Chapter 24 Potato, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 24: Potato


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1. Where was the potato domesticated?
2. When was the classic period of the Inca Empire?
3. Which Inca ruler was known as the "earth-shaker"?
4. How long did the Inca Empire expand?
5. When did Francisco Pizarro land in Ecuador?
6. How many men did Francisco Pizarro have with him when he landed in Ecuador?
7. How many horses did Francisco Pizarro have with him when he landed in Ecuador?
8. In what year did Pizarro meet Atahualpa?
9. Why did the Spanish ignore the agriculture system of the Incas?
10. Where was the potato first cultivated outside of South America?
11. What was The Thirty Years War?
12. Which war eventually became a conflict between the Bourbon and Habsburg Dynasties?
13. Where was the Great Hunger?
14. To which cities in Britain did Irish people emigrated to during the Great Hugner?
15. To which countries did Irish people emigrated to during the Great Hunger?
16. What were known as "Coffin Ships"?
17. What is the name of the most serious disease of the potato?
18. What is the official name of The Blight?

Chapter 23 Roquefort Cheese, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 23: Roquefort Cheese


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1. Where does Roquefort Cheese come from?
2. What is the name of the sheep raised in this region?
3. How old is the milk from these sheep aged for cheese in the caves of Combalou?
4. What is the name of the fungus to make Roquefort Cheese?
5. Which other cheeses use the same fungus as the Roquefort Cheese?
6. Who passed a law saying that Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon is the only place that can sell cheese called Roquefort Cheese?
7. How many companies that sell cheese exist in Roquefort-Sur-Soulzon?
8. Which company is the largest with 70% of the market?

Chapter 22 Turnips, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 22: Turnips

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1. The turnip was farmed as a fodder for which animal?
2. Which Dutch city developed into one of the largest and wealthiest cities in Europe?
3. What constituted to the British Agricultural Revolution?
4. Who is the person who was credited with the four-course farming method?

Chapter 21 Cassoulet, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 21: Cassoulet

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1. Where is the origin of the cassoulet?
2. What is the language of Southern France?
3. What is the cassoulet called in its original language?
4. Which is the Cassoulet Capital of the World?
5. Who wrote "French Provincial Cooking"?
6. When was the Festival of the Cassoulet held for the first time?
7. When was cassoulet first made?
8. What was the Hundred Years War?
9. Who was the son of English King Edward III?
10. What were the campaigns in Aquitaine and Languedoc called?
11. Who was the Black Prince?
12. From where did the haricot beans come from in the cassoulet?
13. The Hundred Years War is remembered in Britain by which battle?
14. The Hundred Years War is remembered in France by which victories and who?

Chapter 20 Peking Duck, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 20: Peking Duck

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1. What is Peking Duck known as in China?
2. What is the name of the book of the first recording of Peking Duck?
3. Principles of Food and Drink is also known as _______________________.
4. What is the name of the court dietician who wrote "Principles of Food and Drink"?
5. In what dynasty does Peking Duck appear?
6. Who established the Yuan Dynasty in China?
7. Who was Kublai Khan's grandfather?
8. When did the Yuan Dynasty collapse in China?
9. Which dynasty took place in China after the Yuan Dynasty?
10. What does Beijing mean?
11. Which dynasty ruled after the Ming Dynasty?
12. What is Peking Duck called in Britain?
13. What is plum sauce?

Chapter 19 Frankfurter, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 19: Frankfurter


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1. When was Frankfurt am Main a commercial center?
2. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was also known as _________________.
3. Who was the successor state to the Carolingian Empire?
4. What does Frederick Barbarossa mean?
5. In what year was Frankfurt granted the Imperial Free City?
6. What does Imperial Free City allow you to do?
7. Where did Emperors hold their coronations and elections?
8. Who was the first emperor to be coronated in Frankfurt to have his special sausage made to celebrate this event?
9. What are Frankfurters called in America?
10. What was the hot dog first called in America?
11. When did Charles Feltman open his operation in Coney Island?
12. When did the Brooklyn Bridge open?
13. What propelled Coney Island to become a busy resort?
14. What was the name of Charles Feltman's employee who opened his own hot dog stand in Coney Island?
15. When did this employee open his hot dog stand?
16. When did the Major League start operating?

