Chapter 24 Potato, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 24: Potato


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1. The potato was domesticated in Lake Titicaca in Peru.
2. The Classic Period of the Inca Empire was in 1438.
3. Pachacuti was the Inca Ruler known as the "earth-shaker."
4. The Inca Empire expanded to Western Coast of South America from central Chile to Colombia.
5. Francisco Pizarro landed in Ecuador in 1532.
6. Francisco Pizarro landed in Ecuador with 168 men.
7. Francisco Pizarro landed in Ecuador with 27 horses.
8. Francisco Pizarro met Atahualpa in July 1532.
9. Answers will vary
10. The potato first cultivated outside of South America in the Canary Islands.
11. The Thirty Years War was a 1618 to 1648 War between Protestant and Catholic states.
12. The Thirty Years War eventually became a conflict between the Bourbon and Habsburg Dynasties.
13. The Great Hunger was in Ireland in 1845.
14. The Irish people emigrated to Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham during the Great Hunger.
15. The Irish people emigrated to Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. during the Great Hunger.
16. "Coffin Ships" were ships carrying Irish people.
17. Late Blight is the name of the most serious disease of the potato.
18. The official name of "Late Blight" is Phytophthora Infestans.

Chapter 23 Roquefort Cheese, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 23: Roquefort Cheese


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1. Roquefort Cheese comes from Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon, France.
2. Lacaune Sheep is the name of the sheep raised in the Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon.
3. The milk from Lacaune Sheep is used to make Roquefort Cheese, which is aged for 3 months in the caves of Combalou.
4. Penicillium Roqueforti is the name of the fungus to make Roquefort Cheese.
5. Stilton Cheese and Gorgonzola Cheese use the same fungus as the Roquefort Cheese.
6. King Charles IV of France in 1411 passed a law saying that Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon is the only place that can sell cheese called Roquefort Cheese.
7. There are only 7 companies that exist in Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon that can sell cheese.
8. La Societe des Caves de Roquefort is the largest company with 70% of the Roquefort Cheese market.

Chapter 22 Turnips, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 22: Turnips


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1. The turnip was farmed as a fodder for the sheep.
2. Antwerp, a Dutch city, developed into one of the largest and wealthiest cities in Europe.
3. Crop rotation methods, new machinery, and improvements made in the breeding of livestock contributed to the British Agricultural Revolution.
4. Charles Townshend is the person who was credited with the four-course farming method.

Chapter 21 Cassoulet, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 21: Cassoulet


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1. The origin of the cassoulet is Languedoc, Southern France.
2. The language of Southern France is the Occitan Language.
3. Cacolet is the cassoulet's name in its original language.
4. Castelnaudary is the Cassoulet Capital of the World.
5. Elizabeth David wrote "French Provincial Looking."
6. The Festival of the Cassoulet was held for the first time in 1999.
7. The cassoulet was first made in Castelnaudary in 1355.
8. The Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts between the kings of England and France over possessions of large areas of French territory.
9. Edward of Woodstock was the son of English King Edward III.
10. The campaigns in Aquitaine and Languedoc were called "The Great Raid."
11. The Black Prince was Edward of Woodstock.
12. The haricot beans in the cassoulet come from the New World.
13. The Hundred Years War is remembered in Britain by the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
14. The Hundred Years War is remembered in France by Joan of Arc and the battle victories in 1429 and 1453

Chapter 20 Peking Duck, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 20: Peking Duck


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1. Peking Duck is known in China as Beijing Kaoya.
2. Yinshan Zhengyao is the name of the book of the first recording of Peking Duck.
3. "Principles of Food and Drink" is also known as Yinshan Zhengyao.
4. Hu Sihui is the name of the court dietician who wrote "Principles of Food and Drink."
5. The Peking Duck appeared in the Yuan Dynasty.
6. Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty in China.
7. Genghis Khan was Kublai Khan's grandfather.
8. The Yuan Dynasty collapsed in China in 1368.
9. The Ming Dynasty took place in China after the Yuan Dynasty.
10. Beijing means the Northern Capital.
11. The Qing Dynasty ruled after the Ming Dynasty.
12. Peking Duck is called "crispy aromatic duck" in Britain.
13. Plum sauce is hoisin sauce.

