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2 And so, after scanning some old Greek and Roman writings about the deeds of ancient heathens like aJulius Caesar and bCleopatra and so forth, he decided to invent something brand-new,
3 Called history,
4 Which he tried out in a large number of plays,
5 Called 'cJulius Caesar,' 'dAntony and Cleopatra,' 'eHenry IV, Part II,' 'fRichard III,' and so forth.
6 The important thing about history was that you had to write about real characters and real events, based strictly on the facts you had,
a.Rom.12.13
b.Gyp.3.11-13
c.Rom.11.2
d.Dav.13.1-4
e.Psay.5Q.54
f.Psay.5Q.25
g.Ed.16.12
h.Psay.5Q.46
i.Gnt.15.10-11
 7 gAnd whatever facts you could make up,
8 hSo that the audience would believe they were really seeing it the way it was.
9 Shakespeare's invention of history was such a gigantic success that it convinced all the Giants to take all their many new inventions, such as art and science and politics and literature, out into the world and start making new history of their own,
10 Which they did,
11 And explains why there came to be a Modern Age,
12 Which means an age so full of tragic events that it seems like some big icomedy of errors.


THE BOOK OF EXPLORERS

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CHAPTER 1
1 When the apes called Europeans decided to have a jModern Age, they realized they would have to make a lot of khistory,
2 As quickly as possible,
3 Because the nation that made the most history in the shortest period of time would probably become the Chosen Nation of lEurope,
4 Chosen in the modern sense, that is,
5 Meaning richest and most powerful,
6 And therefore the most beloved by mGod,
7 Because they had learned during the nRenaissance,
8 From oMachiavelli and the pBorgia popes and other good examples,
j.Gnt.16.12
k.Gnt.16.6-7
l.Barb.4.18
m.Lies.2.26-28
n.Gnt.1.13
o.Gnt.13.1-8
p.Gnt.11.13-20
q.Psay.5Q.32
r.Jefs.7.15
 9 qThat God helps those who help themselves.
10 One of the best ways to make history is to discover something,
11 Like land that nobody else owns,
12 And help yourself to everything in it,
13 And own it forever,
14 And maybe even name it after yourself,
15 Which is how you get to be not only a Chosen Nation,
16 rBut an Empire.
17 And so it happened that the Modern Age began with a great race,
18 By all the leading nations of Europe,