If it is Moses or Solomon, you are probably a Semite. If it is Shufu or Rameses, you are probably a Hamite. The Aryans came from higher up on the map than the other two families, we think. They were the first people to tame wild horses and to use them for riding and drawing carts. They also had tamed cows which they used for milk, and sheep for their wool. 5 Real History Begins or ’Way ’Way Back to the Time of the Gipsies You can remember the big things that have happened in your own lifetime. And you have of course heard your father tell about things that happened in his own life--how he fought the Germans in the Great War, perhaps. And if your grandfather is still living, he can tell you still other stories of things that took place when he was a boy before even your father was born. Perhaps your great, great, grandfather may have been living when Washington was President, and _his_ great, great, great, great, grandfather may have been living when there were only wild Indians in this country. Although these ancestors, as they are called, are dead long since, the story of what did happen in all their lifetimes ’way, ’way back has been written down in books and this story is history--“his story” one boy named it. Christ was living in the Year 1--no, not the first year of the world, of course. Do you know how many years ago that was? You can tell if you know what year this is now. If Christ were living to-day, how old would He be? Nineteen hundred and more years may seem a long time. But perhaps you have seen or heard of a man or a woman who was a hundred years old. Have you? Well, in nineteen hundred years only nineteen men each a hundred years old might have lived one after the other--nineteen men one after the other since the time of Christ--and that doesn’t seem so long after all! Everything that happened _before_ Christ was born is called B.C., which you can guess are the initials of Before Christ, so B.C. stands for Before Christ. So much is easy. Everything that has happened in the world _since_ the time of Christ is called A.D. This is not so easy for though A. might stand for After, we know D. is not the initial of Christ. As a matter of fact, A. D. are the initials of two Latin words, “Anno Domini.” Anno means “in the year,” Domini “of the Lord”; so that Anno Domini is “in the year, of the Lord,” which in ordinary, every-day language means of course “since the time of Christ.” The things I have told you that I have had to guess at we call Before-History, or _Pre-History_--which means the same thing. But the things that have happened in the lifetime of people, who have written them down--the stories I don’t have to guess at--we call _History_.