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| MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE ON EARTH Here’s what was happening elsewhere on the planet while people were using those pots Andrea Berlin found at Tel Anafa dating from about 300 BCE-100 CE. o One of the world's biggest living things, General Sherman Tree, was a seedling sometime before 200 BCE. The giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park in California is nearly 84 meters* tall with a trunk 11 meters wide. o The great mathematician Archimedes (ahr kuh MEE deez ) died in 212 BCE. Legend has it that a Roman soldier killed him in an attack on the city as as the old man was working on a geometry problem. Another story is that Archimedes ran outdoors from his bath without dressing when he solved a problem, shouting “Eureka!” In Greek, that means, “I have found it!” o The Hopewell culture began about 100 B.C. in what now is Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri. People grew corn and squash and traded widely — stone for pipe from Minnesota, sharks’ teeth from Florida and volcanic glass from Wyoming. They buried these with their dead in burial mounds. o Jesus of Nazareth lived and taught in the Holy Land from about 4 BCE to about 27 CE. Christians believe Jesus is the son of God. ________ The information is from World Book Encyclopedia and other sources. ________ * To change from kilometers to miles and to make other metric conversions, you can use this site from the state of Washington: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Metrics/factors.htm |
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