rubber

So rubber vulcanization was done by some people in the Yucatan long before Goodyear. Suppose this technology was brought back to Europe; could this have affected technological development in the Spanish/Hapsburg Empire and around the world? Were there any early machines that would have benefited...

So, according to Wikipedia, rice farming reached quite a long way, to the point of reaching Persia, (apparently in the region of Parthia) in the fourth century BC,and maybe even Anatolia in the early centuries AD. There is also a species of Dandelion known as the Kazakh Dandelion which is...

Chapter 1: Prelude The lands where the Republic of Acre is located today were, until the mid-19th century, occupied only by indigenous tribes, despite the treaty of Madrid in 1750 formalizing a new demarcation of lands between Portuguese America and the other Spanish colonies, the...