History
Iron Age for Kids: Tools, Hillforts and Tribes
The Iron Age is the last part of prehistory. It is when iron took the place of bronze for tools and weapons.…
Bronze Age for Kids: Metal, Trade and Burials
The Bronze Age is when people first made tools and weapons from metal. Bronze is copper mixed with a little tin, and…
New Stone Age for Kids: Farming, Homes and Tools
The New Stone Age is when people stopped hunting and started farming. Instead of following animals and picking wild plants, they grew…
Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) Facts for Kids
The Middle Stone Age is the short middle part of the Stone Age. In Britain it ran from about 9600 BC to…
Old Stone Age for Kids: Tools, People and Art
The Old Stone Age is the first and longest part of the human story. It began more than three million years ago,…
How to Make a Stone Age Weapon
To make a Stone Age weapon, people chose stone that breaks cleanly, such as flint. They chipped it into a sharp point,…
Ancient Egypt Facts for Kids
Ancient Egypt was a kingdom along the River Nile in north-east Africa. It lasted about 3,000 years, from around 3100 BC until…
History of England Timeline for Kids
The history of England runs from the first people here, around 900,000 years ago, to the country you can visit now. England…
Cave Paintings in the Stone Age: The First Artists
Cave paintings are pictures that Stone Age people painted or carved on cave walls, mostly between about 40,000 and 14,000 years ago.…
Why Is Dominican Independence Day Celebrated?
Dominican Independence Day is celebrated on 27 February because on that day in 1844, the Dominican Republic declared independence from Haiti, after…
Old Stone Age Tools and Weapons for Kids
Old Stone Age tools were made by chipping stone into sharp edges. The oldest known are about 3.3 million years old, from…
New Stone Age Tools and Weapons
The New Stone Age, or Neolithic, was when people first became farmers, starting about 10,000 BCE in the Middle East and about…
Neolithic Stone Age Houses
Neolithic houses were the first permanent homes, built when people became farmers in the New Stone Age. They were made from local…
9/11 Facts for Kids: What Happened on September 11, 2001
On 11 September 2001, attackers hijacked four passenger planes in the United States. Two hit the World Trade Center towers in New…
4th of July Facts for Kids
The 4th of July celebrates the day in 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, mainly written by Thomas…
Air Force Facts for Kids
The United States Air Force became a separate military service on 18 September 1947. Before that, America’s military flyers were part of…
Memorial Day Facts for Kids
Memorial Day is a US holiday on the last Monday in May that honours people who died serving in the armed forces.…
When Was Zero Created?
Zero was not invented all at once. The Babylonians used a placeholder mark by about 400 BC, and the Maya had a…
Aboriginal Australians Facts for Kids
Aboriginal peoples are among Australia’s First Peoples, together with Torres Strait Islander peoples. They have lived in Australia for more than 65,000…
Israel–Palestine War Facts for Kids
The Israel–Palestine conflict is a long dispute between Israelis and Palestinians over land at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It…
