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                                            THE SILK ROAD The silk road was not a road it was a network of trade routes.   It reshaped the lives of everyone, people exchanging ideas, products, drugs, spices, trade offered a way to meet their wives, husbands, and by this it helped to expand the family unit as well as the cities.   Trade connections were made between Africa, Eurasia, Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia and China.   Silk was only found in China and was a highly guarded secret. China spun the silk from the cocoons of worms that feed on the mulberry trees. Silk was a sign of the elite and the elite finally had something to spend their money on.   Silk kept them cool in the summer and warm in the winter.   You could call this the bli...

                                                HINDUISM & HISTORY I was reading about this religion it was interesting.   This religion is a very unique religion and one of the oldest.    There is no start date that they can identify.   Although archaeologists uncovered evidence of an ancient civilization near the Indus River valley in 1921. Which showed evidence of the practice of Hinduism like items such as terracotta figures that may represent deities along with baths .   They call this civilization Harappan it originated as early as 7000 BC to about 2300 BC, the land along the river was used to trade with Mesopotamia.     Hinduism is a very basic simple India religion.   They believe until recently It ha...

Hi Everyone, I was just wondering how the first person figured out how to grow plants for food.  Did early civilization see a small little growth in the dirt and watched it grow daily into a plant when water such as rain was added? Did early civilization figure it out that the little plant would sustain life?  And which ones would not kill them?  When did early civilization figured out that the plant would grow back after it was cut or harvested with the first rains? I guess in their dyer need not to starve they had to try lots of different plants and berries to find out what was good and what was bad to eat.  I believe they watch the animals and if it ate the plant or berries and lived they would try it and if it did not make them sick they would add it to there diet. In reading about the first form of agriculture the consciences is that over a long time the people who first observed the plants gro...