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SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, byhis
THE CRAB AND THE CRANE Cite this page: Carr, K.E. The Crab and the Crane – Jataka Tales. Quatr.us Study Guides, July 20, 2017. Web. May 26, 2021.PELIAS AND MEDEA
When Jason and Medea got home with the Golden Fleece, the bad king Pelias still didn’t want to hand over power to his nephew.So Medea thought up a great magic plan to get rid of Pelias. She told Pelias’ daughters she could make him young again with her magic. BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY A famous Br’er Rabbit story. This is a story about Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox. Br’er Fox was sick and tired of Bre’r Rabbit tricking him. He decided to settle Br’er Rabbit for good. HISTORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Playing a Chinese qin. The first stringed instruments. The earliest stringed instruments may have come from West Asia, where the Sumerians built thin lyres as early as 3000 BC. By 2500 BC people in northern Syria were also playing lyres, and by about 1900 BC, in the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian musicians had also learned to play the lyre, though lyres did not become common in Egypt until the JAPANESE FOOD HISTORY Food in Stone Age Japan. The very earliest people who lived in Japan, starting about 40,000 years ago, lived mainly on fish caught from the sea, though they sometimes hunted local deer or other animals for their meat and they collected plenty of nuts and pears, too, and ate lots of seaweed with their fish. They picked sudachi fruit (like limes) and squeezed the juice over their fish. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WOMEN Other things stayed the same under the Islamic Empire as they had been before. Most girls still did not get to go to school, though some certainly did.Women still did a lot of unpaid work spinning and weaving linen and wool and cotton, cooking and cleaning, and taking care of children.. Medieval Islamic schools Invention of the spinning wheel History of cotton What about flax and linen? AFRICAN CLOTHING AND COLONIZATION African clothing and colonization: After 1500 AD, Portuguese and British ships started to sell Indian cotton cloth in Africa more cheaply than before. They used this cloth to buy people and enslave them. But Africans kept making their own cotton cloth too, switching to American cotton varieties. HISTORY OF RYE BREAD Like barley and wheat, rye’s a kind of grass that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Rye is different from the other grains mainly in that it will grow much further north, in colder climates, and in poorer soils. So people who lived further north, in Russia and Poland and northern Germany, ate a lot of rye bread.Rye bread is more chewy than wheat or barley bread, and has aSUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, byhis
THE CRAB AND THE CRANE Cite this page: Carr, K.E. The Crab and the Crane – Jataka Tales. Quatr.us Study Guides, July 20, 2017. Web. May 26, 2021.PELIAS AND MEDEA
When Jason and Medea got home with the Golden Fleece, the bad king Pelias still didn’t want to hand over power to his nephew.So Medea thought up a great magic plan to get rid of Pelias. She told Pelias’ daughters she could make him young again with her magic. BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY A famous Br’er Rabbit story. This is a story about Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox. Br’er Fox was sick and tired of Bre’r Rabbit tricking him. He decided to settle Br’er Rabbit for good.AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
After the war, presidents continued to spend the income tax money both on welfare and Social Security and on bigger and bigger weapons. By the 1960s, President Johnson and others extended this Progressive view to protect the rights, first of black men (the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965), and then of women (for instance, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 WHAT IS TRAVERTINE? HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE Is travertine marble? Travertine is a kind of sedimentary stone that is common in Italy. Like marble, travertine is a form of limestone.But travertine and marble are not the same thing. Compressed limestone. When limestone is put under a lot of pressure for a long time (thousands of years), it can turn into travertine, the way peat turns into coal.If the travertine is left under pressure for WHAT IS ZERO? ZERO AND PLACE VALUE How can you add big numbers without an abacus?You still group the sheep (or whatever) just as you did when you were using the abacus, but now you write the numbers down using place values, so that your hundreds are all underneath your other hundreds, your tens are underneath your other tens, and your ones are underneath each other too. But suppose when you group your sheep, there aren’t anySUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). CARGO SHIPS IN ANCIENT GREECE Many Greek men were traders, who sold things from one place to people who lived some place else.Greek traders sailed all around the Mediterranean Sea, from Spain to Phoenicia and from Carthage to Egypt and Italy, and to Greece of course.These traders travelled in cargo ships. Cargo ships could carry a lot of stuff, but they didn’t gofast like triremes.
MOSQUES - MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - QUATR.US STUDY What is a mosque? A mosque (MAH-SK) is a kind of building where people who follow the Islamic faith pray to God.. Mosque history. People first built mosques in the 600s AD, when the Arabs conquered Jerusalem and other parts of West Asia.The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the earliest mosques. It stands on the place where the JewishTemple once was.