Chapter 19 Frankfurter, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 19: Frankfurter


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1. Frankfurt am Main was a commercial center in the 12th cnetury.
2. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was also known as Frederick Barbarossa.
3. The Holy Roman Empire was the successor state to the Carolingian Empire.
4. Frederick Barbarossa means Red Beard.
5. In 1372 Frankfurt was granted the Imperial Free City.
6. Imperial Free City grants the city council to elect their own leaders and govern themselves.
7. Frankfurt was the place that Emperors held their coronations and elections.
8. Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II was the first emperor to be coronated in Frankfurt to have his special sausage made to celebrate this event.
9. Hot Dogs are the names of Frankfurters in America.
10. The hot dog was first called "dachshund" in America.
11. Charles Feltman opened his operation in Coney Island in 1870.
12. The Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883.
13. The opening of a subway station in 1915 propelled Coney Island to become a busy resort.
14. Nathan Handwerker was the name of Charles Feltman's employee who opened his own hot dog stand in Coney Island.
15. Nathan Handwerker opened his hot dog stand in 1916.
16. Major League Baseball started operating in 1893.

Chapter 18 Salted Herring, Fifty Foods that Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 18: Salted Herring

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1. Salted Herring comes from the Baltic Sea, North Sea, and the North Atlantic.
2. The Hansa or Hanseatic League was a cross-border mercantile association of towns and cities.
3. Arras was the name of the French town that exported herring in the 15th century.
4. Answers will vary
5. The Falsterbo Peninsula is the southernmost tip of Sweden.
6. Lubeck was the name of the city located in the Holy Roman Empire, that is now Germany, that merchants went to the Scania Market to buy fish.
7. Lubeck was the name of the city that the merchants supplied the salt from Luneberg Salt Springs in Northern Germany.
8. True, during this time period, the fish was cheap and it became a staple of food.
9. Lubeck merchants formed trade guilds within their city.
10. Answers will vary
11. A council governed the Hanseatic League.
12. The Hansetag was the name of the party that control/governed the Hanseatic League.
13. The Hanseatic League reached its height in the 15th century.  The Hanseatic League extended from Bruges and London to the west to Novgorod in the east.
14. The Hansa merchants left their culture in the Brick Gothic Buildings in today's Luneberg region.
15. The Hanseatic League dissolved in the 1750s.
16. In 1398 the road from Luneburg to Lubeck was superseded by a canal.
17. The Luneberg Salt Works are found today in the German Salt Museum.
18. The Salted Herring is the silver of the sea.

Chapter 17 Spice, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 17: Spice

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1. Venice was the gateway for goods to be transported into central and northern Europe in the 8th century.
2. Pepper came from Malabar Coast of Southwestern India.
3. Cinnamon came from Sri Lanka.
4. Cloves came from Maluku Islands of Indonesia.
5. Nutmeg came from Banda Islands, South of Maluku.
6. Sri Lanka and Indonesia were the Spice Islands.
7. Constantinople fell in 1453.
8. Spain and Portugal tried through maritime efforts to break Venice's monopoly on the spice trade.
9. Christopher Columbus sailed west and landed on the Bahamas in 1492.
10. Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497.
11. Vasco da Gama was the first European to visit Mombasa.
12. Vasco da Gama visited Calicut in 1498.
13. Kozhikode is the Malabar Coast of India.
14. Vasco da Gama lost 2 ships in his expedition.
15. The returning ship was 60 times the cost of the expedition.
16. Portugal started settling overseas colonies first.
17. Lisbon became the main mercantile port for trade with Africa.
18. In 1500, Brazil was claimed by Pedro Alvares Cabral for Portugal.
19. Goa is the name of the first Portuguese colony in southern India.
20. In 1511 the Portuguese annex the city of Malacca on the Malay Peninsula.
21. In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan started his expedition for Spain.
22. In 1520 Ferdinand Magellan died in the Philippines.
23. In 1522 Ferdinand Magellan's voyage returned to Spain after circumnavigating the globe.
24. In 1592, Madre de Deus was the name of the ship captured by the English Royal Navy.
25. Madre de Deus was captured off the coast of Azores.
26. The ship had 1,008 tons of cargo, 476 tons of pepper, gold, silver, and jewels.
27. This cargo was worth half a million pounds.
28. In 1600 the East India Company was established.
29. The East India Company was established in London.
30. In 1602 the Dutch East India Company was established.
31. Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) is the name in Dutch of the Dutch East India Company.
32. True, The Dutch Government and English Government granted charters for these two companies to take and defend colonies.
33. True, these two companies had the power to raise armies and build fortresses if necessary.
34. True, these two companies acted like governments.
35. The Spice Wars were 60 years.
36. True, the Spice Wars took place from 1602 to 1661.
37. Batavia was the name of the Dutch East Indies capital.
38. Batavia is now Jakarta in Indonesia.
39. Malacca is the name of the area the Dutch took over on the Malay Peninsula.
40. The Treaty of Utrecht of 1661 is the Dutch keeping all the territory they gained in the East Indies.  They had to give up New Holland North of Brazil.
41. The Portuguese controlled Macau.
42. The Act of Union of 1707 was England and Scotland becoming the British.
43. The British established Hong Kong.
44. Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997.
45. Macau was returned to China in 1999.
46. Sir Stamford Raffles founded Singapore in 1819.

