Illustrated World History 5000 Years (Volume 1 and 2) - Children's Color Illustration Edition

Author: Yu Tian
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Dear young friends, the phrase "five thousand years" may not be unfamiliar to you, but why do people say this, and how is the "five thousand years" calculated? In fact, the knowledge behind it is not complicated: the calendar system we use today is the world's standard. If we take the "Common Era" as the boundary, going back three thousand years (that is, 3,000 BC) and extending forward two thousand years (that is, 2,000 AD), adding these three thousand years and two thousand years together, doesn't it just make "five thousand years" in total? Of course, this is about how the phrase "five thousand years" is calculated. If we just talk about the year 2003, it's not okay to say two thousand and three; the standard way to say it is two thousand and three. Dear young friends, the phrase "five thousand years" may not be unfamiliar to you, but why do people say this, and how is the "five thousand years" calculated? In fact, the knowledge behind it is not complicated: the calendar system we use today is the world's standard. If we take the "Common Era" as the boundary, going back three thousand years (that is, 3,000 BC) and extending forward two thousand years (that is, 2,000 AD), adding these three thousand years and two thousand years together, doesn't it just make "five thousand years" in total? Of course, this is about how the phrase "five thousand years" is calculated.