Kids' Explanations *Kids explanations: No humans were born during the first of the world because this was the pre-stork age.
*Ancient was a long time ago, maybe even before that.
*B.C. and A.D. had a big battle about 2000 years ago. A.D. won and we have been on A.D. time ever since.
*Thence is like then, only much longer ago.
*Descendents are those people who presently reside in the future tense.
*The Christian martyrs were thrown to the lions---fathers and children, too.
*It may sound strange that Socrates was born in 470 and died in 399, but everybody in those days lived backwards.
*When the use of fire was thought of by Early Man, what he thought of it depended on what it was doing.
*Rich people of Long Ago couldn’t afford beautiful printed books. The mainest reason was they weren’t invented yet.
*The civilizations of the Saxons and Visigoths were subsequently previous to each other.
*Well cooked meat was rare for the cave man.
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