Chapter 18 Salted Herring, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 18: Salted Herring

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1. What is the origin of salted herring?
2. What was the Hansa or the Hanseatic League?
3. What was the name of the French town that exported herring in the 15th century?
4. Why did Boulogne become wealthy of the herring trade?
5. Where is the Falstero Peninsula?
6. What was the name of the city located in the Holy Roman Empire that is now Germany, which merchants went to the Scania Market to buy fish?
7. What was the name of the city that the merchants supplied the salt from Luneberg Salt Springs in Northern Germany?
8. During this time period, the fish was cheap and it became a staple of food.  True or False
9. Which merchants formed trade guilds within their city?
10. Explain the Hanseatic League.
11. Who governed the Hanseatic League?
12. What was the name of the party that control/governed the Hanseatic League?
13. The Hanseatic League reached its height in the 15th century.  How far did it extend?
14. The Hansa merchants left their culture in today's Luneburg region.  What is an item that can be seen today?
15. When was the Hanseatic League dissolved?
16. When was the road, from Luneburg to Lubeck, superseded by a canal?
17. Where are the Luneburg salt works found today?
18. What is the silver of the sea?

Chapter 17 Spice, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 17: Spice

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1. What city was the gateway for goods to be transported into central and northern Europe in the 8th century?
2. Where did pepper come from?
3. Where did cinnamon come from?
4. Where did cloves come from?
5. Where did nutmeg come from?
6. Which were the Spice Islands?
7. In what year did Constantinople fall?
8. Which two nations tried through maritime efforts to break Venice's monopoly on the spice trade?
9. Who sailed west and landed on the Bahamas in 1492?
10. Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497?
11. Who was the first European to visit Mombasa?
12. Who visited Calicut in 1498?
13. What is the Malabar Coast of India called today?
14. How many ships did Vasco da Gama lose in his expedition?
15. With only one ship arriving to Lisbon, how much was the cargo of spices worth (mainly pepper and cinnamon)?
16. Which European country started settling overseas colonies first?
17. Which city became the main mercantile port for trade with Africa?
18. Which South American country was claimed for Portugal by Pedro Alvares Cabral?
19. What is the name of the first Portuguese colony in Southern India?
20. When did the Portuguese annex the city of Malacca on the Malay Peninsula?
21. What year did Ferdinand Magellan start his expedition for Spain?
22. What year did Ferdinand Magellan die in the Philippines?
23. What year did Ferdinand Magellan's voyage returned to Spain after circumnavigating the globe?
24. What was the name of the ship captured by the English Royal Navy in1592.
25. Where was the ship captured?
26. What did the ship have in its cargo?
27. How much was this cargo worth?
28. What year was the East India Company established?
29. Where was the East India Company established?
30. What year was the Dutch East India Company established?
31. What was the name in Dutch of the Dutch East India Company?
32. The Dutch Government and English Government granted charters for these two companies to take and defend colonies.  True or False
33. These two companies had the power to raise armies and build fortresses if necessary.  True or False
34. These two companies acted like governments.  True or False
35. How long were the Spice Wars?
36. The Spice Wars took place from 1602 to 1661.  True or False
37. What was the name of the Dutch East Indies capital?
38. What is Batavia now?
39. What is the name of the area the Dutch took over on the Malay Peninsula?
40. What was the Treaty of Utrecht of 1661?
41. Who controlled Macau?
42. What was the Act of Union of 1707?
43. Which colony did the British establish?
44. When was Hong Kong returned to China?
45. When was Macau returned to China?
46. Who founded Singapore in 1819?