EARLY CHEROKEE CLOTHING Like most people, Cherokee people used their clothing and hairstyles to show that they were Cherokee and different from their neighbors. Who were the Cherokee? Native American clothing All our Native American articles. What made Cherokee men look different from other people living in North America at this time was their haircuts. Cherokee men shaved most of their hair off and just had one GREEK HOPLITES AND DEMOCRACY Mercenary soldiers. In addition, the hoplite phalanx made Greek soldiers very good fighters, so that richer countries, like Lydia, the Persian Empire, and Egypt, wanted to hire them as mercenaries for the next several hundred years. Mercenary soldiers The Lydians Egypt under the Persians The Persian Empire. Those well-paid soldiers brought a lot of money back to Greece.ATREUS AND THYESTES
Atreus’ sacrifice. One day, Atreus promised to sacrifice the best lamb in his flock to the goddess Artemis. History of sheep What is a sacrifice? Who is Artemis? Later that afternoon, as he went walking among his sheep, Atreus found a lamb with a golden fleece! Certainly he should have sacrificed that one to Artemis, but he didn’t want to sacrifice such a beautiful thing, so he killed the ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived mostly in southern Canada and upstate New York. When European traders arrived, the Algonquin sold them beaver furs. But they caught smallpox, and many of them died. Slowly the British forced them on to reservations. HISTORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Playing a Chinese qin. The first stringed instruments. The earliest stringed instruments may have come from West Asia, where the Sumerians built thin lyres as early as 3000 BC. By 2500 BC people in northern Syria were also playing lyres, and by about 1900 BC, in the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian musicians had also learned to play the lyre, though lyres did not become common in Egypt until the RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
AFRICAN CLOTHING AND COLONIZATION African clothing and colonization: After 1500 AD, Portuguese and British ships started to sell Indian cotton cloth in Africa more cheaply than before. They used this cloth to buy people and enslave them. But Africans kept making their own cotton cloth too, switching to American cotton varieties. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WOMEN Other things stayed the same under the Islamic Empire as they had been before. Most girls still did not get to go to school, though some certainly did. Women still did a lot of unpaid work spinning and weaving linen and wool and cotton , cooking and cleaning, and taking care of children. Medieval Islamic schools. Invention of the spinningwheel.
JAPANESE FOOD HISTORY Food in Stone Age Japan. The very earliest people who lived in Japan, starting about 40,000 years ago, lived mainly on fish caught from the sea, though they sometimes hunted local deer or other animals for their meat and they collected plenty of nuts and pears, too, and ate lots of seaweed with their fish. They picked sudachi fruit (like limes) and squeezed the juice over their fish.PELIAS AND MEDEA
Pelias and Medea – After the Golden Fleece. Medea makes the old ram young again (Athens, 400s BC) When Jason and Medea got home with the Golden Fleece, the bad king Pelias still didn’t want to hand over power to his nephew. So Medea thought up a great magic plan to get rid of Pelias. She told Pelias’ daughters she could make him young HISTORY OF RYE BREAD Like barley and wheat, rye’s a kind of grass that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Rye is different from the other grains mainly in that it will grow much further north, in colder climates, and in poorer soils. So people who lived further north, in Russia and Poland and northern Germany, ate a lot of rye bread.Rye bread is more chewy than wheat or barley bread, and has a THE CRAB AND THE CRANE Two can play at that game! “Sure,” said Crab, “Thanks! I’d love a ride to the new pond. But not in your beak; I’m too heavy for that. I’ll ride on your neck and hold on with my claws.”. Crane never thought anyone could trick him. He carried Crab on his neck, but when they got to the new pond, Crab immediately pinched right throughSUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY But the Tar Baby, he kept quiet, and Br’er Fox, he lay low. So Br’er Rabbit punched the Tar Baby in the head. Blam! His fist stuck tight to the Tar Baby’s head and he could not get loose. Bre’r Rabbit hit the Tar Baby with the other hand, and then that hand got stuck too. Bre’r Rabbit kicked the Tar Baby with his feet, and thenall of
HISTORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Playing a Chinese qin. The first stringed instruments. The earliest stringed instruments may have come from West Asia, where the Sumerians built thin lyres as early as 3000 BC. By 2500 BC people in northern Syria were also playing lyres, and by about 1900 BC, in the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian musicians had also learned to play the lyre, though lyres did not become common in Egypt until the RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
AFRICAN CLOTHING AND COLONIZATION African clothing and colonization: After 1500 AD, Portuguese and British ships started to sell Indian cotton cloth in Africa more cheaply than before. They used this cloth to buy people and enslave them. But Africans kept making their own cotton cloth too, switching to American cotton varieties. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WOMEN Other things stayed the same under the Islamic Empire as they had been before. Most girls still did not get to go to school, though some certainly did. Women still did a lot of unpaid work spinning and weaving linen and wool and cotton , cooking and cleaning, and taking care of children. Medieval Islamic schools. Invention of the spinningwheel.
