History in Pictures,
Part I
History is about what
happened
a long, long time ago.
A long time ago, things
looked different. Here is how
some things looked.
There were no cars.
Some people rode
horses.
Sometimes horses
pulled carriages,
and sometimes horses
pulled wagons, or
carts.
Many poor farmers,
called peasants, just
walked.
Many streets were
muddy.
Most people did not
live in cities.
Instead, they lived in
the country, and
worked on farms.
Peasants were very
poor, and their houses
were not fancy.
But there were rich
people, called kings,
princes and princesses,
and aristocrats,
who lived in huge,
fancy castles
and palaces.
Kings and queens were
the richest people
in their country, called
a kingdom. They
ruled. That means
they could tell
everybody what to do.
Kings wanted to make
their kingdoms bigger
and bigger.
They wanted more and
more land.
So kings fought each
other!
Kings got armies of
men together
and armies fought big
fights, called battles!
There were no guns.
So the soldiers in
armies fought with
swords
and archers used
bows and arrows,
and other deadly
weapons. “Deadly”
means people died.
After a king won
many battles,
sometimes, he combined
many kingdoms—and
made an empire.
The End