Chapter 16 Paella, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 16: Paella

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1. Where is paella from?
2. What is the traditional meat in a paella?
3. Where is La Albufera?
4. When did the Moors enter the Iberian Peninsula?
5. Who led this small force of Moors entering the Iberian Peninsula?
6. How long did the Moors take to take over the Iberian Peninsula?
7. Whose kingdom was in control of Portugal and Spain before the Moors took over?
8. What name did the Iberian Peninsula take over the Moors control?
9. What did the Moors introduce to Spain?
10. What area did the Umayyad Dynasty lose in 750?
11. Where did the Umayyad move their capital in 750?
12. When was the Great Mosque of Cordoba completed?
13. What was the Great Mosque of Cordoba converted to in 1236?
14. When were the Moors expelled from Spain?
15. For how many years did the Moors rule in Spain?
16. What was the name of the event of Christians taking back Spain?

Chapter 15 Chocolate, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 15: Chocolate


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1. Where does Maya Gold come from?
2. When was the Classical Mayan period?
3. Where is the cacao tree native?
4. Where does chocolate come from?
5. Who domesticated the cacao tree?
6. What did the Mayan used instead of gold for currency?
7. In which trip to the New World did Christopher Columbus encountered cocoa beans?
8. Where was the capital of the Aztec Empire?
9. What was Mexico City called in 1502?
10. Who introduced chocolate to Europe?
11. Where in Europe besides Spain did chocolate begin to appear in the 17th century?
12. Where did the Habsburg monarchy of Spain rule?
13. When was the War of the Spanish Succession fought?
14. Who, Habsburg or Bourbon, succeeded Charles II of Spain?
15. When did Belgium become independent?
16. When did the Dutch chocolate maker Coenraad van Houten develop a hydraulic press that could extract cocoa butter from beans to leave cocoa powder?
17. What was the name of the process that allowed bars to be made?
18. When did the Dutching Process patent run out?
19. Which British chocolate manufacturer was located in Bristol?
20. When did the Cadbury brothers in Birmingham make their first bars?
21. Which countries were part of the Gold Coast?
22. Which country colonized the Gold Coast?
23. Which countries did France colonize?
24. Which country got involved in the scramble for Africa in the 1870s?
25. Who traveled through Africa in the trans-Africa expedition from 1874-1877?
26. Who set-up the private empire known as the Congo Free State?
27. Who are the first and second producers of cocoa?
28. Who was a corrupt ruler for the Democratic Republic of Congo since independence?
29. What is the Eastern Congo Initiative?
30. Who bought cocoa beans from the Eastern Congo Initiative?

Chapter 14 Kimchi, Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 14: Kimchi


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1. What is an onggi?
2. How far does the fermentation of vegetables go back in Korean culture?
3. What is Baechoo Kimchi?
4. What is Gochujang?

Chapter 13 Garum, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 13: Garum


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1. What is garum?
2. How was garum made?
3. What did they call the thick sludge?
4. Which city had the best garum?
5. Where did the best garum come from?
6. Where are garum factories from the Roman Empire found today?

Chapter 12 Spartan Black Broth, Fifty Food That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 12: Spartan Black Broth


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1. When did the Battle of Thermopylae take place?
2. Spartan society had 3 classes.  True or False
3. What were the perioikoi?
4. What were the helots?
5. What did the council of elders do to newborn boys if they felt were not healthy enough to grow into soldiers?
6. What happened to Spartan boys at the age of 7?
7. What was military school called?
8. When the boys passed training they were elected to a syssitia.  What is a syssitia?
9. What happened to the boys who couldn't pass military training?
10. How long did the Battle of Thermopylae last?
11. How big was the Persian Army?
12. How big was the Greek Army?
13. How big was the Spartan Army?
14. Who led the Persian Army?
15. Who led the Greek and Spartan Army?