JAPANESE FOOD HISTORY Food in Stone Age Japan. The very earliest people who lived in Japan, starting about 40,000 years ago, lived mainly on fish caught from the sea, though they sometimes hunted local deer or other animals for their meat and they collected plenty of nuts and pears, too, and ate lots of seaweed with their fish. They picked sudachi fruit (like limes) and squeezed the juice over their fish.PELIAS AND MEDEA
Pelias and Medea – After the Golden Fleece. Medea makes the old ram young again (Athens, 400s BC) When Jason and Medea got home with the Golden Fleece, the bad king Pelias still didn’t want to hand over power to his nephew. So Medea thought up a great magic plan to get rid of Pelias. She told Pelias’ daughters she could make him young HISTORY OF RYE BREAD Like barley and wheat, rye’s a kind of grass that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Rye is different from the other grains mainly in that it will grow much further north, in colder climates, and in poorer soils. So people who lived further north, in Russia and Poland and northern Germany, ate a lot of rye bread.Rye bread is more chewy than wheat or barley bread, and has a THE CRAB AND THE CRANE Two can play at that game! “Sure,” said Crab, “Thanks! I’d love a ride to the new pond. But not in your beak; I’m too heavy for that. I’ll ride on your neck and hold on with my claws.”. Crane never thought anyone could trick him. He carried Crab on his neck, but when they got to the new pond, Crab immediately pinched right throughSUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY But the Tar Baby, he kept quiet, and Br’er Fox, he lay low. So Br’er Rabbit punched the Tar Baby in the head. Blam! His fist stuck tight to the Tar Baby’s head and he could not get loose. Bre’r Rabbit hit the Tar Baby with the other hand, and then that hand got stuck too. Bre’r Rabbit kicked the Tar Baby with his feet, and thenall of
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
American government – the 1900s. The United States government got even more power during the 1900s. In 1913, the United States government got the right to collect income tax. With this new tax, the United States government got a lot more money, and it used that money to get more power over the states. During the Depression, in the1930s, for
WHAT IS ZERO? ZERO AND PLACE VALUE You can use zero to mark your place, keeping your hundreds all lined up with your hundreds and your ones all lined up with your ones. It doesn’t matter what order you put your addition problem in: 5 + 2 is always the same as 2 + 5, and 256 + 672 is always the same as 672 + 226. Using place values to add the numbers will still work.SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). EARLY CHEROKEE CLOTHING Men’s clothes and women’s clothes. In summer, Cherokee women wore skirts down just below their knees, sometimes made of deerskin or by sewing together smaller rabbit skins, and sometimes woven out of bark strips or hemp. Men wore shorts and long shirts made out of deerskin that came down past the top of their high boots.ATREUS AND THYESTES
Atreus and Thyestes make a deal. But Atreus’ wife, the Queen, was secretly in love with Thyestes. She agreed to steal the golden lambskin and give it to Thyestes. Then Thyestes dared Atreus to make a deal with him. He said, “Let’s say whoever has the golden sheepskin can be King of Mycenae.”. Well Atreus knew that he had itin his box
MOSQUES - MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - QUATR.US STUDY What is a mosque? A mosque (MAH-SK) is a kind of building where people who follow the Islamic faith pray to God.. Mosque history. People first built mosques in the 600s AD, when the Arabs conquered Jerusalem and other parts of West Asia.The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the earliest mosques. It stands on the place where the JewishTemple once was.
WHAT IS TRAVERTINE? HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE Is travertine marble? Travertine is a kind of sedimentary stone that is common in Italy. Like marble, travertine is a form of limestone.But travertine and marble are not the same thing. Compressed limestone. When limestone is put under a lot of pressure for a long time (thousands of years), it can turn into travertine, the way peat turns into coal.If the travertine is left under pressure for GREEK HOPLITES AND DEMOCRACY Mercenary soldiers. In addition, the hoplite phalanx made Greek soldiers very good fighters, so that richer countries, like Lydia, the Persian Empire, and Egypt, wanted to hire them as mercenaries for the next several hundred years. Mercenary soldiers The Lydians Egypt under the Persians The Persian Empire. Those well-paid soldiers brought a lot of money back to Greece. ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived in southern Canada and upstate New York. As a result, the Algonquin seem to have pushed the Iroquois further south and forced them to pay tribute. The Algonquin probably controlled land as far south as the upper Hudson river valley (in modern New York State). In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the TANTALUS' CRIME AND PUNISHMENT For this crime, Zeus himself killed Tantalus, and Tantalus had to spend his whole afterlife in the underworld, Hades. His torture was that he had to stand forever waist-deep in a pool of water, with a fruit tree dangling branches full of ripe fruit over his head. He got terribly hungry and thirsty, but whenever he bent down to drink thewater
HISTORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS The earliest stringed instruments may have come from West Asia, where the Sumerians built thin lyres as early as 3000 BC. By 2500 BC people in northern Syria were also playing lyres, and by about 1900 BC, in the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian musicians had also learned to play the lyre, though lyres did not become common in Egypt until the New RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
AFRICAN CLOTHING AND COLONIZATION African clothing and colonization: After 1500 AD, Portuguese and British ships started to sell Indian cotton cloth in Africa more cheaply than before. They used this cloth to buy people and enslave them. But Africans kept making their own cotton cloth too, switching to American cotton varieties. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WOMEN Other things stayed the same under the Islamic Empire as they had been before. Most girls still did not get to go to school, though some certainly did. Women still did a lot of unpaid work spinning and weaving linen and wool and cotton , cooking and cleaning, and taking care of children. Medieval Islamic schools. Invention of the spinningwheel.
