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Pourquoi means "Why?" in French. Pourquoi stories have been around as folktales for many years dating back to our Native Americans. Mrs. Jepsen's third grade class worked hard to create their own, original Pourquoi tales. Each story was written by a group of students and answers the wonderings of "why" or "how" questions about animals.

Native American language renewal Native American culture Native American nations TEXT Pourquoi Tales How Daylight Came To Be: Salishan legend about how Ant Woman won daytime from the Creator. Gluskabe Changes Maple Syrup: Abenaki myth about the origins of maple syrup. Indian Summer: Abenaki pourquoi story about the origin of Indian summer.

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Oracle Bone Ancient China is one of the places where writing appears to have developed independently, along with Mesopotamia, which developed cuneiform, and Egypt and the civilization of the Maya, where hieroglyphs developed. The earliest examples of ancient Chinese writing come from oracle bones at Anyang, a Shang Dynasty capital, and contemporary bronze inscriptions.

Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China : The 'Zhou Bi Suan Jing', by Christopher Cullen (1996). By a specialist, for adults, about a Chinese astronomy book from the Han Dynasty in the first century AD. But really it covers Chinese astronomy from the Stone Age to about 1600 AD.

Kung fu - 'kung' meaning 'energy' and 'fu' meaning 'time' - is a Chinese martial art whose recorded history dates back to around 525 AD, during the Liang dynasty. The man credited with introducing martial arts to China is said to be an Indian monk known as Bodhidarma (who is also known as Do Ma or Buddha, 506-556 AD).

People in China were using written numbers by about 1500 BC, in the Shang Dynasty. This is about two thousand years later than people began to write numbers in West Asia, and more than a thousand years later than people began to write numbers in India.

People worshipped many different gods in ancient China. Some of these gods have been worshipped since the Shang Dynasty (about 2000 BC). Other Chinese gods became popular later on. Some of these gods are representations of the weather or natural forces like the sun or the moon or the rain.

It during T'ang times that China embraced two philosophies and one major religion at the same time. They were called the Three Teachings. They were an important part of daily life. The three were Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Each day, each person would do something to honor each of the three teachings each day.

Kids learn about the clothing of Ancient China. Materials used like silk and hemp to make robes and belts. Hairpins and other jewelry.

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