African Trade Beads Teens25 making two fortunes and losing

making two fortunes and losing one along the way

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African Trade Beads Teens25 making two fortunes and losingFirst made and worn 120,000 years ago, beads were originally made of natural materials stones, shells, wood and have been used for adornment, currency and burial offerings. Trade beads of polished stones and shells have a history thousands of years old, but the first glass beads were made in Egypt as cheaper mimics of precious stones. A thriving glass bead manufacturing industry began in Murano (Venice) in 1291, and the trade spread to Holland,