Chapter 11 Olive Oil, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

Chapter 11: Olive Oil

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1. Where does Olive Oil come from today?
2. Which two civilizations suffered a sudden decline in the early 12th century BCE?
3. What happened to the coastal cities between Egypt and Greece within 50 years?
4. What was this called?
5. When did these cities return?
6. Who failed to develop extensive trading networks?
7. What were the city-states of the Phoenicians?
8. Where is Canaan?
9. The phonetic alphabet, which used symbols to convey sounds rather than to depict individual words.  True or False
10. The Greek alphabet developed from the Phoenician one with the addition of vowels and the Romans then adopted it to form the letters still widely used today.  True or False
11. Where was Tyrian purple found?
12. When did the Phoenicians leave their homeland?
13. Where did the Phoenicians go after the Persians conquered Canaan?
14. When was the new Phoenician Empire in Carthage destroyed by Rome?
15. Who challenged the Roman Empire in the Punic Wars?
16. What is Monte Testaccio?
17. Were the Phoenicians merchants or farmers?
18. What as found in Ekron?
19. How much olive oil did Ekron produce in the ancient world?
20. Who was King Manasseh?
21. Who was King Sennacherib?
22. Manasseh was the son of whom?
23. Who led a revolt against the Assyrian Empire?
24. What was the tribute that King Manasseh had to pay King Sennacherib for rebelling against him?

Chapter 10 Noodles, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 10: Noodles

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1. Where did they find the noodles dating back to the Bronze Age?
2. So, where do the noodles originate?
3. What is the name of the poet who wrote about a dish called lasagna in the 1st century BCE?
4. Where does the first reference to spaghetti come from?
5. In what time period did the first reference to spaghetti come from?
6. In what year?
7. Who was a famous Venetian merchant?
8. In the 12th century, which two Italian city-states were powerful?
9. When were tomatoes introduced to Italy?
10. What is Yakisoba Pan?
11. What is Yakisoba Sauce?
12. When was the Taiping Rebellion?
13. What was the Taiping Rebellion?
14. How many people died in the Taiping Rebellion?
15. Where did chop suey exist before being found in America?
16. What did Nissin Foods create?

Chapter 9 Corn, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 9: Corn

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1. What crop was cultivated in the Americas and was the foundation stone for great empires?
2. What was the name of the early version of corn?
3. Where was corn first grown?
4. Where did the second domestication of corn take place?
5. Who is the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica?
6. Who developed the first writing system?
7. Who drew the first charts of the stars?
8. Who drew the first calendar?
9. What are the sisters?
10. What is HFCS?
11. What is linked to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?
12. Where was HFCS developed?

Chapter 8 Soybean, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 8: Soybean

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1. When and where was the soybean first domesticated?
2. Where was the cradle of Chinese civilization?
3. Who is attributed to the cultivation of the soybean?
4. Which are the five sacred grains?
5. Why weren't soybeans cultivated in other parts of the world?
6. Can humans digest the protein of the soybean in a raw state?
7. What is use to make tofu?
8. Which crop is drought resistant and deep rooting?
9. Which is the top growing crop in the U.S.
10. Which is the second growing crop in the U.S.?
11. What is soybean marketed as a cooking oil?
12. Almost all of the soybeans grown in America are now of genetically modified varieties.  True or False
13. What is tofu?

Chapter 7 Beer, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 7: Beer

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1. Cities started to develop 5500 BCE in Sumer.
2. Sumer was the name of the first development.
3. Sumer was located southern region of Mesopotamia.
4. Sumer is located in Iraq today.
5. People in the early days were paid in the form of bread and beer.
6. A jar is the symbol in tablets that was used to indicate beer.
7. Ninkasi was the name of the Sumerian goddess of beer.
8. The workers of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid in bread and beer.
9. The workers of the Great Pyramid of Giza were paid in 3 loaves of bread and 2 jars of beer containing about 4 pints.
10. The first written law came from Ancient Mesopotamia.
11. The Babylonian King Hammurabi died c1750 BCE.
12. The Code of Hammurabi was written carved into a stone column and it is now in the Louvre.
13. Under the Code of Hammurabi, there were 20 different categories.
14. Out of those 20 different categories, 8 contained barley.
15. The other beer categories in the Code of Hammurabi were wheat beers, mix grain beers, black beers, and export to Egypt.
16. The Babylonian King Hammurabi was the first to adopt laws governing beer.
17. The Reinheitsgebot of 1516 are the regulations to ensure that Bavarian beer was only made from malted barley, hops, and water.
18. The Bavarian Beer Purity Law was the English name of the Reinheitsgebot of 1516.
19. The purpose of the law was to ensure that wheat and rye were used to make bread rather beer.
20. Lager is the most common beer bought around the world.
21. Lagern is Lager in German.
22. Lager means "to store."
23. Bavarians stored beer in caves during summer to keep it cool.
24. Fermentation from the bottom of the barrels occurs at low temperatures to produce a clear beer.
25. Answers will vary
26. Bavarian Brewer Josef Groll in 1842 took the bottom-fermented beer-making process to the Bahemian town of Pilsen.
27. Pilsen beer is pale lager.
28. Pilsner Urquell means the original Pilsner.

