Indigo had a significant impact on the world through its effect on Champaran Peace Revolts, Eliza Lucas Pickney increasing the slave trade routes to include shipments of indigo from North America, and the trade of indigo through Muslim cultures and European cultures.
Indigo is a plant that is used to create dyes for many different purposes, such as to dye clothing, dyes for ink, and dyes as a paint. Indigo has been around the world in different places for thousands of years, but the one primary indigo species that is used is from parts of southern Asia, in areas like India. Indigo has religious purposes, because the color was prized for many cultures, and it was similar to the value of gold at one point of time in Europe.
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Religiously, indigo has been a part of almost every known large religion. Socially, indigo was once prized as much as gold, and the workers that created the precious blue dyes were treated similarly to those working in the gold industry. Intellectually, indigo was once a major part of trade routes, along with being a major component in many world economies.
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Indigo is a plant that is grown throughout the world. Different species of the indigo have been found throughout the world for thousands of years, starting before the Greco-Roman era. Indigo has impacted the world in a number of ways.
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