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ation links at the Best History Sites page, with animated maps and timelines.
Childhood in WWII, London, BBC site. The house is good— when you finish exploring a room, click on the left, on the house icon, to get back to the main house. That's all part of a larger BBC.co.uk site called History for Kids. So it has a British slant (as does History Mole, below) but fill in anything you wish they hadn't left out, when you discuss it with your own Australian or Canadian or Chinese or French or American kids. No problem! History is infinite, that's for sure. You've gotta start somewhere, and pretty much it doesn't matter where you start because it's all connected, like a universe-sized dot-to-dot you could never finish but you started when you were born. Or maybe before...
History can't be learned "in order," because it's never going to be orderly. It doesn't even happen in order, because often facts aren't discovered until years after incidents occur, and so the history of them unfolds and is clarified and expanded all the time. People knew zip about Pompeii until 1700-and-some years after it was buried. Someday people might know more about Amelia Earhart's disappearance or the assassination of JFK than they do now, after all who knew them personally will have been long dead.
History is an ongoing process of recording and interpretting what happened. The study of the recording of history is called "historiography." That's the history of history, and the philosophy of history.
Some people like timelines, and they're fun for browsing. Here's one on astronomy, at a site called "history mole" (more, below right). They also have a timeline on the Gregorian Calendar, which wasn't even created until (by its own reckoning) 1582, and was accepted for international use by China in 1949 (China, of course, having its own separate calendar for inter
Childhood in WWII, London, BBC site. The house is good— when you finish exploring a room, click on the left, on the house icon, to get back to the main house. That's all part of a larger BBC.co.uk site called History for Kids. So it has a British slant (as does History Mole, below) but fill in anything you wish they hadn't left out, when you discuss it with your own Australian or Canadian or Chinese or French or American kids. No problem! History is infinite, that's for sure. You've gotta start somewhere, and pretty much it doesn't matter where you start because it's all connected, like a universe-sized dot-to-dot you could never finish but you started when you were born. Or maybe before...
History can't be learned "in order," because it's never going to be orderly. It doesn't even happen in order, because often facts aren't discovered until years after incidents occur, and so the history of them unfolds and is clarified and expanded all the time. People knew zip about Pompeii until 1700-and-some years after it was buried. Someday people might know more about Amelia Earhart's disappearance or the assassination of JFK than they do now, after all who knew them personally will have been long dead.
History is an ongoing process of recording and interpretting what happened. The study of the recording of history is called "historiography." That's the history of history, and the philosophy of history.
Some people like timelines, and they're fun for browsing. Here's one on astronomy, at a site called "history mole" (more, below right). They also have a timeline on the Gregorian Calendar, which wasn't even created until (by its own reckoning) 1582, and was accepted for international use by China in 1949 (China, of course, having its own separate calendar for inter
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