1600 BC: Genesis 34

Genesis 34 has more to do with politics than economics. It describes a world which had no police or courts. A member of another tribe rapes Dinah. Her brothers kill everyone in the rapist's tribe, in what could be thought of as Bronze Age criminal procedure.


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1941, August 19th: Baseball game at Ebbets Field between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates

Recorded by Norman Rockwell on the cover of the The Saturday Evening Post April 23, 1949

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1347 Burghers of Calais : a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin records an event during the wars, often called the Hundred Years War, between England and France for control of the north coast of France.

Rodin created the work in the 1880’s. Casts of the work are in museums in the United States, England, France, Japan and You Tube


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1990 Making Tamales by Carmen Lomas Garza shows people making tamales, maybe at Christmas; but we can't tell from the picture what the season is supposed to be.

The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA


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This is cool I love that painting.

Fontana

1880 Dakota Territory, Healthcare (created 1974)

"Doctor's Lady" , an episode from Little House on the Prairie's first season has a scene in which Doc Baker delivers a baby. Before the birth he washes his hands and holds them up like a doctor before surgery. We wonder if doctors in the 1880s would have washed the hands. Or did the Dakota Territory have doctors and not midwives?


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9000 BC: A picture, (the eighth one on the webpage) in a group of pictures known as the Altay rock paintings in China shows hunters encircling animals like cattle and horses. At least three cattle lay on the ground, shot by spears; another five cattle and horses remain standing but have been struck by spears and are under attack. Some of the people in this picture hold triangular shields, some hold clubs, some are even disguised as beasts. None of the people have bows and arrows.

The images were made at about the same time as the paintings at Altamira. Probably they don't appeal to modern taste like the Altamira images, but they show more about the culture of the hunters.


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Economy of the United States, especially Tennessee according to Ernie Ford

General economy including, credit (share cropping), farming, housing (shack), schooling (eighth grade), religion (Christianity), retirement (pension), transportation (automobile, railroad),
“I’ve Been to Georgia on a Fast Train”

Agriculture corn, cattle “Oh What a Beautiful Day” This is not Ernie Ford, but it’s a pretty picture

Agriculture Cotton “Pickin’ Time”

credit “Sixteen Tons”

food biscuits, custard “Foot of the Bed”

food doves, rabbits, hickory nuts, squirrels “Shotgun Boogie”

food biscuits, ham, milk, possum
“How Many Biscuits”

food rattlesnakes (tastes like chicken?) “Rattlesnake Daddy”

fuel coal mining “Sixteen Tons”

housing in Tennessee “Foot of the Bed”

housing in New York City, I Love Lucy

immigration “Wayfaring Pilgram”

media saloon
“Sunday Night in Tennessee” , “Dim Lights, Thick Smoke” , This song has the same theme as Grandma Dee’s story “Inuyao and the Lingayan Man” .

media radio “Muletrain” , We wonder if this is the kind of radio everyone watches in Grandma Dee’s story “Ona Mae and the Burnt Man”

media 1950s CDs “Muletrain”

religion “What a friend We Have” , “Rock of Ages”

transportation by wagon (This sounds more like 19th century Western United States) “Muletrain”

transportation by river “Shenandoah”

transportation by railroad “I’ve Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” “I’ve Been to Georgia on a Fast Train”


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1873: “Burlaks on Volga” by Ilya Repin
Wikipedia , song “Volga Boatmen” sung by Paul Robson .


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