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    e) In the 5th century ВС ancient Greeks made some discoveries proving ….. the
man's origin from apes.
    f) Knowing …..that the Earth is globe-shaped, the Egyptians put forward the
idea that it rotates in space.

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    a) Both Greeks and Romans used silver for money.
    b) Bacteria discovered by the Indians became known to the Europeans in the 17th
century.
    c) Buddhism originated in India in the 6th century ВС.
    d) The lost continent of Atlantis is one of the world's mysteries. Some scientists
say, that Atlantis existed near the Bahamas islands.
    e) The youngest millionaire was a seven - year - old girl called Jackic Coogan.
She was a famous film star in a silent film with Charlie Chaplin.

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                            The Mystery Of Stonehenge

    In some parts of Britain one can see a number of strange sights — big stones
standing in a circle.
    These are the monuments left by the earliest men of the country. The best-known
stone-circle named Stonehenge dates from between 1900 and 1600 ВС. It is made of
many upright stones, standing in groups of twos, 8.5 meters high. They are joined on
the top by other stones, each weighing about 7 tons. No one can tell how these large
stones were moved, or from what places they were brought. Stonehenge is still a
mystery. Tourists from various corners of the world come to see this super sight of
Wiltshire, England.
    Archaeologists think that Stonehenge was just a place for religious ceremonies.
Now they think it was also a kind of calendar, which showed the movements of the
sun and the moon. Those were probably very important to the builders of Stonehenge
for religious reasons, and because they were fanners, too.
    If Stonehenge and many other smaller stone circles in Britain and France are
really calendars, we have to change our ideas about people long ago: they weren't
primitive.
    Big stones exist only in the British Isles. According to the official information,
there are no such constructions anywhere else. (By the way, a lot of achievements of
modem civilization first appeared in Britain. For example, Britain had the first par-
liament, many present constitutions have their origins in British 'Bill of Rights', the
industrial revolution also began in Britain. It is surprising that a small country, cut
from the other world, developed so quickly.)
    There is a hypothesis that some other civilization with a much higher level of
knowledge coded main principles of life in the henges, and the British and other
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