Chapter 6 Dates, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 6: Dates

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1. When did people start eating dates?
2. What did nomadic tribes eat while traveling across the Arabian and Saharan deserts?
3. Who traveled across these deserts and left us with a journal of his travels?
4. From which location in Morocco did this traveler start his journey?
5. How long did it take him to arrive at Taghaza, Northern Mali?
6. What trade were people of Taghaza involved in that their houses were made from?
7. What was the name of the southern oasis town located on the southern edge of the desert?
8. When did the Mali Empire exist?
9. When was Ibn Battuta alive?
10. What was the name of the capital city of Mali Empire?
11. How long was he in the capital city?
12. Was Timbuktu the wealthy city at this time Ibn Battuta visited?
13. What is tagine?
14. Who cooked tagine?

Chapter 5 Beef, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 5: Beef

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1. What is the name of the wild ancestor of the cattle?
2. When did the last auroch die?
3. Where did the last auroch die?
4. The people who built Stonehenge were cattle farmers.  True or False
5. Stonehenge culture had much in common with those who built the temple complex in the Orkneys.  True or False
6. What do you call the style of pottery used in Stonehenge and Orkney?
7. What is the most expensive meat in the world?
8. Where does Kobe beef come from?
9. Is Kobe beef sold abroad the real thing?
10. What is the strain of cattle used for Kobe beef?
11. What are the cows fed?
12. Where do Celtic myths have their origin?
13. Where does the Hereford Cattle come from?
14. When was the first Hereford Cattle exported to the U.S.?
15. Which two cattle breeds were replaced by the Hereford Cattle?
16. Which 3 cattle breeds replaced the Hereford cattle in Britain?
17. What does BSE mean?
18. What is BSE also known as?

Chapter 4 Lamb, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 4: Lamb

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1. Where was sheep domesticated?
2. When were sheep domesticated?
3. Where is the Fertile Crescent?
4. What is the wild ancestor of the sheep?
5. The early sheep had hairy hides.  When did sheep have wool?
6. Where were these sheep located?
7. Which do better on grasslands, sheep or goats?
8. Which do better as grazers, sheep or goats?
9. What do goats prefer to do?
10. The Qashqai are of Turkic descent.  True or False
11. What did the Qashqai make yogurt from?
12. What did the Qashqai make with the wool?
13. Where is Chelow Kabab from?
14. What was the 1688 Glorious Revolution?
15. What happened after the 1746 Battle of Culloden?
16. What did the British Government do to clan chiefs?
17. What happened to clan chiefs that stayed loyal to the British Government?
18. What formalized the ownership of land during the Agricultural Revolution?
19. What were the Enclosure Acts?
20. By some people having these rights to the land, they began clearances of people off the land.  True or False
21. What did these new owners do?
22. What was the idea behind renting farms to commercial farmers?
23. Who carried out the clearances?
24. Why did the sheep farms fail in the Highlands of Scotland?
25. What is a Haggis?
26. What percentage of New Zealand farm produce is for export?

Chapter 3 Pacific Salmon, Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 3: Pacific Salmon

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1. People were living in North America by 15,000 BP.  True or False
2. Pacific Salmon was the diet of people living in North America by 15,000 BP.  True or False
3. Some of the native tribes cooked the fish before eating.  True or False
4. Some of the native tribes ate the fish raw.  True or False
5. Some of the native tribes impaled the fish on sticks and roasted over an open fire.  True or False
6. Some of the native tribes would have the fish either air-dried on racks or smoked in wooden houses specially built for the purpose.  True or False
7. Who were the "salmon nations"?
8. Who exposed the First Nations to disease to which they had no natural immunity?
9. What percentage of the First Nations population did smallpox kill?
10. What contributed to great wealth among tribal chiefs?
11. Which country had a high demand for sea otter fur?
12. Which was the location for the canning industry in the mid 19th century?
13. What was the name of the cannery?
14. Who founded this cannery?
15. Where were the workers from in the 37 canneries in the 1880s in Oregon?
16. Who were John West's British customers?
17. Why was Westport Cannery fish popular in the U.K.?
18. When was the cannery industry killed in the Columbia River?
19. Where did the Columbia River cannery industry move to?
20. What is the name of the King Salmon?
21. What percentage of the cannery industry does Alaska

