New Normal Question Book Comprising Questions and Answers on All Common School Studies; Designed Expressly for Teachers Preparing for Examinations for Certificates - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON U. S. HISTORY. 1. The word history is of Greek origin, signify, ing in that language a learning or knowing by inquiry, and in English a record of past events. 2. History is divided into ancient and modern; which is also divided in civil, sacred and profane. 3. Ancient history is an account of all events that have taken place from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ. 4. Modern history embraces an account of all events from the birth of Christ until the present time. 5. Civil history is an account of the rise, continuance, and fall of empires, kingdoms, and states. 6. Sacred history is that which is contained in the Sacred Scriptures. 7. Profane history is properly the history of fabulous gods, and heroes of antiquity. 8. Ancient history is distinguished for the rise and fall of the four great empires: Assyria, Persia, Greece and Rome. 9. Modern history is distinguished for the invention of gunpowder, the art of printing, and the discovery of America. 10. The first inhabitants of America are unknown. The name given them is Mound-Builders, owing to the great mounds and earth-works to be found in different parts of the country, of which the Indians have no traditions. 11. The Indians. 12. Columbus named them "Indians," because he thought the island he had found was a part of India, or Eastern Asia. 13. The Indian is tall, straight and well proportioned. His skin is of a copper brown; his hair long, black and coarse. They were uncivilized, had no written books, no well organized society, or arts, or manufactures, or agriculture. They lived mainly by hunting and fishing, and cultivating patches of Indian corn, beans, potatoes and melons. Their great delight was in war and the chase. They lived in rude huts called wigwams, and ...
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