Gum: Well-Known In Today's Societies

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Gum is a chewy candy like food that people are able to chew but not eat. It can be sweet, minty, or sour. Gum is a candy that is very well known in today's societies. But little do people know gum has been around longer than they think. Gum has been around since ancient greece and many people from ancient greece would chew on bark and sap off of Mastic tree bark. But people in ancient greece weren't the only people to chew forms of gum. There were people like the mayans, Eskimos, and even south americans. Each one of these different groups would use different things as a form of gum. Mayans would use chicle and Eskimos would use blubber. Different societies would use different things based off of geography. But even though gum has been made

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