Chapter 16 Paella, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 16: Paella

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1. Paella is from Valencia, Spain.
2. The traditional meat in paella is meat and seafood.
3. La Albufera is in Spain.
4. The Moors entered the Iberian Peninsula in 711.
5. Tariq Ibn Ziyad led a small force of Moors into the Iberian Peninsula.
6. The Moors took about 60 years to take over the Iberian Peninsula.
7. The Kingdom of the Visigoths was in control of Portugal and Spain before the Moors took over.
8. Al-Andalus was the name of the Iberian Peninsula that the Moors took control over.
9. The Moors introduced Spain to paddy field rice growing.
10. In 750 the Umayyad Dynasty lost Damascus.
11. In 750 the Umayyad Dynasty moved their capital to Cordoba.
12. The Great Mosque of Cordoba was completed in 987.
13. In 1236 the Great Mosque of Cordoba was converted to the Cathedral of Cordoba.
14. The Moors were expelled from Spain in 1492.
15. The Moors ruled Spain for over 800 years.
16. The Reconquista of Spain was the name of the event of Christians taking back Spain.

Chapter 15 Chocolate, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 15: Chocolate


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1. Maya Gold comes from the Toledo region of southern Belize.
2. The Classical Mayan period was 400 CE.
3. The cacao tree is native to Central America.
4. Chocolate comes from seeds or cocoa beans.
5. The Olmecs domesticated the cacao tree.
6. The Mayans used cocoa beans instead of gold for currency.
7. Christopher Columbus encountered cocoa beans on his 3rd voyage in 1502.
8. The capital of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan.
9. Mexico City in 1502 was called Tenochtitlan.
10. Spain introduced chocolate to Europe.
11. Spanish Netherlands is where chocolate began to appear in the 17th century.
12. The Habsburg monarchy of Spain ruled Belgium.
13. The War of the Spanish Succession was fought in 1701-1714.
14. The Austrian Habsburg Empire succeeded Charles II of Spain.
15. Belgium became independent in 1830.
16. In 1828 is when the Dutch chocolate maker Coenraad van Houten developed a hydraulic press that could extract cocoa butter from beans to leave cocoa powder.
17. The Dutching process allowed bars to be made.
18. The Dutching process patent ran out in 1838.
19. J.S. Fry & Sons was a British chocolate manufacturer located in Bristol.
20. In 1847 the Cadbury brothers in Birmingham made their first bars.
21. Ghana and Nigeria were part of the Gold Coast.
22. Britain colonized the Gold Coast.
23. France colonized Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast.
24. Belgium got involved in the scramble for Africa in the 1870s.
25. Explorer Henry Morton Stanley traveled through Africa in the trans-Africa expedition from 1874-1877.
26. King Leopold II of Belgium set-up the private empire known as the Congo Free State.
27. The Ivory Coast and Ghana are the first and second producers of cocoa.
28. Joseph Mobutu was a corrupt ruler for the Democratic Republic of Congo since independence.
29. The Eastern Congo Initiative is a charity set up by Ben Affleck to represent Congo cocoa farmers.
30. Seattle based ethical chocolate maker Theo bout cocoa beans from the Eastern Congo Initiative.

