Turkey(country)

Calling the turkey a 'turkey' is a geographic mix-up. Europeans confused the American bird with guinea fowl imported via Turkey. Yet in Turkish it is 'hindi' — 'India' — and in parts of India it is 'Peru.' Each language blames a different wrong homeland.

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, built around 12,000 years ago, features T-shaped stone pillars weighing 10–20 tons each. It predates agriculture, suggesting humans first gathered not for food but for religious reasons.