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 * ﻿﻿  "History" **

//What is "History"? //

 * History is the study of past events.
 * It is also a record of the life or development of a person or institution, often including an explanation.
 * History is the study of the past events.
 * History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented.
 * The branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events.
 * Something that belongs to the past.
 * Any thing recorded in the past.
 * It must be true, it really happened.

By learning about the past we can......

 * Make better choices and won't make the same mistake again.
 * We would know what is correct and wrong.[[image:2008_10_30_14_23_39_9257.jpg width="284" height="210" align="right"]]
 * We could plan the future.

And history......

 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Provides identity.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Helps us understand people, societies, changes and how our society came to be.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Is essential for good citizenship.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Is useful in the world of work.

//<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Ways of recording History //
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The reign-names of emperors.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">By Millennia, centuries and decades.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Using the Christian calendar

//<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Different kinds of history: //
<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Sources of History //
 * Art history: history of the art.
 * Local history: history of a particular town, city or province.
 * Military history: history of wars and battles.
 * Personal history: history of a particular person. (E.g. biography)
 * World history: history of the the world. (E.g. world wars)
 * Religious history:history of religions.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Historians collect different kinds of sources about the topic they are studying on. They classify the sources into __**<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">primary sources **__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">and __**<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">secondary sources **__<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">.

<span style="color: #12bee2; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">__**Primary sources**__ : a document which decribes an event by its witness or from first-hand information( newspaper, interviews , photographs ... ) <span style="color: #e944e8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">

<span style="color: #e944e8; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">__**Secondary sources**__ :a commentary that quotes or reference a primary source, without first-hand knowledge ( books, essays , commentaries ...)

//<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">Conclusion // <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">History helps us with our life, so **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">WORK HARD **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">on **<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">STUDYING HISTORY! **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">- **

<span style="color: #e8a53b; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Bosco** <span style="color: #12bee2; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Wakhe** <span style="color: #ca71f4; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Pui Pui** <span style="color: #2ecb20; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Natalie** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**LPL**
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">A letter to Mum and Dad **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Key: **

<span style="color: #ca71f4; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">**Dear Mum and Dad,** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** How are you? I'm fine but I miss you so much. I am now in ancient Egypt. I am a farmer there and I feel very tired everyday. I wake up at  **** 5 o'clock every morning and go farming. **** My home is just a tiny little hut made from straws and mud bricks. There's only one room in my hut. So, I wish I could have a bigger house. But I can't, I'm too poor. Poor me! **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** My clothes are all made from linen and my shoe (I've got only one shoe!!) is made from reeds found on the river bank of Nile. ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** I have no crops to pay the taxes because I am too hungry and I ate them all! I think I better sow seeds for some beans and garlic... (or else I have nothing to pay for the tax) And today, a guy from the palace came to my hut and asked me, "You like your nose or your ears more? You need to choose either one to be cut off NOW!!" Then...... Ha, ha. Happy April Fool, just kidding! ** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** When I was trading along the river bank with my crops yesterday, a guy took my all crops (that rat!) and ran away, so I chased him and took all of my belongings and his belongings away from him. I am soooo lucky ! I found figs' seeds, melon, wheat, garlic, barley, peas, grapes, leeks in that jerk's belongings! Oh yeah! I'm going to be rich, R-I-C-H, rich!!!!**

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** I recieved a letter from the scribe just now, it is all in hieroglyphs. Luckily, I'm smart enough to understand it. It is the pharaoh's order written by his scribe, he told me to build his pyramid from tomorrow on, so sad...... It is such a disaster (and it's just torture), I really want to go on a strike!! I cannot farm for 5 years and needed to take lots of limestone up to the pyramid. Poor me! I hope that I won't break my poor back by doing that hard labor for 5 years! Definitely not hoping a job in the** ** Quarries..... ** ======

<span style="color: #2ecb20; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: large;">**The Egyptians loved parties and games a lot. They have parties every har****vest and religious festivals. They were entertained by singers, dancers, jugglers, musician and even wrestlers! **

<span style="color: #2ecb20; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: large;">** The life here is just sooo strange and horrible, but it is quite interesting though. ** <span style="color: #2ecb20; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: large;">** I'm leaving the dumb place and come home as soon as I finish building the annoying pyramid. See you soon! **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** P.S. The guys here are all so supersticious. They worship this, they worship that. And they even believed that there is a thing called "afterlife"! The most interesting thing is that they worship dung beetles too! The laws are really strict here too, and the punishments are horrible ﻿. Last week, I saw a man that ran over a "sacred" cat by accident and he was killed! Poor him!!! **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">** Love, **