Chapter 14 Kimchi, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 14: Kimchi


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1. Onggi is earthenware jars.
2. The fermentation of vegetables go back in Korean culture three kingdoms, 1st century CE.
3. Baechoo Kimchi is Napa Cabbage.
4. Gochujang is Korean fermented food.

Chapter 13 Garum, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 13: Garum


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1. Garum is fish intestines and other parts of the fish that are otherwise thrown out.
2. Garum is made with fish parts that were left in the sun, salted to ferment.
3. They called the thick sludge "allec."
4. Cartagena had the best garum.
5. The best garum came from Hispania, Spain.
6. The garum factories from the Roman Empire  are found today in Baelo Claudia and Carteia, Gibraltar.

Chapter 12 Spartan Black Broth, Fifty Foods that Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 12: Spartan Black Broth


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1. The Battle of Thermopylae took place in 480 BCE.
2. True, Spartan society had three classes.
3. The perioikoi were workers and traders.
4. The helots were slaves.
5. The council of elders threw off cliffs newborn boys who were not healthy enough to grow into soldiers.
6. Spartan boys were separated by the age of 7.
7. Agoge was the name of the military school.
8. A syssitia is a small group of soldiers who lived and ate together.
9. The boys who couldn't pass military school were returned to Spartan society as perioikoi.
10. The Battle of Thermopylae lasted 3 days.
11. The Persian Army was 150,000 men strong.
12. The Greek Army was 7,000 men strong.
13. The Spartan Army was 300 men strong.
14. King Xerxes led the Persian Army.
15. King Leonidas led the Greek and Spartan Army.

Chapter 11 Olive Oil, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 11: Olive Oil


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1. Olive oil comes from Spain, Italy, and Greece.
2. The two civilizations that suffered a sudden decline in the early 12th century BCE were the Egyptians and Hittites.
3. The coastal cities between Egypt and Greece were destroyed within 50 years.
4. This time period was called the Dark Ages.
5. The coastal cities between Egypt and Greece returned on the 10th century BCE by the Assyrian Empire and 8th century BCE Greek civilization.
6. The Phoenicians failed to develop extensive trading networks.
7. The city-states of the Phoenicians were Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos.
8. Canaan is in Lebanon.
9. True, The Phonetic alphabet, which used symbols to convey sounds rather than to depict individual words.
10. True, The Greek alphabet developed from the Phoenician one with the addition of vowels and the Romans then adapted it to form the letters still widely used today.
11. Tyrian purple is a dye found in murex sea snails.
12. The Phoenicians left their homeland after the Persians conquered Canaan after 539 BCE.
13. The Phoenicians moved to Carthage after the Persians conquered Canaan.
14. The Phoenician Empire in Carthage was destroyed by Rome in 146 BCE.
15. The Phoenicians challenged the Roman Empire in the Punic Wars.
16. Monte Testaccio is an artificial hill on the eastern bank of the River Tiber made from the broken terracotta.
17. The Phoenicians were merchants not farmers.
18. There were more than 100 olive presses found in Ekron.
19. In the ancient world, Ekron produced 1,120 tons of oil a year.
20. King Manasseh was King of Judah who ruled from 686 BCE to 642 BCE.
21. King Sennacherib was king of the Assyrian Empire.
22. King Manasseh was the son of Hezekiah.
23. Hezekiah led a revolt against the Assyrian Empire.
24. King Manasseh had to pay King Sennacherib a tribute of olive oil for rebelling against him.

Chapter 10 Noodles, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 10: Noodles

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1. The noodles dating back to the Bronze Age were found in Lajia, Yellow River in central China.
2. The noodles originate from China.
3. Roman poet Horace wrote about a dish called lasagna in the 1st century BCE.
4. The first reference to spaghetti comes from Sicily.
5. The first reference to spaghetti comes from Sicily in the 12th century.
6. The first reference to spaghetti comes from Sicily in 1071.
7. Marco Polo was a famous Venetian merchant.
8. Venice and Genoa were two Italian city-states that were powerful in the 12th century.
9. The tomatoes were introduced to Italy after Christopher Columbus discovered America.
10. Yakisoba Pan is fried noodles in bread.
11. Yakisoba Sauce is a Japanese version of Worcestershire Sauce.
12. The Taiping Rebellion was in 1850.
13. The Taiping Rebellion is a bloody civil war in China.
14. 20 million people dead in the Taiping Rebellion.
15. Chop suey existed in Guangdong Province in southern China.
16. Nissin Foods created Cup Noodles.