Chapter 2 Bread, Fifty Foods That Change The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 2: Bread

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1. Name the 3 most important grasses to humans.
2. Who has a theory that cooking was one of the main driving forces behind human evolution, allowing for an increase in brain size because of the greater amount of energy made available to us in food when it is cooked compared to when it is raw?
3. What is the first processed food?
4. What were the stones to grind the grain called?
5. What did the first bread look like?
6. Leavened bread was being made _________ years ago.
7. Where was leavened bread being made?
8. What was the earliest form of writing?
9. Where was the earliest form of surplus of wheat produced that allowed others to specialize in different trades?
10. What was the first type of specialized tradesmen?
11. Breweries and bakeries were usually located together about 6,000 years ago.  True or False
12. What does the "Book of Exodus" say the children of Israel left Egypt without?
13. What does the "Book of Exodus" say they ate during their flight?
14. What is matzo?
15. What is chametz?
16. What was the creation of the Jewish tradition of eating matzo?
17. In which ritual feast have three matzos on the center of the table?
18. What is a karpas?
19. What does the karpas symbolize?
20. Why is the bread dipped in salty water before being eaten?
21. What is Haroset?
22. What does Haroset look like?
23. What are the two bitter herbs?
24. What is used to signify the bitterness of slavery in Egypt?
25. What does the roasted shank bone of a lamb or goat (z'roa) stand for?
26. What does the roasted hard-boiled egg mean?
27. Bread also plays a central role in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist.  True or False
28. What type of bread did the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople believe Christ used during the Last Supper?
29. What type of bread did the Roman Catholic Church in Rome believe Christ used during the Last Supper?
30. Was there a poor harvest in France in 1789?
31. Did the price of wheat rocketed in 1789 in France?
32. Who set himself on fire in Tunisia that started the Arab Spring?

Chapter 1 Woolly Mammoth, Fifty Foods That Changes The Course of History by Bill Price

Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7

Chapter 1: Woolly Mammoth

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1. What is the Quaternary Extinction Event?
2. Which two animals did not become extinct during the Quaternary?
3. Besides the woolly mammoth, there was another woolly creature?
4. There were two reasons for this extinction.  What were they?
5. How much food would a Mammoth provide?
6. Which humans inhabited northern regions before Cro-Magnons?
7. Who discovered the Red Lady of Paviland in 1823?
8. Where was the Red Lady of Paviland found?
9. Where was Lion Man found?
10. Where are the Bluefish Caves?

Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History by Bill Price

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Chapter 1: Wolly Mammoth
Northern Europe and Siberia, 40,000 BP, large extinct mammal

Chapter 2: Bread
30,000 years ago, cooked dough of flour and water

Chapter 3: Pacific Salmon
The Pacific Northwest Coast, 15,000 years ago, Anadromous fish

Chapter 4: Lamb
The fertile crescent, c11,000 BP, livestock

Chapter 5: Beef
The fertile crescent, c7500 BCE, large ungulate mammal

Chapter 6: Dates
The Middle East and North Africa, c7000 BP, fruit of date palm

Chapter 7: Beer
Sumer, 2000 BCE, malted grains and water

Chapter 8: Soybeans
China, 5000 BCE, protein-and-oil-rich legume

Chapter 9: Corn
Southern Mexico, 5000 BCE, staple food of the region

Chapter 10: Noodles
China, 2000 BCE, thin strands of flour and water

Chapter 11: Olive Oil
The eastern Mediterranean, 12th century BCE, cooking & salad oil

