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Contents
Introduction 5
Egypt f actfile 7
Awesome Egyptian events 8
Phascinating Pharaohs 12
The power of the pyramids 25
The pyramids 38
The magic of the mum.mies 48
The curse of the mummy's tomb 66
Gruesome grave robbers 75
The remarkable river 88
A gallery of gods 94
Awesomely troublesome Egyptians 99
Live like an Egyptian 111
Epilogue 128
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Horrible Hist<>rics:
Thi: Su'VllXt Slone Agt•
1'l1e Awesome Egyptiam
Th,• Groot')' Crcd·s
Tire Rattcn Romans
'111e C11t-tl1rna1 Cdts
Tiu Smiul1ing Sa.\'011.S
The Vicious Viki,,gs
Tiu.• Sumnin' N<1rmt1ns
Tiu Afo1sl)11WitM/1 AJ!~.r
111e Angry Aztecs -
Tiu Incredible Incas
11rt Terrible Tudors
Eun ,i\1ore Terril>le 'J11dors
Tl/.t.' Sli11ff Stuarts
Tile Gorgeous Georf!iam
111e Vile Vic toritms
T/J(. Frightful Firu W(Jr/d H't"tr
Tiu Wocfid Second World H't1r
The Blitzt!tl Brits
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Bloody Scotland
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Dark K11igl1ts and Dingy Ca.sties
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Till· Grorrvy Grah and The Rotten Romtl11.{
Thtt Vicious f'ihngs 1md The :HaH~)' /\1iddlt• Ages
Tlu An~r:>' .1:zt1•cs and tlu lnaedihk /11cus
nie Terrible 1i1dors 1md The Slim)1 Sruarts
Tiu Gorgeous Georgi1ms a.rid The Vii,· Victorians
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Introduction
Maths lessons are full of problems ... but English
lessons are quite another story. Music lessons can
break all records ... but Geography lessons have
their ups and downs. Chemistry lessons can be a
gas ... but Biology lessons are full of life.
P.E. lessons are one long game ... but History!
History is horrible! Horrible dates to remember,
horrible kings fighting horrible battles against hor
rible people. Sometimes it all gets horribly boring!
Sometimes history can be horribly unfair!
11\E ECi~Pi1AttS WROTf. IN
Hl'f.lOGl'IPH\CS ... YOU WV~
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A P>rr lAlLEl THAM
A LOWER-O-C..LYt>t\IC
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Sometimes it can be horribly confusing!
A-\OW MANY SIDES
HAS A PYRAMID?
YES WAYN~?
PAlNtA ISNtS ISDiElt , TAWNDO ASNt~ . l W\~H \
OUTSID£ .. WA~ OU>
ENOUGH'TO
llET\Rt ~
But this book is about really horrible history. The
sort of thing that teachers never tell you! Teachers
don't always tell you the whole truth! Honestly!
Teachers think you're too young to learn about
gruesome things ... like the way Egyptians took the
brains out of their mummies! So they don't tell
you ... then you leave school, and you may never
ever learn this vital information.
And sometimes teachers don't tell you things
because they don't know the facts themselves!
(That's right! Teachers do not know everything ...
just some teachers think they do.)
So, this book will tell you the things teachers
daren't. And by the time you're finished you will be
able to teach your teacher ... you'll enjoy that!
In this book, you;ll find lots of other interesting
things:
. . . stories to make your blood run colder than a
crocodile's claw!
... things to do that will be more fWl than eating a
bag of chips under water!
. . . facts that arc funnier than a teacher's joke,
nastier than a tramp's sock or sadder than a three
legged sheep. I hope you'll find them all horrible funl
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The most awesome fact about the Egyptians was
that their civilisation lasted an awfully long time -
over 3000 years. They had been around so long that
their monuments were ancient even in Greek and
Roman times.
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Time line of important events
Egyptian time is usually measured in periods called
dynasties. A dynasty was the length of time that a
ruling family lasted. Each dynasty could have as
many as 14 kings in the family . . . or as few as one.
There were 30 Egyptian dynasties altogether fol
lowed by two Greek ones, before Egypt finally fell to
the Romans and then the Arabs. This is an awe
somely quick race through time . . .
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Awesame EjlJpfian Evtnts
Time: 3200 -2300 BC
Dynasty: 1 -6
Period: The Old
Kingdom
Events: Upper and
Lower Egypt
joined together
and Nile floods
controlled by
drain building.
Hieroglyphic
writing in
common use by
scribes, and
calendar
invented.
The first
pyramids built,
including The
Great Pyramid
of Cheops.
Time: 2300 -2050 BC
Dynasty: 7-11
Period: First Inter
mediate Period.
Events: Weak rule by
Pepyleadsto
revolution and
mob violence.
Starvation for
many peasants.
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