Chapter 9 Corn, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 9: Corn

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1. Corn was cultivated in the Americas and was the foundation stone for great empires.
2. Teosinte was the name of the early version of corn.
3. Corn was first grown in Oaxaca Valley of Southern Mexico.
4. The second domestication of corn took place in the coastal region of Peru.
5. The Olmecs is the "mother-culture" of Mesoamerica.
6. The Olmecs developed the first writing system.
7. The Olmecs drew the first charts of the stars.
8. The Olmecs drew the first calendar.
9. The 3 sisters are corn, beans, and squash.
10. HFCS is High-fructose corn syrup.
11. HFCS is linked to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
12. HFCS was developed in Japan in the 1960s.

Chapter 8 Soybean, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 8: Soybean

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1. The soybean was first domesticated in Yellow River, Central China, about 5000 BCE.
2. The Yellow River Valley was the cradle of Chinese civilization.
3. Shennong is attributed to the cultivation of the soybean.
4. The first sacred grains were rice, wheat, barley, millet, and beans.
5. Soybeans weren't cultivated in other parts of the world because soybeans require a great deal of processing before they become edible.
6. No, humans cannot digest the protein of the soybean in a raw state.
7. Soymilk is used to make tofu.
8. The soybean is a crop that is drought resistant and deep rooting.
9. Corn is the top growing crop in the United States.
10. The soybean is the second growing crop in the United States.
11. Vegetable Oil is soybean marketed as cooking oil.
12. True, almost all of the soybeans grown in America are now of genetically modified varieties.
13. Tofu is a coagulant such as gypsum (calcium sulfate) to hot soy milk so that the proteins solidify as bean curd.

Chapter 7 Beer, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 7: Beer

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1. Cities started to develop 5500 BCE in Sumer.
2. Sumer was the name of the first development.
3. Sumer was located southern region of Mesopotamia.
4. Sumer is located in Iraq today.
5. People in the early days were paid in the form of bread and beer.
6. A jar is the symbol in tablets that was used to indicate beer.
7. Ninkasi was the name of the Sumerian goddess of beer.
8. The workers of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid in bread and beer.
9. The workers of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid in 3 loaves of bread and 2 jars of beer containing about 4 pints.
10. The first written law came from Ancient Mesopotamia.
11. The Babylonian King Hammurabi died c1750 BCE.
12. The Code of Hammurabi was written carved into a stone column and it is now in the Louvre.
13. Under the Code of Hammurabi, there were 20 different categories.
14. Out of those 20 different categories, 8 contained barley.
15. The other beer categories in the Code of Hammurabi were wheat beers, mix grain beers, black beers, and export to Egypt.
16. The Babylonian King Hammurabi was the first to adopt laws governing beer.
17. The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 are the regulations to ensure that Bavarian beer was only made from malted barley, hops, and water.
18. The Bavarian Beer Purity Law was the English name of the Reinheitsgebot of 1516.
19. The purpose of the law was to ensure that wheat and rye were used to make bread rather beer.
20. Lager is the most common beer bought around the world.
21. Lagern is Lager in German.
22. Lager means "to store."
23. Bavarians stored beer in caves during summer to keep it cool.
24. Fermentation from the bottom of the barrels occurs at low temperatures to produce a clear beer.
25. Answers will vary
26. Bavarian Brewer Josef Groll in 1842 took the bottom-fermented beer-making process to the Bahemian town of Pilsen.
27. Pilsen beer is pale lager.
28. Pilsner Urquell means the original Pilsner.

Chapter 6 Dates, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 6: Dates

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1. People started eating dates 7,000 years ago.
2. The nomadic tribes traveling across the Arabian and Saharan deserts ate camel's milk and dates.
3. Ibn Battuta traveled across these deserts and left us with a journal of his travels.
4. Ibn Battuta started his travel from City of Sijilmasa, Morocco.
5. It took Ibn Battuta to arrive to Taghaza, Northern Mali 25 years.
6. The people of Taghaza were involved in the salt trade.
7. Ovalata was the name of the southern oasis town located on the southern edge of the desert.
8. The Mali Empire existed in the 13th century to about 1600.
9. Ibn Battuta was alive from 1304 to 1369.
10. Niani was the name of the capital city of the Mali Empire.
11. Ibn Battuta was in the capital city for 8 months.
12. No, Timbuktu was not the wealthy city at this time in Mali.
13. Tagine is a North African stew.
14. Nomadic Berbers of Morocco cooked tagine.

