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Period: 7000 BCE to 1 BCE
Ancient
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1300 BCE
Cinderella
1300 BC
circa
Charles Perrault
In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house -
564 BCE
Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables
between 620 and 564 BCE
Ancient Greek
aesop
“Aesop’s Fables” is a book of stories and the characters are mostly animals and sometimes plants. Even though the characters aren’t humans they have human virtues and flaws, act and talk like people. -
Period: 1 BCE to 1500 BCE
Medieval
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Period: 1500 to
Modern
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1550
Aladdin
italy
Antoine Galland
Aladdin is a truant child, living with his mother in poverty in a Chinese town. His father is dead a man claiming to be his uncle tricks him and leads him to a cave to retrieve a lamp, the man gives him a ring and traps aladdin inside the cave. He rubs the ring and a genie appears then his mother rubs the lamp and another genie comes. Aladdin gets the princess for his bride.