The story of Christopher Columbus and his historic voyage across the ocean is taught in most schools. The story has evolved to portray the journey in a more realistic and practical light. People used to believe that Columbus thought the world was flat. But there is one aspect of the story that not enough people […]
Many traditional Asian dishes make use of chili peppers. One variant was even named chinense because it was believed to have originated in China. But did you know where chili peppers actually come from? Asian regions such as India, China, and Thailand are known for their spicy dishes, but they only discovered and used chili
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The long-spanning controversy surrounding The Discovery of America and The Rescue statues situated at the east front of the Capitol building was a compilation of the amplified disapproval of the Indigenous people and their advocates that prevailed for numerous years. The removal of the Christopher Columbus statue occurred in 1958 as the Capitol pieces that
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European colonization of the Americas killed 10 percent of world population and caused global cooling While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60 million people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas which devastated the native population, and