Chapter 5 Beef, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 5: Beef

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1. The Aurochs is the name of the wild ancestor of the cattle.
2. The last Auroch died in 1627.
3. The last Auroch died at Polish Forest.
4. True, the builders of Stonehenge were cattle farmers.
5. True, Stonehenge culture had much in common with those who built the temple complex in the Orkneys.
6. Grooved Ware is the name of the style of pottery used in Stonehenge and Orkney.
7. Kobe beef is the most expensive meat in the world.
8. Kobe beef comes from Hyõgo, Japan.
9. No, Kobe beef sold abroad is not real.
10. Wagyu Cattle is the strain of cattle used for Kobe beef.
11. The cows are fed grain.
12. Celtic myths have their origin in the Iron Age.
13. Hereford cattle come from Herefordshire, United Kingdom.
14. The first Hereford cattle were exported to the U.S. in 1817.
15. The Shorthorn and Texas Longhorn were replaced by the Hereford Cattle.
16. Charolais, Limousin, and Simmental were the 3 cattle breeds replaced the Hereford Cattle in Britain.
17. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy = B.S.E.
18. B.S.E. is also known as Mad Cow Disease

Chapter 4 Lamb, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 4: Lamb

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1. Sheep was domesticated in Southeastern Turkey and Northern Syria.
2. Sheep were domesticated about 11,000 years ago.
3. The Fertile Crescent is in Western Asia.
4. The wild ancestor of the sheep is the Asiatic Mouflon.
5. Sheep began to have wool about 6,000 BCE.
6. Sheep were located in Zargos Mountains of Iran.
7. Sheep do better on grasslands.
8. Sheep do better as grazers.
9. Goats prefer to browse on the leaves of trees and shrubs.
10. True, The Qashqai are of Turkic descent.
11. The Qashqai use the sheep's milk to make yogurt.
12. The Qashqai made rugs and carpets with the sheep's wool.
13. The Chelow Kalab is a national dish in Iran.
14. The 1688 Glorious Revolution was a revolution that deposed King James II.
15. After the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the British started destroying the clans of Northern Scotland.
16. The British Government executed clan chiefs or stripped of their lands.
17. Clans Chiefs who stayed loyal to the British Government were rewarded with the land taken from the rebels.  Some were awarded titles and incorporated into the British aristocracy.
18. The Enclosure Acts formalized the ownership of land during the Agricultural Revolution.
19. The Enclosure Acts gave title to individuals of common land or communal open fields.
20. True, by some people having these rights to the land, they began clearances of people off the land.
21. The new owners rented the confiscated farms to commercial farmers.
22. The idea behind renting farms to commercial farmers was to farm sheep for meat and wool.  Supply the expanding cities of the Scotland and North of England.
23. Soldiers and policemen carried out the clearances of small farmers.
24. The wool and meat produced in these commercial farms was more expensive than Australia and New Zealand.
25. The heart, lungs, and various other internal organs are minced up with onions and oats and then simmered slowly in a sheep's stomach.
26. 90% of New Zealand's farm produce is for export.

Chapter 3 Pacific Salmon, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 3: Pacific Salmon