Chapter 12: Spartan Black Broth
Ancient Greece, 5th Century BCE, Blood Soup

Chapter 13: Garum
The Roman Empire, 4th-5th Century CE, Fermented fish sauce

Chapter 14: Kimchi
Korea, 1st century CE, fermented vegetables

Chapter 15: Chocolate
Mesoamerica, 4th century CE, processed seeds of the cacao tree

Chapter 16: Paella
Spain, 8th century, mixed rich dish

Chapter 17: Spice
Across the East Indies, 8th century, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon

Chapter 18: Salted Herring
Baltic Sea, North Sea, North Atlantic, 12th century, preserved fish

Chapter 19: Frankfurter
Frankfurt am Main, 12th century, finely ground smoked pork sausage

Chapter 20: Peking Duck
Beijing, 14th century, roast duck

Chapter 21: Cassoulet
Languedoc, 1355, meat and bean stew

Chapter 22: Turnips
Northern Europe, 14th century, root vegetable

Chapter 23: Roquefort Cheese
France, 1411, Blue Cheese

Chapter 24: Potato
The Andean Altiplano of Peru and Bolivia, 15th century, edible tubers of Solanum Tuberosum

Chapter 25: Mayonnaise
France, 1589, cold sauce

Chapter 26: Rendang
Sumatra, 16th century, dry and spicy meat dish

Chapter 27: Sugar
New Guinea, 17th century, carbohydrate

Chapter 28: Biltong
South Africa, 17th century, cured meat

Chapter 29: Irish Stew
Ireland, 17th century, meat and vegetable stew

Chapter 30: Tea
China, 17th century, oriental infusion

Chapter 31: Hardtack
British Royal Navy, 1660s, twice-cooked biscuit

Chapter 32: Gin
Dutch Republic and Flanders, 17th century, grain-based spirit

Chapter 33: Vindaloo
Goa, 16th century, hot curry

Chapter 34: Apple Pie
18th century, fruit in a pastry crust

Chapter 35: American Whiskey
18th century, grain spirit

Chapter 36: Madeleines
19th century, small sponge cake

Chapter 37: Caviar
Caspian Sea, 19th century, cured sturgeon roe

Chapter 38: Bananas
Southeast Asia, 19th century, fruit

Chapter 39: Corned Beef
South American, 19th century, canned self-cured beef

Chapter 40: Jaffa Orange
Near the city of Jaffa, mid 19th century, fruit

Chapter 41: American Buffalo
The Great Plains of America, 19th century, large mammal

Chapter 42: Coca-Cola
1886, soft drink

Chapter 43: Hamburger
Late 19th century, ground beef in a bun

Chapter 44: Anzac Biscuits
Australia & new Zealand, 1915, oatmeal cookies

Chapter 45: Birds Eye Frozen Fish
1915, quick frozen fish

Chapter 46: Swanson TV Dinner
1953, convenience food

Chapter 47: Campbell's Soup
1962, canned soup

Chapter 48: Starbucks Coffee
Seattle, 1971, Coffee Shop Coffee

Chapter 49: Powdered Milk
1990s, Drymilk

Chapter 50: Golden Rice
Switzerland and Germany, 2000, genetically modified rice

Found at Sea by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 4
Date: September 30, 2016
Article: Found at Sea
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1. What were the names of the two ships that were part of an expedition of ships?
2. Which wreck was found in 2014?
3. Which wreck was found on September 3, 2016?
4. What were the ships looking for?
5. What is the name of the person who led the team that located the H.M.S. Erebus?
6. What is the name of the Inuit from Canada that helped with locating the H.M.S. Erebus?
7. Who found the H.M.S. Erebus?
8. Where was the H.M.S. Erebus found?
9. What is the main idea of this article? (3 points)
10. How would you take the H.M.S. Erebus out of the ice without damaging it? (3 points)
11. What explanation do you have for the ship sinking/being caught in ice? (3 points)
12. How would you monitor that the H.M.S. Erebus stays in tack for a museum? (3 points)
13. What would you suggest to Adrian Schimnowski and Sammy Kogvik? (3 points)

