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What type of food did Natchez Indians eat?

Natchez Indians were farmers. They grew corn, beans, squash and pumpkins. Corn was eaten in many forms, such as cornbread, hominy, popcorn and corn on the cob. Eggs and other fruits and vegetables were also part of the Natchez diet.\nLike almost all other tribes, the Natchez hunted for meat. Deer and rabbit were common food items. Large game, such as buffalo, was also hunted. Wild turkeys, ducks, geese and other birds were food staples. Snares, traps and ambush scenarios enabled Natchez Indians to hunt game alone or in a group.\nFishing the rivers, lakes and coastal areas provided another sour..

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What was the Statue of Liberty's original color?

The sculptor of The Statue of Liberty was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who was known for his large-scale projects. He invited the designer of the Eiffel Tower, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, to make a skeleton for the statue using iron, pylon and steel. This allowed the copper skin to move freely. The statue was a gift from France to the United States in celebration of its success as a democracy.

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Who first discovered America?

Eriksson, son of legendary Erik the Red, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a high-prowed Viking ship with his Norseman crew, landing in what would become Canada. Upon landing, Eriksson gave the area the name Helluland, meaning "stone slab land" in Norwegian. Eriksson and his crew spent the winter in Helluland, an area abundant with meadows, grapes and wild salmon, before heading home.

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What is a samurai?

Beginning in the 10th century, Japanese warrior culture formed around the ideals of loyal service to the feudal lord, bravery and an unflinching sense of personal and family honor. In time, these tenets formed the core of the samurai ethos and guided the civil administration of Japan for nearly 900 years, until the mid-1870s, according to PBS "Japan: Memoirs of an Secret Empire."\nAt first, nearly any able-bodied fighting man was permitted to earn a place in the ranks of the samurai. Near the end of the 16th century, however, a series of edicts from the Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi began to forma..

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Who invented silk?

The production and use of silk was limited to China until around 139 B.C. when the collective trade routes known as the Silk Road opened up commerce with the west during the Han Dynasty. Extensive hand labor produces the best quality silk fabric, with about 500 silkworm cocoons needed to produce one necktie. As sericulture spread to western countries, China's exports in the commodity lessened, but the country maintained its dominance in the production of luxury silk products.

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What are some of the facts that stand out about the Battle of Vicksburg?

After the failure of two major assaults against the fortress city of Vicksburg, the battle became a siege tactic during which Union troops surrounded and blockaded the city in which a garrison of more than 30,000 Confederate troops and the city's civilians held out for more than 40 days before surrendering. Located on the eastern side of the Mississippi River, the city of Vicksburg was also bombarded from the west by over 22,000 shells coming from the Union gunboats on the river.The siege of Vicksburg resulted in the boxed-in Confederate troops and civilians eventually succumbing to starv..

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Why was Robert Hooke's microscope so important?

Hooke invented ways of controlling the height and angle of microscopes as well as mechanisms of illumination. Variations in light allowed Hooke to see new detail, using multiple sources of illumination. Hooke's technical efforts created magnifications of 50x, enabling insight to a world not yet known in the 1600s. Adept at technical drawing, Hooke also had the gift of illustrating his discoveries.\nHooke's discovery was of plant cells, the cell walls of cork tissue, to be exact. He found similar material in wood and a variety of plants. Not only did he make this discovery but he also..

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What was the religion of the people who lived in colonial New Hampshire?

Outside of colonial Rhode Island, Puritanism was the dominant religion for all New England colonists. Puritans led strict religious lives, and dissenters were treated harshly. In 1689, the English Parliament passed The Tolerant Act, which stopped corporal punishment for dissenters, such as cropping the ears of Quakers or publicly whipping Baptists. This act freed other religions to establish churches in Puritan colonies without punishment. Puritanism and Congregationalism remained the predominant religion until the Great Awakening ignited the Protestant movement in the mid-18th century.

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How many people died when Mount Saint Helens erupted?

Responding to an accumulation of danger signs and warnings from the United States Geological Survey, Governor Dixy Lee Ray of Washington State declared a state of emergency around the mountain on April 3 and then later banned all unapproved visitors from entering the large red zone created around the volcano under penalty of fine or imprisonment. Despite these preventive measures, when the volcano erupted on May 18, the enormous avalanche and pyroclastic flow caught 57 people unaware. Most were asphyxiated in the flow, while a few were crushed under tons of volcanic debris.

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What kinds of ancient Indian artifacts were discovered?

Archaeological excavations on the territory of India provided historians with artifacts that date back to prehistory. These include stone tools used by early humans for daily activities and some of the earliest types of weapons known to historians. Ornamental jewelry, pottery and coins more than 5,000 years old exist in the National Museum in Delhi, as well as in other history museums in the world.

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