before the egyptians: the gradeschool book

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Before The Egyptians

By Graeme Boyce


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Once upon a time, during our last Ice Age,about 65 million years after the dinosaurs

had disappeared, many people lived people lived aroundthe Earths lush and fertilelush and fertile equatorial belt.


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They lived together in coastal communitiescoastal communities ,and explored, settled and traded across the

continentscontinents for thousands of years beforedisaster disaster changed everything.


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The huge glaciers glaciers that had slowly coveredthe Northern and Southern hemispheres for

a hundred thousand years one day began toone day began to suddenly melt suddenly melt .


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This mysterious global catastrophecatastrophe alsocaused the overnight extinction of large

mammals like the Sabre Tooth Cat, Giant Sabre Tooth Cat, Giant Ground Sloth and Wooly MammothGround Sloth and Wooly Mammoth .


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People who had once lived happily together exploring their bodies, their world and their bodies, their world and

their universetheir universe now had to move againand again in order to survive.


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As volcanoes, earthquakes and tidal wavesvolcanoes, earthquakes and tidal waves continued to devastate their lands,

survivors among them knew they mustadapt without the benefit of progress onceenjoyed by all.


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The remaining intelligentsia, who had been previously mapping the revolving skiesmapping the revolving skies for

many generations, warned of greater destructiondestruction in the years to come.


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Entrusted travelers Entrusted travelers were sent to notify anyother survivors and ensure that the human

race would not suffer the same fate caused by celestial objectscelestial objects both aligning andimpacting.


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Some searched high ground high ground and some took to the seathe sea , disappearing over the horizonthe horizon in

the hopes of one day finding stability.


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A knowledge of astronomy enabledmessengersmessengers to circumnavigate the world the world ,

but as leaders vanished, so did their accumulated knowledge of the arts and the arts and sciences sciences .


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Over several generations the melting Ice Agecaused ocean levels to riseocean levels to rise globally and

people would find no coast safeno coast safe .


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While living in cavesliving in caves , children would hear stories of a great past, about wonderful

cities of buildings, gods and palacesbuildings, gods and palaces .


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They all chipped stone to make the mostrudimentary but effective tools and tools and

weaponsweapons , and to keep their fires burning fires burning brightly day and night.


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Eventually sons and daughters bundled reedstogether and sat atop logs to float across float across

water water , one day harnessing the powerful harnessing the powerful wind wind and currents.


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Many millennia after the Ice Age had begunto recede, Ice Dams Ice Dams that retained massive

glacial lakes finally collapsed finally collapsed .


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Without warning, violently and quickly,enormous floodsenormous floods swept away anything in

their paths, leaving nothing alive in their wake. Only the very lucky survived lucky survived .


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For many centuries those who did surviveforaged and fought for food fought for food , shelter and

knowledge; some found evidenceevidence of their former civilizations along the way.


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Eventually, they began to manage other manage other people people , as people do, and new citiesnew cities were

raised and new economies born.


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Some farmed farmed , some fished fished and some hunted hunted to feed their growing communities; their

best taught, and their leaders became kingskings .


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Administrators Administrators and ambassadorsambassadors alikespread their vision and expertise far and

wide, developing loyal citizensloyal citizens and feared feared armiesarmies to enforce their expansionistinterests.


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There are many individual stories of pain and bravery, of love and sacrifice, brutality and

fanaticism; but mostly of luck and timing luck and timing .


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Among the list of suddenlies that appear inthe human record are: alphabetsalphabets , language,laws and literature; pigments and paintings paintings , sculpture and architecturearchitecture ;threads, sewing weaving and fabrics fabrics ;irrigation, farming and agricultureagriculture ;

mining, smelting and jewelry jewelry ; mythology,history and religion; arithmetic, geometry geometry and commerce; navigationnavigation and astronomy.


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The ancient Egyptians revered gods who hadfound and brought forward the wisdom of

the long-ago ages before the first Pharaohwas crowned, perhaps one day whilebeachcombing beachcombing or chasing a rabbit chasing a rabbit .

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