Saying that is based on opinion and assumptions, so here’s the proof an amateur historian, found detailed maps, logs and accounts of voyages to the Americas in the early 1400’s. Others have found similar pieces that show Chinese exploration to Africa and Arabia. In knowing this, the way we are taught about Columbus is false; in fact it was the Chinese that explored Latin America many years prior to the
Benjamin Franklin’s Views of Slavery 1787 Benjamin Franklin was a lot of things an inventor, writer, scientist, & politician. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 17, 1706. He was one of ten children and a son of a soap and candlestick maker. Growing up most of his education was self taught, and by the age of 10 and 12 worked for his father and for his brother who was a printer. By 1721 at the age of about 15 years he created his very own newspaper.
Early Jamestown: Why did So Many colonist Die? Have you ever heard of the colony “Early Jamestown?” If you never heard of the colony or you don’t really know anything about it, then here’s some background information. In May 1607, roughly 110 English men arrived on the coast of Virginia. It was to be the first permanent English colony in what is now the United States. The first couple of years were not easy for the settlers.
(Earlywine) Hemp has been cultivated world wide throughout history with the earliest use dating back more than 8000 years ago in Taiwan. Its use in ancient times was for fibers to make rope or fabric. and eventually paper. Early maritime nations depended on hemp for ropes, and canvas for the sails. King Henry the VIII once
More than 270 people had been buried in the mounds with Sun Falcon The first humans beings to arrive in the Western Hemisphere emigrated from Asia. The pyramid of the sun is one of two large pyramids in Teotihuacan dedicated to the worship of Quetzalcoatl. Teotihuacan flourished between 600-900 C.E Spanish conquistador Cortes arrived in the year that the god Quetzalcoatl had promised to return to the Aztecs, its was the end of the classic MesoAmerican civilization. The Portuguese were the first European nation to begin explorations. In an effort to find a quicker cheaper route to the riches of the East.
Watson Break Archaeological Site is the oldest known manmade structure in the entire Western Hemisphere. Carbon dating of some of the material found in the mound goes back as fare as 3500 B.C many believe that it is between 4500 and 5500 B.C. It is very impressive to me that these mounds
7. The motives behind European exploration were to find large supplies of gold, silver, and jewels. 8.Europeans owed some of their sailing technology to people because we invented navigation. Section 2 Assesment 1.Kangxi was the first Emperor and ruled for 60 years. -Qing Dynasty was a Chinese name for dynasty that ruled for 260 years.
Unlike the latter two however, Buddhism is not indigenous to China. It is a foreign import from northern India. As such it is representative of a strain in Chinese thinking that is receptive to accepting foreign ideas. (That said, some Buddhist doctrines were adapted in order to fit more successfully into the Chinese belief system.) Within five centuries of the opening of the Silk Road to Central Asia, Buddhism had become so prevalent in China that some scholars estimate as many as 90% of her population to have been converted to Buddhism.
Popular Mechanics magazine (1938) said that hemp was “the new billion dollar crop,” stating that it “can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane”(Small purdue.edu). Hemp’s most important uses come from its stalk. The fibers that are harvested from hemp’s stalk can be used to make products such as textiles, paper, building materials, and other industrial products (Roulac 15). The leaves, seeds, cell fluid, and the whole hemp plant are also used to create a large number of other products. Hemp fiber could be used to make a large variety of papers, which would help decrease the paper industries dependency on wood.
Though the earliest known print was a Chinese book titled “Diamond Sutra” created 868 A.D. and in 1041 A.D. the Chinese invented the first movable printing type, Johann Gutenberg is credited with creating the printing press with replaceable/moveable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440). It was there in 1440 that Johannes Gutenberg created his printing press, a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held within a wooden form and the form was then. This method of printing can be credited not only for a revolution in the production of books, but also for fostering rapid development in the sciences, arts and religion through the transmission of texts. In fact, Johannes Gutenberg is also accredited with printing the world's first book using movable type, the 42-line (the number of lines per page) Gutenberg Bible. The Gutenberg press- with its wooden (and later metal) movable type printing- brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses.