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A century seems like a long, long time. Maybe it's because few us have lived that long ourselves. A millennium (one thousand years) is even harder to imagine. This makes history seem like something so far in the past that it doesn't mean anything to us.

But we all know someone that's 75 years old.

If Grandma was alive when something happened, it couldn't have been too long ago.

So, let's think of history, not in centuries, but in Grandmas... periods of 75 years.

Imagine, in the same room, a 55 year-old teacher and two Grandmas.

Their combined lives span 55 + 75 + 75 = 205 years.

That takes us back to 1801.

George III is King of England, still crazy and STILL sulking over that whole American Independence thing.

Add three more Grandmas to the room and Shakespeare is still "__to be__ing."

Imagine a classroom with 26 students.

If each student represents one Grandma,

this class would represent history back to the days of __Jesus of Nazereth__.

Or, just 73 of your friends...

and you are back to 3,500 BCE, the very __beginning of civilization__!

The past, as it turns out, wasn't so long ago.

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