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In this picture a man is using the most basic and helpful feature of a camel which is for cargo. Though this picture has large wheels on the camel, the function is the same. The people who used the camel did not have rivers to navigate to bring large…

In Faiyum there is a camel rope ranging from the 3rd of 4th dynasty proved that domestication of camels in Egypt. It is made out of camel hair and used as a type of rope. You can also make silk out of the camel hair which can be made in…

Maize was thought to have spread to Peru in 3000 B.C. We believe that one of the reasons that maize was brought to Peru was to help establish villages and eventually cities. With many different cities in one country there are guaranteed to be…

This is a photo of camel dung. Remains of camel dung and pieces of a mandible are the leading evidence supporting that camels were in Egypt during the Napatan period. The dung was carbon dated to 740 BC, proving that camels were there even…

These stones are estimated to be 8,700 years old. This is around the time the National Science Foundation argues that natives in southwestern Mexico started to cultivate maize. These milling stones are primary evidence of this. Researchers believe…

This image is showing the difference between the thousands-of-years old plant called teosinte to modern maize. According to new research done by the National Science Foundation native people to southwestern Mexico may have been cultivating maize more…

We chose this picture of an old "Basket Maker" sign because it represents the maize found in a Basket Makers shop in 623 A.D. A cob of corn was found in a pocket on the floor level at the end of a bench in a basket maker's shop. It was found in the…

This tapestry depicts the silk road from a Chinese point of view, with what appear to be Europeans coming from the left of the picture, likely intended to be the west, and what look like Chinese merchants leaving the city in the bottom right corner…

Maize has become one of the largest crops in the world. It is looked at as a major food source as well as an economic force. It is now being looked at for a source of reusable energy and has even found its way into our lives through candy. This…

In this image we see a map of the Silk Road, the major trade route of antiquity. This trade route brought not only silk, but also spices, ceramics, and, perhaps most importantly, Eastern/Southern Asian culture to the Middle East and eventually into…