A Wake-Up Call by Rebecca Katzman

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 7
Date: October 28, 2016
Article: A Wake-Up Call
Author:  Rebecca Katzman
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1. Who is the daily political newsletter writer?
2. How old is the daily political newsletter writer?
3. What is the name of his online daily political newsletter?
4. How many hours during each weekday does this newsletter writer take on his online newsletter?
5. What is the name of his school?
6. In which city does he live?
7. What three categories does he write about?
8. How old was the newsletter writer when he first saw President Barack Obama’s first Inauguration?
9. What falls on Gabe’s 15th birthday?
10. How would you identify with Gabe? (3 points)
11. How would you compare your political involvement with Gabe writing the newsletter? (3 points)
12. How could you develop your own newsletter? (3 points)
13. Discuss the pros and cons of you writing your own newsletter? (3 points)
14. What could you invent that will have the same or better results than the newsletter? (3 points)
15. What is your opinion of this article? (3 points)

The Death of a King by Time for Kids

Magazine: Time for Kids
Edition: 3-4, Vol. 7, No. 7
Date: October 28, 2016
Article: The Death of a King
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1. Who died on October 13, 2016 in Thailand?
2. How old was this person?
3. For how many years did this person rule Thailand?
4. Who was the world’s longest-serving monarch?
5. How long will Thailand’s national mourning last?
6. What color will government officials wear?
7. What year was King Bhumibol Adulyadej born?
8. In what year did King Bhumibol Adulyadej start ruling Thailand?
9. How old was King Bhumibol Adulyadej when he started ruling Thailand? (2 points)
10. Why did King Adulyadej start ruling Thailand?
11. What was the name of King Bhumibol’s brother?
12. Who says the king serves as head of state?
13. Which two parties hold political power?
14. Who was the referee between the two parties when the two parties fought?
15. Who is in line to become the next king?
16. Who said the next king will be crowned at “an appropriate time”?
17. What is the main idea in this article? (3 points)
18. How would you change Thailand’s constitution in order for the king to have 1/3 of political power? (3 points)
19. What can you infer that Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn doesn’t want to be king? (3 points)
20. What would happen if Thailand did not have a king? (3 points)
21. What choice would you have made if you were Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn? (3 points)

A History of The United States by Boorstin and Kelley, Chapter 1

Book:  A History of The United States
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Chapter: 1
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1. What continent was Europe’s treasure?
2. How long would it take to reach Beijing from Venice?
3. Look at a map, where is Venice located?
4. Look at a map, where is Beijing located?
5. How would you take your treasures from Beijing to China?
6. Look at a map, where are the Azores?
7. Where was Christopher Columbus born?
8. What was Christopher Columbus’s brother’s name?
9. Look in a dictionary, what is a geographer?
10. Who is the Greek geographer that Christopher Columbus read his book?
11. What year did Bartholomeu Dias round the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa?
12. Where did Columbus form his enterprise?
13. What are caravels?
14. What were the names of the caravels?
15. When did Columbus set sail?
16. How many days was Columbus at sea?
17. When did he discover the New World?
18. What island did Columbus discover?
19. What did the natives call the island?
20. What did Columbus name it?
21. What island did Columbus hope was Japan?
22. In what island did the ship, Santa Maria, get wrecked on?
23. In what island did Columbus built a fort on, and what did he call the island?
24. How many men stayed on the island?
25. When did he set sail for home?
26. When did he arrive to Spain?
27. How many voyages did Columbus make after his first voyage?
28. What year did Columbus make his last voyage?
29. What year did Columbus die?

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Chapter 7

Book: Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
ISBN: 978-0-590-98886-5
Chapter: 7
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1. Who drank from the spring?
2. Who or what didn't drink?
3. Who carved something to mark their location?
4. Who did the first cottage go to?
5. Who fell off the tree?
6. Who shot the horse?
7. Why did they shoot the horse?
8. Who did the snake bit?
9. Who ate the poison toadstools?
10. Who cut themself?
11. At what age did Mae stop aging?
12. Who is married with two children?
13. Who went kind of crazy after Grandpa shot himself with the shotgun?
14. At the end of chapter 8, do you think Winnie believes them?  Why or why not?