{"id":3039,"date":"2018-08-14T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:36:55","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember &#8211; you can change the difficulty of the text to suit your level.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3026 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-300x153.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-600x307.png 600w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-768x393.png 768w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38-1024x524.png 1024w, https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-13-at-23.34.38.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It should be easy! If you understand less than 90% of the words, it&#8217;s too difficult for you.<\/p>\n<h3>Ancient History<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-ancient-egypt\/id\/25968\/\">Ancient Egypt &#8211; Part One<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-ancient-egypt-part-II\/id\/26140\/\">Ancient Egypt &#8211; Part Two<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-ancient-rome-kingdom-republic\/id\/25465\/\">Ancient Rome &#8211; Part One<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-ancient-rome-empire\/id\/25541\/\">Ancient Rome &#8211; Part Two<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-vikings\/id\/25959\/\">The Vikings: Raiders by Sea<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/BHP-U7-7-uruk\/id\/3842\/\">Uruk: The World&#8217;s First Big City<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Festivals and Holidays<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-chinese-new-year\/id\/25128\/\">Chinese New Year<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-chinese-new-year-traditions\/id\/25184\/\">Chinese New Year Traditions and Symbols<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-christmas\/id\/24418\/\">Christmas<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-easter-traditions\/id\/29242\/\">Easter and its Traditions<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-hanukkah\/id\/24457\/\">Hanukkah<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-international-womens-day\/id\/27839\/\">International Women\u2019s Day<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-new-years-eve\/id\/24423\/\">New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-passover\/id\/29045\/\">Passover<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-saint-patricks-day\/id\/25637\/\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-saint-patricks-day-traditions\/id\/25667\/\">St. Patrick\u2019s Day Traditions<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-valentines-day\/id\/25569\/\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Recent History<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-famous-firsts-women\/id\/25619\/\">Famous Firsts in Women&#8217;s History<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/BHP-WH-why-tshirts-so-cheap-94\/id\/7582\/\">The Industrial Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-russian-revolution\/id\/26706\/\">The Russian Revolution<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Story of&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-soviet-union\/id\/28030\/\">The Soviet Union<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/BHP-U3-1-HistorySilver\/id\/3557\/\">Silver<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/smi-chocolate-history\/id\/19818\/\">Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/gl-history-new-orleans-jazz\/id\/27767\/\">New Orleans \/ Jazz<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-nasa-history-of-rockets\/id\/23461\/\">Rockets<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/govt-history-white-house\/id\/24749\/\">The White House<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-invention-internet\/id\/25392\/\">The Invention of the Internet<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsela.com\/articles\/lib-history-samurai-bushido\/id\/25195\/\">The Samurai and Bushido<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of these texts are from Newsela. Remember &#8211; you can change the difficulty of the text to suit your level. It should be easy! If you understand less than 90% of the words, it&#8217;s too difficult for you. Ancient History Ancient Egypt &#8211; Part One Ancient Egypt &#8211; Part Two Ancient Rome &#8211; Part &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishshouldbefun.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}