JAPANESE FOOD HISTORY Food in Stone Age Japan. The very earliest people who lived in Japan, starting about 40,000 years ago, lived mainly on fish caught from the sea, though they sometimes hunted local deer or other animals for their meat and they collected plenty of nuts and pears, too, and ate lots of seaweed with their fish. They picked sudachi fruit (like limes) and squeezed the juice over their fish.PELIAS AND MEDEA
Pelias and Medea – After the Golden Fleece. Medea makes the old ram young again (Athens, 400s BC) When Jason and Medea got home with the Golden Fleece, the bad king Pelias still didn’t want to hand over power to his nephew. So Medea thought up a great magic plan to get rid of Pelias. She told Pelias’ daughters she could make him young HISTORY OF RYE BREAD Like barley and wheat, rye’s a kind of grass that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Rye is different from the other grains mainly in that it will grow much further north, in colder climates, and in poorer soils. So people who lived further north, in Russia and Poland and northern Germany, ate a lot of rye bread.Rye bread is more chewy than wheat or barley bread, and has a THE CRAB AND THE CRANE Two can play at that game! “Sure,” said Crab, “Thanks! I’d love a ride to the new pond. But not in your beak; I’m too heavy for that. I’ll ride on your neck and hold on with my claws.”. Crane never thought anyone could trick him. He carried Crab on his neck, but when they got to the new pond, Crab immediately pinched right throughSUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY But the Tar Baby, he kept quiet, and Br’er Fox, he lay low. So Br’er Rabbit punched the Tar Baby in the head. Blam! His fist stuck tight to the Tar Baby’s head and he could not get loose. Bre’r Rabbit hit the Tar Baby with the other hand, and then that hand got stuck too. Bre’r Rabbit kicked the Tar Baby with his feet, and thenall of
HISTORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS The earliest stringed instruments may have come from West Asia, where the Sumerians built thin lyres as early as 3000 BC. By 2500 BC people in northern Syria were also playing lyres, and by about 1900 BC, in the Middle Kingdom, Egyptian musicians had also learned to play the lyre, though lyres did not become common in Egypt until the New RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
AFRICAN CLOTHING AND COLONIZATION African clothing and colonization: After 1500 AD, Portuguese and British ships started to sell Indian cotton cloth in Africa more cheaply than before. They used this cloth to buy people and enslave them. But Africans kept making their own cotton cloth too, switching to American cotton varieties. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WOMEN Other things stayed the same under the Islamic Empire as they had been before. Most girls still did not get to go to school, though some certainly did. Women still did a lot of unpaid work spinning and weaving linen and wool and cotton , cooking and cleaning, and taking care of children. Medieval Islamic schools. Invention of the spinningwheel.
JAPANESE FOOD HISTORY Food in Stone Age Japan. The very earliest people who lived in Japan, starting about 40,000 years ago, lived mainly on fish caught from the sea, though they sometimes hunted local deer or other animals for their meat and they collected plenty of nuts and pears, too, and ate lots of seaweed with their fish. They picked sudachi fruit (like limes) and squeezed the juice over their fish.PELIAS AND MEDEA
Pelias and Medea – After the Golden Fleece. Medea makes the old ram young again (Athens, 400s BC) When Jason and Medea got home with the Golden Fleece, the bad king Pelias still didn’t want to hand over power to his nephew. So Medea thought up a great magic plan to get rid of Pelias. She told Pelias’ daughters she could make him young HISTORY OF RYE BREAD Like barley and wheat, rye’s a kind of grass that is a good source of carbohydrates for people. Rye is different from the other grains mainly in that it will grow much further north, in colder climates, and in poorer soils. So people who lived further north, in Russia and Poland and northern Germany, ate a lot of rye bread.Rye bread is more chewy than wheat or barley bread, and has a THE CRAB AND THE CRANE Two can play at that game! “Sure,” said Crab, “Thanks! I’d love a ride to the new pond. But not in your beak; I’m too heavy for that. I’ll ride on your neck and hold on with my claws.”. Crane never thought anyone could trick him. He carried Crab on his neck, but when they got to the new pond, Crab immediately pinched right throughSUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY But the Tar Baby, he kept quiet, and Br’er Fox, he lay low. So Br’er Rabbit punched the Tar Baby in the head. Blam! His fist stuck tight to the Tar Baby’s head and he could not get loose. Bre’r Rabbit hit the Tar Baby with the other hand, and then that hand got stuck too. Bre’r Rabbit kicked the Tar Baby with his feet, and thenall of
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
American government – the 1900s. The United States government got even more power during the 1900s. In 1913, the United States government got the right to collect income tax. With this new tax, the United States government got a lot more money, and it used that money to get more power over the states. During the Depression, in the1930s, for
WHAT IS ZERO? ZERO AND PLACE VALUE You can use zero to mark your place, keeping your hundreds all lined up with your hundreds and your ones all lined up with your ones. It doesn’t matter what order you put your addition problem in: 5 + 2 is always the same as 2 + 5, and 256 + 672 is always the same as 672 + 226. Using place values to add the numbers will still work.SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). EARLY CHEROKEE CLOTHING Men’s clothes and women’s clothes. In summer, Cherokee women wore skirts down just below their knees, sometimes made of deerskin or by sewing together smaller rabbit skins, and sometimes woven out of bark strips or hemp. Men wore shorts and long shirts made out of deerskin that came down past the top of their high boots.ATREUS AND THYESTES
Atreus and Thyestes make a deal. But Atreus’ wife, the Queen, was secretly in love with Thyestes. She agreed to steal the golden lambskin and give it to Thyestes. Then Thyestes dared Atreus to make a deal with him. He said, “Let’s say whoever has the golden sheepskin can be King of Mycenae.”. Well Atreus knew that he had itin his box
MOSQUES - MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - QUATR.US STUDY What is a mosque? A mosque (MAH-SK) is a kind of building where people who follow the Islamic faith pray to God.. Mosque history. People first built mosques in the 600s AD, when the Arabs conquered Jerusalem and other parts of West Asia.The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is one of the earliest mosques. It stands on the place where the JewishTemple once was.
