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    1. KiaraDillabough99 27 Aug 2025
      They were all discovered/invented by ancient people between six and ten thousand years ago, and three of the five were invented in the Americas. The world’s five top five staples today (in order of importance) are maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, and cassava. Only rice and wheat were known to Europe, Asia, and Africa before contact with the Americas.

      I think it matters a lot that there were no large animal species in the Americas for natives to domesticate because then they did not have meat and milk from cows, no cattle to help pull carriages and do farm work. I find it really interesting that three of the staples we still eat today were invented in the americas.

    2. KiaraDillabough99 27 Aug 2025
      China also led the world in iron, copper, and porcelain production as well as in the “Four Great Inventions”: the compass, gunpowder, paper-making, and printing.

      I find it really interesting that China was huge in trade an inventing important things that far back in history and that it is not just a modern or new thing that they are so involved in that. I think it really is significant that china and India have always been centers of world population.

    3. KiaraDillabough99 27 Aug 2025
      In 330 CE, the Roman Emperor Constantine banned persecution of Christians, and by 400 AC, Christianity had replaced the worship of Rome’s traditional gods and goddesses as the state religion of the Roman Empire. Because Constantine embraced the new faith, the Roman Catholic Church is the most direct descendent of the Roman Empire. The Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, still lives in Rome, and the vestments of Catholic priests (and the clergy of some other liturgical Christian denominations) are similar to those worn by fourth-century Roman officials. Questions for Discussion

      This interests me the most because the Roman Emperor basically took over christianity as their own and still control it to this day over a thousand years later and no one thought twice about it. I did not know this.

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