Hemp is  mentioned in ancient Egyptian medical texts such as the Ebers papyrus as well as other places for use in making rope
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before 1920 marijuana was extensively grown by the USA and Mexico for the production of fibre.which made a durable material,cheap and it does not scorch,that was used for all the  jeans,ropes,sails for the sailing ships and millions of jute bags that were used by millions of farmers,representing a multimillion dollars business.\n\nafter 1920 with the coming of synthetic materials,which were products of the petrolium business ,which were owned by the families or associates of most of the presidents,\n\nthis competitive comodity could not be allowed to continue to exist,\nand the war on Mariujana was on.\n\nthe drug factor although it has been proven beyond doubt  by countless tests that it was a relative harmless substance compared to sigarettes,alcohol and others,was blatently ignored and relentlessly the war continued to this day.\nalthough it does worry the church, since people tended to stay up all night and question religious and philosohical beliefs.some times coming to uncomplementary conclusions of what was socially accepted.\n\nalcohol puts people to sleep and they dont question the given standards.\n\ntoday Mariujana fibre is making a come back in Europe and Africa and produce designer pantalons and shirts for very high prices because the quality is superior than linnen.\n\nthese fibre plants do not produce drugs to speak of and are worthless for the drug market .it is the fibre that is the value.\n\nand organically speaking it is an exelent plant to recuporate tired soils ,after cattle and corn field have practically destroyed the land,because the plant is deep rooted grows on most altitudes,and breaks open or loosens compacted soils as well as secreting nitrogen..
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http://www.itmonline.org/arts/herbdrug.htm
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Slavery has been around way before the Americas were found. Egyptians built their pyramids from slave labor. Ignorance is bliss and you are the most blissful person I've seen in a while.
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Iron Man by Black Sabbath\n\nThe first signs of use of iron come from the Sumerians and the Egyptians, where around 4000 BCE [citation needed], a few items, such as the tips of spears, daggers and ornaments, were being fashioned from iron recovered from meteorites \n\nAncient Greeks considered the Halybes to be "the inventors of iron" [citation needed; "the Greeks" are not a homogeneous group of people publishing one idea]. The people of the Caucasian Isthmus, Khaldi people (or Khalib/Halyb and Halisones by Strabo) were one of the oldest west-Georgian tribes (4th to 2nd millennia BC).\n\nBy 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE, increasing numbers of smelted iron objects (distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the product) appear in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Egypt[citation needed]. However, their use appears to be ceremonial, and iron was an expensive metal, more expensive than gold[citation needed, especially as regards to pricing concerning gold, as the word is often confused with "bronz" in ancient texts].
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Most medicines involved leeching, superstitions and old plant medicines. They were mainly based on tales and stories or myths from knowledge known. In the Elizabethan age, there were a few more medicines known but most of them were plants grounded into powders and tooken with wines.
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If you want a list of Phrmaceutical companies in Egypt:\nhttp://www.yellowpages.com.eg/CategoryDisplay.asp?CatID=2900&Ch=\n\nAbout the companies of Ginseng, check this page:\nhttp://www.egydoc.com/sites/egydoc.com/main/pharmapage.asp?char=g&num=2\nYou will find company names notebaly Pharco, Healthy Line International , Adco and Mepaco.\n\nDirect links to companies provided beneath.\nHope that helped
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try the egyptian yellow pages.
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http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~ancient/chron.htm\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_table_goddesses_egypt.htm\nhttp://chahttp://hypermart.net/fullsize/egyptfs.gif\nhttp://www.teacheroz.com/egypt.htm\nhttp://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/case/about/gods.html
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I can't give you any websites but I would suggest that you research ancient dyeing techniques....for instance the use of some plants to produce indigo....
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Our US constitution and Dec of Independ are written on hemp cloth, so our country used to cultivate it too. One President, think it was Jefferson, wanted to make it a law that every land owner grow some hemp. It would solve a lot of problems if it was legal and no you can't get high from it.
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ah yes, Indian hemp. I've only ever heard two cases in the time I've looked at the issue of industrial hemp. I found references to one of the cases for the source. \n\nThe ones I've seen have the DEA ripping up industrial hemp and telling the media that they have stopped a marijuana supply. Legally there is no difference between growing industrial hemp and marijuana. \n\nThe motivations the Indians have is that hemp is a legal cash crop in the US that is a greater value than all but tobacco. It's value is somewhere in the hundreds of dollars per ton and several tons per acre. Unfortunately it is illegal to grow in the US. You may eat, wear, buy, sell, but not grow industrial hemp in the US. Thus it would be a nice cash crop to grow in the US. Instead we purchase raw industrial hemp from Canada were it is legal to grow.   \n\nI'm afraid I can't speak of reasons why Indians might want it for the marijuana drug, I can't think of any arguments I may have seen on that topic.