WHAT IS TRAVERTINE? HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE Is travertine marble? Travertine is a kind of sedimentary stone that is common in Italy. Like marble, travertine is a form of limestone.But travertine and marble are not the same thing. Compressed limestone. When limestone is put under a lot of pressure for a long time (thousands of years), it can turn into travertine, the way peat turns into coal.If the travertine is left under pressure for GREEK HOPLITES AND DEMOCRACY Mercenary soldiers. In addition, the hoplite phalanx made Greek soldiers very good fighters, so that richer countries, like Lydia, the Persian Empire, and Egypt, wanted to hire them as mercenaries for the next several hundred years. Mercenary soldiers The Lydians Egypt under the Persians The Persian Empire. Those well-paid soldiers brought a lot of money back to Greece. ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived in southern Canada and upstate New York. As a result, the Algonquin seem to have pushed the Iroquois further south and forced them to pay tribute. The Algonquin probably controlled land as far south as the upper Hudson river valley (in modern New York State). In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the TANTALUS' CRIME AND PUNISHMENT For this crime, Zeus himself killed Tantalus, and Tantalus had to spend his whole afterlife in the underworld, Hades. His torture was that he had to stand forever waist-deep in a pool of water, with a fruit tree dangling branches full of ripe fruit over his head. He got terribly hungry and thirsty, but whenever he bent down to drink thewater
ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived in southern Canada and upstate New York. As a result, the Algonquin seem to have pushed the Iroquois further south and forced them to pay tribute. The Algonquin probably controlled land as far south as the upper Hudson river valley (in modern New York State). In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
TANTALUS' CRIME AND PUNISHMENT For this crime, Zeus himself killed Tantalus, and Tantalus had to spend his whole afterlife in the underworld, Hades. His torture was that he had to stand forever waist-deep in a pool of water, with a fruit tree dangling branches full of ripe fruit over his head. He got terribly hungry and thirsty, but whenever he bent down to drink thewater
WHO INVENTED TAXES? HISTORY OF TAXES A Roman historian called Ammianus Marcellinus wrote in the 300s AD about Roman soldiers whipping Egyptian farmers to make them tell where they had hidden their stuff (in caves outside their village). History of taxes: A Chinese tax collector sits at a small table just inside the city gate (Qingming Festival, Zhang Zeduan, Song Dynasty China) Or THE ISLAMIC STORY OF WHEAT ON THE CHESSBOARD Everything went well for a while, but the king was surprised to see that by the time they got halfway through the chessboard the 32nd square required more than four billion grains of wheat, or about 100,000 kilos of wheat. Now Sissa didn’t seem so stupid anymore. Even so, King Shihram was willing to pay up. But as the enslavedservants began
ANCIENT INDIAN CLOTHING: WHAT DID PEOPLE WEAR IN ANCIENT Ancient Indian clothing: the cotton dhoti. People in India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where people grew cotton, even as early as 5000 BC in the Stone Age.Men wore dhoti, a cloth wrapped around their waists and knotted at the back.Some men also wore turbans on their heads; many men wore man-buns and kept their beardsshort or shaved.
