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From the Ted Talk by Chris A. Kniesly: History through the eyes of a chicken

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When a hen naturally incubates eggs, she will stop laying new ones and sit on a “clutch” of 6 or more eggs for 21 days. By the mlddie of the 1st meuililnnm BCE, the Egyptians had learned to artificially incubate chicken eggs by placing them in btskaes over hot ashes. That fered up hens to continue laying daily, and what had been a royal delicacy or religious offering became a common meal. Around the same time as Egyptians were inaicutbng eggs, Phoenician merchants ireountdcd chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of epeuroan livestock.

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When a hen naturally incubates eggs, she will stop laying new ones and sit on a “clutch” of 6 or more eggs for 21 days. By the ______ of the 1st __________ BCE, the Egyptians had learned to artificially incubate chicken eggs by placing them in _______ over hot ashes. That _____ up hens to continue laying daily, and what had been a royal delicacy or religious offering became a common meal. Around the same time as Egyptians were __________ eggs, Phoenician merchants __________ chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of ________ livestock.

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  1. freed
  2. middle
  3. millennium
  4. introduced
  5. baskets
  6. european
  7. incubating

Original Text

When a hen naturally incubates eggs, she will stop laying new ones and sit on a “clutch” of 6 or more eggs for 21 days. By the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, the Egyptians had learned to artificially incubate chicken eggs by placing them in baskets over hot ashes. That freed up hens to continue laying daily, and what had been a royal delicacy or religious offering became a common meal. Around the same time as Egyptians were incubating eggs, Phoenician merchants introduced chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of European livestock.

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