To understand what is happening in the world today from the political, economic, social and cultural spheres, we need to go back to historical events; that is, to interpret the past. Hence, History is one of the branches of Social Sciences that carries out a systematic study of the evolution of humanity from the civilizations that have preceded us.
It is difficult to define the origin of History; however, the Greek Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484-425 BC) is identified as the first historian. Other famous historians have been Sima Qian, considered the father of Chinese history; Al-Tabari, Francois Mignet, Gustave Glotz, Oswald Spengler, Edmund Morgan, Joan Wallach Scott, Elizabeth Eisenstein, Tito Livio, Andrey Korotayev, Eric Hobsbawm.
Starting from the spirit that characterizes the EL TIEMPO Collections, on Sunday August 7 will be the launch of Universal History, a collection for children between 7 and 10 years old, which combines humor and adventure to approach the past.
With narrative resources and fun color illustrations, young readers will be guided through each book. by the characters of Carmen and Marco, two enthusiastic childrenwith great curiosity and imagination.
They will be accompanied by their grandfather on a journey in which they will discover the facts, places and figures that marked the course of humanity since Prehistory, passing through the Egyptian pharaohs, the Greeks, the Roman Empire, the origin of Christianity, the Age Media, the Crusades, the Renaissance, the Latin American independences, the First and Second World War.
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The second part of the book has a didactic component that will allow parents and teachers to reinforce reading with a timeline, curious facts, short biographies, anachronisms, riddles and trivia, fostering in young readers the desire to know more about history and learn by understanding beyond memorizing data or dates.
Regarding the value of teaching this subject to children, the Colombian historian and writer Javier Ortiz Cassiani comments: “It is a way of establishing connections, of understanding that their lives are not isolated, they are built from the dynamics social and cultural of the space they inhabit. Universal History serves to place local and regional history in a more comprehensive context; and therefore have a broader vision of the world, of knowing and recognizing oneself from others”.
The first volume of the collection will go on sale on August 7. It is dedicated to Prehistory, a period that includes the appearance of the human being until the invention of writing around the year 3,000 BC. It will be a journey to the origins of man and his forms of survival from the Stone or Paleolithic Age to the Metal Age.
The second volume will be available on Sunday, August 21. It is oriented to Egypt, one of the most important ancient civilizations, with its powerful pharaohs Akhenaten and Tutankhamun or its queen Cleopatra. And its rich cultural heritage: hieroglyphs, pyramids, papyri and its very particular relationship with death through rites, beliefs and funerary practices.
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The first and second volumes will be sold at 6,900 pesos. As of August 28, every Sunday, a new volume will go on sale, for 21,900 pesos.
The Universal History collection is made up of 30 hardcover books with beautiful illustrations. The complete collection has a cost of $497,800 for subscribers of the Vivamos Club of EL TIEMPO, and $726,000 for non-subscribers..
Find a new book every Sunday at bookstores, chain stores, or with your news vendor.
Also by calling 4266000 in Bogotá or 018000110990 nationwide or through the website tienda.eltiempo.com/historiakids.
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