Attis and Cybele – West Asian mythology
Cybele and Attis standing together, while two much smaller human worshippers pray to them. From the Hellenistic kingdoms, in what is now Turkey, in the 100s BC Who was Cybele? [...]
Cybele and Attis standing together, while two much smaller human worshippers pray to them. From the Hellenistic kingdoms, in what is now Turkey, in the 100s BC Who was Cybele? [...]
Green corn ceremony: Corn, beans, and squash growing together When people started farming... Like other people around the world, when people in North America started to get more of their food [...]
The Atlantic ocean Long ago, the earth was just a big island, floating in a bigger ocean. The earth was hanging from four cords coming down from the sky, which was made of [...]
Cherokee environment: A waterfall in what is now the south-eastern United States Where the Cherokee lived Where people of the Cherokee nation lived, in what is now North and South Carolina and [...]
A turtle in the desert During the Triassic period (about 248 to 199 million years ago), most of Earth's land continued to stick together in one big supercontinent, Pangaea. Because [...]
Crocodiles About 290 million years ago, the Carboniferous period ended and the Permian period began. Almost all of the land on Earth grouped together in one big supercontinent we call [...]
A dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic period How the Jurassic period began When the Jurassic period began, about 199 million years ago, a lot of animals had just become extinct [...]
Dragonfly When was the Carboniferous period? With the end of the Devonian period about 359 million years ago, the Carboniferous period got started. More about the Devonian Quick summary of [...]
Pine trees - A Spruce tree is a type of gymnosperm and conifer Too dry for ferns and moss Near the end of the Carboniferous period, about 300 million years [...]
Ginkgo trees The first trees Ginkgo trees were the first kind of tree. These first trees on earth appeared during the Permian period, about 270 million years ago. This was during [...]