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What did the Seneca Indians eat?

The Seneca, the largest of the five original nations that comprised the Five Nations or the Iroquois League, enjoyed berries and nuts. They prized certain plants for their medicinal powers, and they raised and consumed domesticated fowl like turkey.\nWomen shouldered most of the agricultural duties of growing and harvesting. Seneca women were also the sole owners of their land and homes. Men hunted deer, the black bear and the passenger pigeon; what they captured served as their major contribution to their family's subsistence.\nThe Cornplanter band of Seneca conducted annual fish drives...

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What were the most common crimes in the Middle Ages?

Theft was punished very severely in the Middle Ages, although the exact punishment changed throughout the time period and depended on the country. A common punishment for theft was to chop the thief’s hands off to prevent him or her from repeating the crime.\nMurder was the next most common crime in the Middle Ages, although it was far less common than theft. It was nearly always punishable by death. Women who were convicted of committing a murder, for example, were strangled to death and then burned.\nAll crime was very harshly punished in the Middle Ages. Prisons were uncommon, and crimina..

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What are some historical examples of women who have been hanged?

In 1633, Virginian Margaret Hatch was hanged for murder, as was Dorothy Talby, of Massachusetts, in 1638 for killing her daughter, an infant named Difficulty.\nIn Colonial America, many offenses were punished with death that are not recognized as crimes by modern legal codes. Massachusetts woman Mary Latham, for example, was hanged in 1648 for adultery. In 1692, 13 women were hanged in Salem over the course of two months for witchcraft. These were the last judicial punishments for witchcraft in North America.\nIt has frequently happened that condemned women have been hanged despite being grant..

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What is the history of the Nevada Test Site?

In the early days of the nuclear testing program, when fallout was poorly understood, the Nevada Test Site became a major tourist attraction. People flocked to the region to watch detonations, not knowing that winds were blowing radioactive particles throughout the region. Marked increases in several types of cancer resulted from this close proximity, and the region remains one of the most contaminated sites on the planet.\nMuch of the existing stock library of film and photographs related to nuclear detonations resulted from tests at the Nevada Test Site. For many of the above-ground explosio..

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How did the Aztecs farm?

Chinampas typically measured about 20 to 50 feet wide and 325 to 650 feet long, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. People created them by marking rectangular sections of lake with tall stakes then weaving a fence between the stakes and filling in the area with fertile mud and vegetation. Farmers built chinampas up to a few feet above the lake's water level. Where the water was deeper, farmers planted willows along the edges to anchor and stabilize the soil.\nAztec-History.com states that this led to a highly efficient and effective farming system. Farmers irrigated the rich soil d..

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What is the Kentucky Homestead Act?

The Act pegs eligibility on two factors: an applicant must be at least 65 years of age or totally disabled. The applicant must also be living in the home to be eligible, own it either in part or wholly, and maintain the property. By reducing the tax bill, the Act minimizes financial pressure on people who are most prone to it due to their status or age.\nApplicants fill the “Application For Exemption Under The Homestead/Disability Amendment” form that the Department of Revenue provides. The applicant also signs an affidavit, indication that he only claims exemption for one home and in case..

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What were health and sanitation like during the Industrial Revolution?

People were often in poor health because they lived in overly crowded apartments and tenements. Living conditions were terrible, as slums appeared and construction standards were low. Clean water was often hard to find because sewage and waste were dumped into the same rivers that supplied drinking and washing water. Some areas lacked washing facilities, leaving residents without hygienic options.\nBecause of the crowded living and working spaces, the lack of clean water, and the incorrect knowledge of what caused disease, multitudes of people died. Doctors of the time thought diseases were ca..

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Where did the abacus come from?

Rather than making calculations as modern computers do, the abacus merely keeps track of numbers so that a human can make the calculations more quickly. In some countries, the abacus is still in widespread use, and skilled operators can carry out simple calculations on one as quickly as other people can perform the same operations with a calculator.

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Where can a map of Hernando Cortes' route be found?

Hernan Cortes was a Spanish soldier and explorer who took part in the Spanish colonization of the Americas and captured much of Mexico for the King of Castile. His expedition to Mexico led to the fall of the Aztec Empire. Cortes was born in 1485 in Medellin, Spain, and died in 1547 near Seville, Spain.

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What is a short summary of Che Guevara's life story?

Che Guevara studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires and then became active in the political scene in Argentina, Bolivia and Guatemala. After meeting Fidel and Raul Castro in Mexico, Guevara became one of their military advisers and guerrilla troop leader in an effort to overthrow the Cuban Batista government. After Castro took over Cuba, Guevara took control of La Cabana Fortress prison and oversaw the execution of several hundred people. After this position, he became president of the Cuban national bank and worked to increase trade with the Soviet Union and decrease trade relation..

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