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1. True, people were living in North America by 15,000 BP.
2. True, Pacific Salmon was the diet of people living in North America by 15,000 BP.
3. True, some of the native tribes cooked the fish before eating.
4. True, some of the natives ate the fish raw.
5. True, some of the native tribes impaled the fish on sticks and roasted them over an open fire.
6. True, some of the native tribes would have the fish either air-dried on racks or smoked in wooden smoke houses specially built for the purpose.
7. The "Salmon Nations" were the tribes of the Pacific Northwest.
8. The Russian Fur Trappers exposed the First Nations to disease to which they had no natural immunity.
9. Smallpox killed 90% of the First Nations population.
10. Trade with settlers contributed to great wealth among tribal chiefs.
11. China had a high demand for sea otters.
12. The Columbia River in Northern Oregon was the location for the canning industry in the mid 19th century.
13. Westport Cannery was located in the Columbia River in Northern Oregon.
14. Westport Cannery was founded by Scottish-born John West in 1868.
15. The main workforce in the 37 canneries (cannery industry) in Northern Oregon were from China.
16. John West's British customers were Pelling Stanley and Company of Liverpool.
17. Westport Cannery fish was popular in the U.K. because it was cheaper than local fresh fish and it was exported to all British colonies.
18. The cannery industry was killed in 1980.
19. The Columbia River cannery industry moved to Alaska.
20. The name of the King Salmon is "The Chinook."
21. Alaska controls 80% of the cannery industry.

Chapter 2 Bread, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 2: Bread

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1. The 3 most important grasses to humans are wheat, rice, and corn.
2. Biologist Richard Wrangham had a theory that cooking was one of the main driving forces behind human evolution, allowing for an increase in brain size because of the greater amount of energy made available to us in food when it is cooked compared to when it is raw.
3. Bread is considered the first processed food because the grain had to be grind and cooked.
4. Querns were the name of the stones that grind the grain.
5. The first bread looked like it was very similar to the flatbreads made in the Middle East today.
6. Leavened bread was being made 6,000 years ago.
7. Leavened bread was being made in Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations 6,000 years ago.
8. Clay tablets with marks of symbols of bushels of wheat were the earliest form of writing.
9. Sumerian City of Uruk was the earliest form of surplus of wheat produced that allowed others to specialize in different trades.
10. Baker was the first type of specialized tradesmen.
11. True, Breweries and bakeries were usually located together about 6,000 years ago.
12. The "Book of Exodus" says the Children of Israel left Egypt without the leaven used to make bread rise.
13. The "Book of Exodus" says the Children of Israel ate unleavened bread during their flight.
14. Matzo is unleavened bread, flour and water.
15. Chametz is food containing leavening.
16. The creation of the Jewish tradition of eating matzo is that during the exit of Egypt, the Children of Israel, only ate matzo.
17. Seder, the first evening of Passover, is the ritual feast that has three matzos on the center table.
18. A karpas is a green vegetable, parsley or celery.
19. The karpas symbolized the hopes of the Israelites in Egypt.
20. The bread is dipped in salty water before being eaten because it stands for the tears they shed after becoming ensalved.
21. Haroset is a brown paste made of chopped fruit and nuts.
22. Haroset looks like the mortar the Israelites used in the building work they were forced to do in Egypt.
23. The two bitter herbs are maror and hazeret.
24. Horseradish and romaine lettuce is used to signify the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.
25. The roasted shank bone of a lamb or goat (z'roa) stands for the sacrifice the Israelites were commanded to make on the night they left Egypt and at the Temple of Jerusalem after they had arrived in the Promised Land.
26. The roasted hard-boiled egg symbolizes the sacrifice the Israelites were commanded to make on the night they left Egypt and at the Temple of Jerusalem after they had arrived in the Promise Land.
27. True, bread also plays a central role in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist.
28. The Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople believed Christ used leavened bread during the Last Supper.
29. The Roman Catholic Church in Rome believed Christ used unleavened bread during the Last Supper.
30. Yes, there was a poor in France in 1789.
31. Yes, the price of wheat rocketed in 1789 in France.
32. Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia that started the Arab Spring.

Chapter 1 Woolly Mammoth, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 1: Woolly Mammoth

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1. The Quaternary Extinction Event is the transition between the Pleistocene and Holocene.
2. The two animals that did not become extinct during the Quaternary are the European bison and reindeer.
3. Besides the woolly mammoth, there was the woolly rhinoceros.
4. The animals couldn't adapt to their environment and forests moved in into grasslands.
5. A mammoth would provide 3-4 tons of food.
6. The Neanderthals inhabited northern regions before Cro-Magnons.
7. Reverend William Buckland discovered the Red Lady of Paviland.
8. The Red Lady of Paviland was discovered in the Coast of South Wales.
9. The Lion Man was found in Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
10. The Bluefish Caves are in Yukon, Canada.

