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Gold history
People have been using gold to make jewelry since the Stone
Age. You can find it just lying in little lumps in streams here and
there. And gold is always pretty and yellow, even when it is just lying
in the stream. But to get more gold you have to find gold mines
underground.
One early source of gold was Ethiopia. The Egyptians got their gold by
trading for it with the Nubians in Ethiopia, as well as from their own
mines.
And there were also gold mines in Rumania. That's one reason why the
Romans conquered it.
Gold is easy to work, but it is not strong enough to make tools or
weapons out of. For that you need bronze or iron.
More information about the history of gold in California:
California gold history : In the early 1840s, California was a distant outpost that only a handful of Americans had seen. The sleepy port that would become San Francisco had just a few hundred residents.
California gold rush history: Most of the world's gold is locked deep underground--embedded in hard rock. But California gold was different
Gold mining changes: As the gold became more difficult to extract, profound changes in California took root
Gold rush impact on California: Although the gold in the California hills eventually ran out--the impact of the gold rush era lives on