AFRICAN FOOD
Teff, millet, barley and beer. Around 6000 BC, as the climate changed and the Sahara Desert gradually took over the grasslands, it got harder to get food and so some African people began to farm some of their food. By 4000 BC, people in Ethiopia, and Eretria had domesticated a grain called teff, and in Sudan people had domesticatedmillet and
SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean).INDIAN FOOD HISTORY
Indian food includes a lot of foods native to India, like cinnamon and cumin, but also a lot of foods that came to India from other places - beef, chicken, lentils, chickpeas, wheat, and rice. Find out about Indian food history.MENELAUS AND HELEN
Menelaus carrying Patroclos’ body (Roman copy of a Greek statue, now in Florence) During the Trojan War, Menelaus fought bravely. It was Menelaus who brought Patroclus ‘ body back to Achilles after Patroclos was killed. Menelaus was a good and honorable fighter, buthe
ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived in southern Canada and upstate New York. As a result, the Algonquin seem to have pushed the Iroquois further south and forced them to pay tribute. The Algonquin probably controlled land as far south as the upper Hudson river valley (in modern New York State). In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
TANTALUS' CRIME AND PUNISHMENT For this crime, Zeus himself killed Tantalus, and Tantalus had to spend his whole afterlife in the underworld, Hades. His torture was that he had to stand forever waist-deep in a pool of water, with a fruit tree dangling branches full of ripe fruit over his head. He got terribly hungry and thirsty, but whenever he bent down to drink thewater
WHO INVENTED TAXES? HISTORY OF TAXES A Roman historian called Ammianus Marcellinus wrote in the 300s AD about Roman soldiers whipping Egyptian farmers to make them tell where they had hidden their stuff (in caves outside their village). History of taxes: A Chinese tax collector sits at a small table just inside the city gate (Qingming Festival, Zhang Zeduan, Song Dynasty China) Or THE ISLAMIC STORY OF WHEAT ON THE CHESSBOARD Everything went well for a while, but the king was surprised to see that by the time they got halfway through the chessboard the 32nd square required more than four billion grains of wheat, or about 100,000 kilos of wheat. Now Sissa didn’t seem so stupid anymore. Even so, King Shihram was willing to pay up. But as the enslavedservants began
ANCIENT INDIAN CLOTHING: WHAT DID PEOPLE WEAR IN ANCIENT Ancient Indian clothing: the cotton dhoti. People in India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where people grew cotton, even as early as 5000 BC in the Stone Age.Men wore dhoti, a cloth wrapped around their waists and knotted at the back.Some men also wore turbans on their heads; many men wore man-buns and kept their beardsshort or shaved.
AFRICAN FOOD
Teff, millet, barley and beer. Around 6000 BC, as the climate changed and the Sahara Desert gradually took over the grasslands, it got harder to get food and so some African people began to farm some of their food. By 4000 BC, people in Ethiopia, and Eretria had domesticated a grain called teff, and in Sudan people had domesticatedmillet and
SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean).INDIAN FOOD HISTORY
Indian food includes a lot of foods native to India, like cinnamon and cumin, but also a lot of foods that came to India from other places - beef, chicken, lentils, chickpeas, wheat, and rice. Find out about Indian food history.MENELAUS AND HELEN
Menelaus carrying Patroclos’ body (Roman copy of a Greek statue, now in Florence) During the Trojan War, Menelaus fought bravely. It was Menelaus who brought Patroclus ‘ body back to Achilles after Patroclos was killed. Menelaus was a good and honorable fighter, buthe
EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN ECONOMY Fishing and gathering food. When people first came to North America, maybe about 15,000 BC, they were probably mostly following the fish along the coast, and fishing is what they spent most of their time doing.. History of fishing First people in the Americas Lots more Native American articles. In California, and along the East Coast, people like the Iroquois also gathered acorns and crushed HOUSES IN ANCIENT GREECE Greek houses and Greek weather. This is a good layout for hot, sunny places where heating your house isn’t so important but cooling it is. People also slept and worked up on top of the flat roof. It was usually pretty hot in Greece, so this was fine most of the year. In the winter, ancient Greek people heated their houses with charcoalbraziers.
ANCIENT GREEK WEATHER Most of the time in Southern Greece it would be in the 50s during the winter (about 10 degrees Celsius). You would need a cloak to be comfortable outside, but you wouldn’t need mittens. In Northern Greece, it would be colder, and there would probably be snow several times in a winter, though you wouldn’t have snow on the groundcontinuously
SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). WHAT IS TRAVERTINE? HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE Is travertine marble? Travertine is a kind of sedimentary stone that is common in Italy. Like marble, travertine is a form of limestone.But travertine and marble are not the same thing. Compressed limestone. When limestone is put under a lot of pressure for a long time (thousands of years), it can turn into travertine, the way peat turns into coal.If the travertine is left under pressure for ANCIENT INDIAN CLOTHING: WHAT DID PEOPLE WEAR IN ANCIENT Ancient Indian clothing: the cotton dhoti. People in India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where people grew cotton, even as early as 5000 BC in the Stone Age.Men wore dhoti, a cloth wrapped around their waists and knotted at the back.Some men also wore turbans on their heads; many men wore man-buns and kept their beardsshort or shaved.