Found at Sea by Time for Kids

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Article: Found at Sea
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1. The two ships that were part of an expedition were H.M.S. Terror and H.M.S. Erebus.
2. The wreck of the H.M.S. Erebus was found in 2014.
3. The wreck of the H.M.S. Terror was found September 3, 2016.
4. The ships were looking for the Northwest Passage.
5. Adrian Schimnowski led the team that located the H.M.S. Erebus.
6. Sammy Kogvik, an Inuit from Canada, helped with locating the H.M.S. Erebus.
7. Sammy Kogvik found the H.M.S. Erebus.
8. The H.M.S. Erebus was found off the coast of Canada's King William island.
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A Wake-Up Call by Rebecca Katzman

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1. Gabe Fleisher is the daily political newsletter wrtier.
2. Gabe Fleisher is 14 years old.
3. Gabe Fleisher's online daily political newsletter is called "Wake Up to Politics."
4. Gabe Fleisher writes two hours a day on his newsletter.
5. Gabe Fleisher's school is John Burroughs School.
6. Gabe Fleisher lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
7. Gabe writes about elections, Congress and the President.
8. Gabe was 7 years old when he saw President Barack Obama's first Inauguration.
9. Election Day falls on Gabe's 15th birthday.
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The Death of a King by Time for Kids

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1. King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on October 13, 2016 in Thailand.
2. King Bhumibol Adulyadej was 88 years old.
3. King Bhumibol Adulyadej ruled Thailand for 70 years.
4. King Bhumibol Adulyadej was the world's longest-serving monarch.
5. Thailand's national mourning will last one year.
6. Government officials will wear black.
7. King Bhumibol Adulyadej was born in 1927.
8. King Bhumibol Adulyadej started ruling Thailand in 1946.
9. King Bhumibol Adulyadej was 19 years old when he started ruling Thailand.
10. King Bhumibol Adulyadej started ruling Thailand because his brother died.
11. King Ananda Mahidol was King Bhumibol Adulyadej's brother.
12. Thailand's constitution says the king serves as head of state in Thailand.
13. Thailand's Prime Minister and Thailand's Parliament hold political power.
14. King Adulyadej was the referee between the two parties when Thailand's Prime Minister and Thailand's Parliament fought.
15. Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is in line to become the next king.
16. Prime Minister Prayuth  Chan-Ocha said the next king will be crowned at "an appropriate time."
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A History of The United States by Boorstin and Kelley

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1. Europe's treasure was the continent of Asia.
2. It would take 1 year to reach Beijing, China from Venice, Italy.
3. Venice is in Italy.
4. Beijing is in China.
5. In those days, you would take your treasures from Beijing to China by donkeys, horses, and camels.
6. The Azores are located in the Atlantic Ocean.
7. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
8. Christopher Columbus' brother's name is Bartholomeu.
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10. Christopher Columbus read Ptolemy's book.
11. Bartholemeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa in 1488.
12. Columbus formed his enterprise in Palos, Spain.
13. The caravels are sailboats.
14. The caravels were Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
15. Columbus set sail on August 3, 1492.
16. Columbus was at sea for 33 days.
17. Columbus discovered the New World on October 12, 1492.
18. Columbus discovered the Island of the Bahamas.
19. The natives called the island Guanahani.
20. Columbus named the island San Salvador.
21. Columbus hoped that the island of Cuba was Japan.
22. The ship, Santa Maria, was wrecked on the island of Haiti.
23. Columbus built a fort on the island of Haiti and he called is Hispaniola.
24. 40 men stayed on the island of Haiti in the fort.
25. Columbus set sail for home on January 4, 1493.
26. Columbus arrived to Spain on March 15, 1493.
27. Columbus made 3 voyages.
28. Columbus made his last voyage in 1504.
29. Columbus died in 1506.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 7

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1. All the Tucks drank from the spring.
2. The cat didn't drink.
3. Pa carved something to mark their location.
4. Ma and Pa got the first cottage.
5. Jesse fell off the tree.
6. A group of hunters shot the horse.
7. The hunters mistook the horse for a deer.
8. The snake bit Pa.
9. Jesse ate the poison toadstools.
10. Mae cut herself.
11. Mae stopped aging at 22 years old.
12. Miles is married with two children.
13. All of them went kind of crazy.
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