connected through trade routes. With trade came the spread of religion‚ culture‚ and ideas. The spread of religion also lead to today’s widespread world religions. Trade was not always a good thing‚ though‚ it also spread deadly diseases that reduced populations and caused the fall of empires. The three classical
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Mayan Mathematics In our modern world‚ one can argue that mathematics is a universal language. Numbers have been recorded in various forms throughout time. For example‚ the Babylonians used marks pressed in clay; the Egyptians used papyrus ink brushes to create tally marks; and the Maya introduced a symbol for zero. All these ancient peoples used numerals or written symbols to express what they meant mathematically. They developed their own numeration system‚ which is a collection of uniform symbols
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the hunters - gatherers of the Americas? 4) Fill in the chart below that summarizes the early civilizations discussed in this section. The first group has been filled in for you as an example Civilization Dates Existed Location Achievements Olmec 1200 BC – 400 BC Central
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