WHO INVENTED TAXES? HISTORY OF TAXES A Roman historian called Ammianus Marcellinus wrote in the 300s AD about Roman soldiers whipping Egyptian farmers to make them tell where they had hidden their stuff (in caves outside their village). History of taxes: A Chinese tax collector sits at a small table just inside the city gate (Qingming Festival, Zhang Zeduan, Song Dynasty China) OrINDIAN FOOD HISTORY
Indian food includes a lot of foods native to India, like cinnamon and cumin, but also a lot of foods that came to India from other places - beef, chicken, lentils, chickpeas, wheat, and rice. Find out about Indian food history. MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WOMEN Other things stayed the same under the Islamic Empire as they had been before. Most girls still did not get to go to school, though some certainly did. Women still did a lot of unpaid work spinning and weaving linen and wool and cotton , cooking and cleaning, and taking care of children. Medieval Islamic schools. Invention of the spinningwheel.
SHIPS AND SAILING IN ANCIENT AFRICA Early boats: African people invented the first boats, and probably the first sails too. Later on, they pioneered sailing around Africa and out into the Atlantic Ocean. In the Hellenistic period, African sailors discovered new sailing routes to India, and East African portsbecame important.
TANTALUS' CRIME AND PUNISHMENT For this crime, Zeus himself killed Tantalus, and Tantalus had to spend his whole afterlife in the underworld, Hades. His torture was that he had to stand forever waist-deep in a pool of water, with a fruit tree dangling branches full of ripe fruit over his head. He got terribly hungry and thirsty, but whenever he bent down to drink thewater
WHO INVENTED TAXES? HISTORY OF TAXES A Roman historian called Ammianus Marcellinus wrote in the 300s AD about Roman soldiers whipping Egyptian farmers to make them tell where they had hidden their stuff (in caves outside their village). History of taxes: A Chinese tax collector sits at a small table just inside the city gate (Qingming Festival, Zhang Zeduan, Song Dynasty China) Or ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived in southern Canada and upstate New York. As a result, the Algonquin seem to have pushed the Iroquois further south and forced them to pay tribute. The Algonquin probably controlled land as far south as the upper Hudson river valley (in modern New York State). In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the ANCIENT INDIAN CLOTHING: WHAT DID PEOPLE WEAR IN ANCIENT Ancient Indian clothing: the cotton dhoti. People in India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where people grew cotton, even as early as 5000 BC in the Stone Age.Men wore dhoti, a cloth wrapped around their waists and knotted at the back.Some men also wore turbans on their heads; many men wore man-buns and kept their beardsshort or shaved.
AFRICAN FOOD
Teff, millet, barley and beer. Around 6000 BC, as the climate changed and the Sahara Desert gradually took over the grasslands, it got harder to get food and so some African people began to farm some of their food. By 4000 BC, people in Ethiopia, and Eretria had domesticated a grain called teff, and in Sudan people had domesticatedmillet and
INDIAN FOOD HISTORY
Indian food includes a lot of foods native to India, like cinnamon and cumin, but also a lot of foods that came to India from other places - beef, chicken, lentils, chickpeas, wheat, and rice. Find out about Indian food history. THE ISLAMIC STORY OF WHEAT ON THE CHESSBOARD Everything went well for a while, but the king was surprised to see that by the time they got halfway through the chessboard the 32nd square required more than four billion grains of wheat, or about 100,000 kilos of wheat. Now Sissa didn’t seem so stupid anymore. Even so, King Shihram was willing to pay up. But as the enslavedservants began
SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
MENELAUS AND HELEN
Menelaus carrying Patroclos’ body (Roman copy of a Greek statue, now in Florence) During the Trojan War, Menelaus fought bravely. It was Menelaus who brought Patroclus ‘ body back to Achilles after Patroclos was killed. Menelaus was a good and honorable fighter, buthe
TANTALUS' CRIME AND PUNISHMENT For this crime, Zeus himself killed Tantalus, and Tantalus had to spend his whole afterlife in the underworld, Hades. His torture was that he had to stand forever waist-deep in a pool of water, with a fruit tree dangling branches full of ripe fruit over his head. He got terribly hungry and thirsty, but whenever he bent down to drink thewater
WHO INVENTED TAXES? HISTORY OF TAXES A Roman historian called Ammianus Marcellinus wrote in the 300s AD about Roman soldiers whipping Egyptian farmers to make them tell where they had hidden their stuff (in caves outside their village). History of taxes: A Chinese tax collector sits at a small table just inside the city gate (Qingming Festival, Zhang Zeduan, Song Dynasty China) Or ALGONQUIN TRIBE DURING EUROPEAN COLONIZATION The Algonquin tribe lived in southern Canada and upstate New York. As a result, the Algonquin seem to have pushed the Iroquois further south and forced them to pay tribute. The Algonquin probably controlled land as far south as the upper Hudson river valley (in modern New York State). In 1570, the Algonquins formed an alliance with the ANCIENT INDIAN CLOTHING: WHAT DID PEOPLE WEAR IN ANCIENT Ancient Indian clothing: the cotton dhoti. People in India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where people grew cotton, even as early as 5000 BC in the Stone Age.Men wore dhoti, a cloth wrapped around their waists and knotted at the back.Some men also wore turbans on their heads; many men wore man-buns and kept their beardsshort or shaved.