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1. Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium spp.), a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and the Americas. The fiber is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile, which is the most widely used natural-fiber cloth in clothing today. The English name descends from the Arabic word "al qutun", (hence also came the Spanish word "algodón") meaning cotton fiber. Africa and South America are large providers of cotton.\n\nCotton fiber (once processed to remove seeds and traces of wax, protein, etc.) consists of nearly pure cellulose, a natural polymer. Cotton production is very efficient, in the sense that, ten percent or less of the weight is lost in subsequent processing to convert the raw cotton bolls into pure fiber. The cellulose is arranged in a way that gives cotton fibers a high degree of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fibre is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs. When the cotton boll (seed case) is opened the fibres dry into flat, twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for spinning into a fine yarn.\n\n2. Aphids - Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and now occur earlier in the growing season.\nMirids - Mirids are a type of leaf bugs about six millimetres long which can damage young cotton seedlings\nAphids and mirids are potentially the most serious of the emerging pests. Other pests are also being observed to gauge their potential pest status including the green vegetable bug, cotton stainer, and the cotton harlequin bug.\n\n3. Until World War II, the Cotton South remained poor, backward, and un-mechanized. With minor exceptions, most tasks -- plowing, cultivating, and finally harvesting cotton -- were done by hand. Though sharecropping stifled the region's attempts to mechanize, too many farmers, both tenants and owners, were trying to survive on small, uneconomical farms, trapping themselves in poverty. From 1910 to 1970 the Great Migration, which included whites as well as blacks, reduced the region's oversupply of small farmers and embodied a tremendous success story for both migrants and the region itself. The mechanical cotton picker played an indispensable role in the transition from the prewar South of over-population, sharecropping, and hand labor to the capital-intensive agriculture of the postwar South.\n\nHope that helped.
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Well, some basic concepts from the ancient times have been\nGreat Pyramids- represent man honoring king/pharoah\nGreek Parthenon- represent man honoring humanity\nNotre Dam- represent man honoring God\nHope this helps.  My social studies class was talking about this the other day!
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I am a physician. I work in China and we have a plant here that is known as Angelica sinensis. Chinese women have used this for centuries for different reasons. First, they use it for abnormal menstrual cycles and dysmenorrhea, but it is used for fertility as well. They take the herb for several months and then stop using it. Often the woman becomes pregnant. Now of course, there can be physical causes to prevent pregnancy but if the plumbing is good, it works. It is also used by women who have spontaneous abortions....the Angelica creates a stronger vascular bed in the womb to retain the fetus to full term. A company in Canada was marketing the product and if you wish I will be happy to send you the name.
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E: Egyptologist, Egyptian, Egypt\n\nJ: Jebel Barkal, small mountain that marked the southern limit of the Egyptian empire\n\nL: literature - Egyptian literature included:\n\nc. 1800 BC: Story of Sinuhe and Ipuwer papyrus \nc. 1600 BC: Westcar Papyrus \nc. 1400 BC: Tulli Papyrus \nc. 1300 BC: Ebers papyrus \nc. 1180 BC: Papyrus Harris I \nc. 1000 BC: Story of Wenamun \n\nT: Tut, as in King Tutankhamun of the 18th dynasty, only of minor hystorical significance but the very celebrated "Boy King"\n\nU: Unsolved mysteries of Egypt: the pyramids perfection \n\nV: Victorious Egypt, when In the Battle of Megiddo of 609 BC, the forces of Egypt fought those of the Kingdom of Judah.\n\nX: The letter X, one of the many letters believed to have evolved from Egyptian Hyroglificis.  The original form of samekh may have been an Egyptian hieroglyph for the Djed column,
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A soap-like material found in clay cylinders during the excavation of ancient Babylon is evidence that soapmaking was known as early as 2800 B.C. Inscriptions on the cylinders say that fats were boiled with ashes, which is a method of making soap, but do not refer to the purpose of the "soap." Such materials were later used as hair styling aids. \n\nThe early Greeks bathed for aesthetic reasons and apparently did not use soap. Instead, they cleaned their bodies with blocks of clay, sand, pumice and ashes, then anointed themselves with oil, and scraped off the oil and dirt with a metal instrument known as a strigil. They also used oil with ashes. Clothes were washed without soap in streams. \n\nSoap got its name, according to an ancient Roman legend, from Mount Sapo, where animals were sacrificed. Rain washed a mixture of melted animal fat, or tallow, and wood ashes down into the clay soil along the Tiber River. Women found that this clay mixture made their wash cleaner with much less effort. \n\nThe ancient Germans and Gauls are also credited with discovering a substance called soap, made of tallow and ashes, that they used to tint their hair red.
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My link of the day on my blog. All about plants and herbs. \n\nhttp://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/