Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Around 600 B.C. When Lehi left Jerusalem, the rest of the world was…

The first polo game was recorded in north Persia about this time.

The nomadic Scythians bordered the Hallstatt Culture in the East. They introduced to the Celts the custom of wearing trousers.

Aesop said: "We hang the petty thieves, but appoint the great ones to public office."

Analysis of pottery from this time indicated that Mayans made cocoa drinks as early as this time.

Turquoise was first mined in the American southwest about this time and began to show up in Mesoamerica.

The first horse race on record was in the Olympic Games of Greece and the first prize was a "woman of well-rounded domestic skills."

1 comment:

  1. Well rounded domestic skills, huh? I would have been in trouble, then!

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