Known for playing mostly the piano
Freed slaves or the enslaved negroes/black farmers migrated to western territories because the west was new and the United States Agrarian Reform had promised them a free land which is forty (40) acres and a mule under the Homestead Act of 1862.
A. <span>It created widespread blending of cultures.
</span>That brief but thorough empire-building campaign changed the world: It spread Greek ideas and culture<span> from the Eastern Mediterranean to Asia. Historians call this era the “</span>Hellenistic<span> period.” (The word “</span>Hellenistic<span>” comes from the word Hellazein, which means “to speak Greek or identify with the Greeks.”)</span>
Lighting kerosene lamps. Petroleum in the form of tar from oil seeps in the ground were used to seal boats and the roofs of houses.