AFRICAN FOOD
Teff, millet, barley and beer. Around 6000 BC, as the climate changed and the Sahara Desert gradually took over the grasslands, it got harder to get food and so some African people began to farm some of their food. By 4000 BC, people in Ethiopia, and Eretria had domesticated a grain called teff, and in Sudan people had domesticatedmillet and
INDIAN FOOD HISTORY
Indian food includes a lot of foods native to India, like cinnamon and cumin, but also a lot of foods that came to India from other places - beef, chicken, lentils, chickpeas, wheat, and rice. Find out about Indian food history. THE ISLAMIC STORY OF WHEAT ON THE CHESSBOARD Everything went well for a while, but the king was surprised to see that by the time they got halfway through the chessboard the 32nd square required more than four billion grains of wheat, or about 100,000 kilos of wheat. Now Sissa didn’t seem so stupid anymore. Even so, King Shihram was willing to pay up. But as the enslavedservants began
SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
MENELAUS AND HELEN
Menelaus carrying Patroclos’ body (Roman copy of a Greek statue, now in Florence) During the Trojan War, Menelaus fought bravely. It was Menelaus who brought Patroclus ‘ body back to Achilles after Patroclos was killed. Menelaus was a good and honorable fighter, buthe
ANCIENT INDIAN CLOTHING: WHAT DID PEOPLE WEAR IN ANCIENT Ancient Indian clothing: the cotton dhoti. People in India wore mostly cotton clothing. India was the first place where people grew cotton, even as early as 5000 BC in the Stone Age.Men wore dhoti, a cloth wrapped around their waists and knotted at the back.Some men also wore turbans on their heads; many men wore man-buns and kept their beardsshort or shaved.
HOUSES IN ANCIENT GREECE Greek houses and Greek weather. This is a good layout for hot, sunny places where heating your house isn’t so important but cooling it is. People also slept and worked up on top of the flat roof. It was usually pretty hot in Greece, so this was fine most of the year. In the winter, ancient Greek people heated their houses with charcoalbraziers.
ANCIENT GREEK WEATHER Most of the time in Southern Greece it would be in the 50s during the winter (about 10 degrees Celsius). You would need a cloak to be comfortable outside, but you wouldn’t need mittens. In Northern Greece, it would be colder, and there would probably be snow several times in a winter, though you wouldn’t have snow on the groundcontinuously
SUCCOTASH RECIPE
You may like pemmican better, but most Native American people ate more succotash:. Husk and boil three ears of corn (or use frozen corn).; Boil 1/2 cup of any kind of beans (lima beans are the most commonly used, but you could use string beans, or white beans. Or you could use black beans, or kidney beans, or any other kind of bean). EARLY NATIVE AMERICAN ECONOMY Fishing and gathering food. When people first came to North America, maybe about 15,000 BC, they were probably mostly following the fish along the coast, and fishing is what they spent most of their time doing.. History of fishing First people in the Americas Lots more Native American articles. In California, and along the East Coast, people like the Iroquois also gathered acorns and crushed WHAT DOES A.D. MEAN? The meaning of A.D. and B.C. A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for “year of our Lord,” and it means the number of years since the birth of Jesus Christ.That was a little more than 2000 years ago, so the date 500 A.D. means 500 years after 2000 years ago, or a little more than 1500 years ago. As you can see on our BC AD timeline, the years before Jesus was born are BC – Before WHO INVENTED TAXES? HISTORY OF TAXES A Roman historian called Ammianus Marcellinus wrote in the 300s AD about Roman soldiers whipping Egyptian farmers to make them tell where they had hidden their stuff (in caves outside their village). History of taxes: A Chinese tax collector sits at a small table just inside the city gate (Qingming Festival, Zhang Zeduan, Song Dynasty China) Or RUSTEM'S DEATH IN THE SHAHNAMEH Rustem kills the treacherous Shaghad. When he was an old, old man, Rustem really did die (according to the story in the Shahnameh ). Rustem died from treachery and betrayal, by his own half-brother Shaghad. One day Rustem was riding through the forest on his horse Rakhsh, when suddenly they fell into a pit. Shaghad had dug this deeppit on the
SHIPS AND SAILING IN ANCIENT AFRICA Early boats: African people invented the first boats, and probably the first sails too. Later on, they pioneered sailing around Africa and out into the Atlantic Ocean. In the Hellenistic period, African sailors discovered new sailing routes to India, and East African portsbecame important.
BR'ER RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY But the Tar Baby, he kept quiet, and Br’er Fox, he lay low. So Br’er Rabbit punched the Tar Baby in the head. Blam! His fist stuck tight to the Tar Baby’s head and he could not get loose. Bre’r Rabbit hit the Tar Baby with the other hand, and then that hand got stuck too. Bre’r Rabbit kicked the Tar Baby with his feet, and thenall of
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CONGRATULATIONS PROFESSOR HALEY! Professor Shelley Haley Delighted to announce that Shelley P. Haley has been elected to be the next president of the Society for Classical Studies. Professor Haley is the Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies and the Chair of the Classics Department at Hamilton College, in New York State. SheBy Karen Carr
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