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Conversation in an Asian medicine store

All over Asia, you will find market booths or stores filled with dried spices, dried animal parts, and flowers. These are used to create medicine and home remedies. At the beginning of this conversation, we are talking about a fish stomach. There are apparently...

Format: audio

Amadas and Barlowe explore the Outer Banks

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.5

On April 27, 1584, Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe left the west coast of England in two ships to explore the North American coast for Sir Walter Raleigh. The party of explorers landed on July 13, 1584, on the North Carolina coast just north of Roanoke Island, and claimed the land in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Captain Barlowe's report describes the land and the people he encountered.

Format: journal

Spain and America: From Reconquest to Conquest

In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.1

In 1491, no European knew that North and South America existed. By 1550, Spain -- a small kingdom that had not even existed a century earlier -- controlled the better part of two continents and had become the most powerful nation in Europe. In half a century of brave exploration and brutal conquest, both Europe and America were changed forever.

Format: article

By David Walbert.

Colonial food items

This photograph from the Alamance Battleground Historic Site in Alamance County, N.C. shows colonial-era tools for food preparation and articles of food that were important in the colonial era. These include a bowl of coffee beans, a wooden and metal hand-mill,...

Format: image/photograph

Woman crushing spices, Bolghatty Island, Cochin, India

A woman crushes spices for a meal on Bolghatty Island, Cochin, India. She uses a cylindrical roller on a stone block. Two children watch her from the background, smiling earnestly and exuberantly. The hand of another child is visible at the corner of the photo....

Format: image/photograph

Olaudah Equiano remembers West Africa

In Colonial North Carolina, page 4.4

Excerpt from a book written by a freed slave in the late eighteenth century, with memories of his boyhood in Guinea. Describes the government, culture, religion, architecture, and agriculture of the region. Primary source includes historical commentary.

Format: book

Commentary and sidebar notes by Shane Freeman.

The United States in the 1790s

In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.3

The new national government began in unity, with George Washington's election to the presidency. But divisions within Washington's government, between Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, led to the creation of the nation's first political parties.

Format: article

Identifying sequence with Little Jack Horner

In Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach, page 8

In this kindergarten lesson plan, students gain experience identifying the sequence of events in a story using the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner."

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)

By Lisa Wright.

Resources on the web

Petra: Lost City of Stone

This exhibit contains informational text, images, and interactive panoramic views that look at the ancient peoples of Petra and their daily life including their religion, economy, and architectural structures. Find out what happened under Roman rule and during... (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: American Museum of Natural Histroy

Renaissance

The Renaissance captures the imagination of many us with mysterious stories about the golden mean, the transition of copying manuscripts by hand into the birth of printing, and explorations into Asia for exotic spices and silks. This site covers the emergence... (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

Provided by: Annenberg Media

Spices in your favorite foods

Studying spices is a tasty way for students to learn about natural resources, trade, and our use of international products. In this lesson students will discover the importance of spices in history and will focus on the significance of spices in the foods... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)

Provided by: Xpeditions

Spices of the world

This Xpeditions lesson teaches students that ingredients in the food they eat come from all over the world. They find out where some commonly used spices originated and discuss what the world would be like without any spices. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Social Studies)

Provided by: National Geographic