REAL HISTORY BEGINS
You have probably wondered, what the world would be like if there was nothing at all.
I wondered the same thing too.
I once wondered, what the world would be like if there was no people, animals, or ts, just solid rock.
My imagination was actually scary. Because in my imagination, the earth was just a ball of fire, flaming at a long time ago.
A long, long, long time
Ago, where there was no
Human at all
No human at all? Could you imagine a world like that?
A long, long, long,
Long, long, long time ago,
Where there were no animals
At all
No animals at all? Could you imagine a world like that?
A long, long, long,
Long, long, long
Long, long, long…
(You will keep on saying long for the whole day, and the next week, and the next month, and the next year, and it would still not be long enough,)
Where there was no human, no animal,
No plants at all,
Just solid rock all over the world,
The earth would just be a ball of fire
No Human, no animal… Okay, so you know it all.
I tried to run to my mother and father’s room just to get that scary thought out of my head.
But now the history will really begin.
There are many kinds of guesses in history. So how do you suppose I know all of this history that happened so long ago? I’m not, I’m only guessing about them. There are different kinds of guesses. If you hold on to one penny in one hand, the other one empty and have someone to guess which one has the penny in it; that is one type of guess. The guess could be wrong, or it could be right, it is just luck.
Another type of guess is guessing about what happened a long time ago. For example, we don’t actually know if our guesses are correct, we are just guessing about them.
Do you know where the word “history” came from? His-story… A boy named it so.
The world started as a small star, and then it started to grow big, until it became really big. Since it was so close to the sun, it became on fire. Then the cold air whooshed over the earth, causing it to rain. It rained and rained for thousand of years. The rain became the ocean and lake and ponds and rivers. Then the earth started to change. It started to form mountains and hills, and holes. After that, the exciting part came. The first tree was grown! It started to make other trees, until forests were formed. When that was done, the nitrogen and oxygen started to form the atmosphere. Some ts began to grow. Then the first animals came! They were little microorganisms that lived in water…
When the earth formed, life began.
When the first people came alive, they formed the Stone Age. The Stone Age was hard, for everybody lived in caves. They ate the dead meat of animals. They drank the warm blood of mammals. They slept on the wet leaves in forests.
Do you know how copper was found? Well it was actually found by accident.
When you rub your hands together, they become warm; when you rub your hands together rapidly, they become hot; when you rub two sticks together, they become warm; when you rub two sticks together rapidly, they become hot; when you rub two sticks together even more rapidly, and if you keep them long enough, then will set on fire…
One time a man of the Stone Age was making a fire. He put some rocks around the sticks to look pretty. But it just happened that that was not just ordinary rock, they were oar. When the fire was on, it melted the oar, and out came the copper. At first copper was made to ornaments because they were so pretty. They some people found that copper could be made to bronze, and the Bronze Age began. The Bronze Age lasted for almost 3000 years. After that, somebody discovered Iron, and the Iron Age began. People soon found out that iron was better then either copper or bronze.
You probably also heard about the Golden Age. Which was when people lived happily, and everybody was good and merry, and everything was beautiful. But of course, we think that the Golden Age only exists in fairy tales.
Now after talking about that much, we haven’t talked about language. So how about chatting about alphabet for a moment; here is a tale:
There was once a carpenter named Cadmus. Once, he was working on something, when he wanted a tool, that he had left at home. Picking up a chip of wood, he wrote something on it, handed it to his slave, told him to bring the chip to his home, and hand it to his wife. The slave, wondering, did as he was told. Once he handed the chip to Cadmus’s wife, she looked at the chip, and, without saying a word, handed the tool to the amazed slave, who thought that the chip in some mysterious way, had spoken the message. When he returned to Cadmus with the tool, he begged for the remarkable chip. When it was given to him, he hung it around his neck for a charm.
That was the old tale of the person, who they say invented the alphabet. We do know that the Greeks like to make up such stories, and we think no one had invented the alphabet. However we do know that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet, and Cadmus was a Phoenician. Their alphabet was on which ours was based.
You probably call it you ABC, but the Phoenicians had harder names for them. They called A----alpha, B----beta, and so on; which is why we now call it the alphabet.
Now that we have talked so much about history, we can finally give it a rest. If you want to know more about history, you can read my other essays which I had wrote before. If you can’t find it, I will be writing more in the future.
(History is really interesting.)
但觉得朗读绘本或播放有声书给小孩子还是有益的。