| A toy is an object meant to be played
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| | civilization (3000-1500 BCE) include
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| with. Toys are usually associated with
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| | small carts, whistles shaped like birds,
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| children and pets, but it is not unusual
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| | and toy monkeys which could slide down a
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| for adult humans and some
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| | string.
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| non-domesticated animals to play with
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| | The earliest toys were made from
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| toys. Many items are manufactured to
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| | materials found in nature, such as rocks,
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| serve as toys, but items produced for
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| | sticks, and clay. Dolls are some of the
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| other purposes can also be used as toys.
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| | oldest types of toy[citation needed].
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| A child may pick up a household item and
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| | Thousands of years ago, Egyptian children
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| 'fly' it around pretending that it is an
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| | played with dolls with wigs and movable
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| airplane, or an animal might play with a
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| | limbs which were made from stone,
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| pinecone by batting at it, chasing it,
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| | pottery, and wood. In Ancient Greece and
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| and throwing it up in the air. Some toys
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| | Ancient Rome, children played with dolls
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| are intended primarily as Collector's
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| | made of wax or terra cotta, sticks, bows
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| items and are not to be played with.
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| | and arrows, and yo-yos. When Greek
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| The origin of toys is prehistoric; dolls
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| | children came of age it was customary for
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| of infants, animals, or soldiers, and
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| | them to sacrifice the toys of their
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| miniature representations of the tools of
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| | childhood to the gods.
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| adults are readily found at
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| | Hoops have long been a popular toy across
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| archaeological sites. The origin of the
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| | a variety of cultures.As technology
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| word is unknown, but it is believed to
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| | changed and civilization progressed to
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| have been first used in the 14th century.
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| | what it is today, toys also changed.
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| Toys and play in general are an important
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| | Whereas ancient toys were made from
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| part of the process of learning about the
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| | materials found in nature like stone,
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| world and growing up. The young use toys
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| | wood, and grass modern toys are often
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| and play to discover their identity, help
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| | made from plastic, cloth, and synthentic
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| their bodies grow strong, learn cause and
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| | materials. Ancient toys were often made
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| effect, explore relationships, and
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| | by the parents and family of the children
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| practice skills they will need as adults.
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| | who used them, or by the children
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| Adults use toys and play to form and
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| | themselves, nowadays modern toys are
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| strengthen social bonds, teach the young,
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| | often mass-produced and sold in stores.
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| remember and reinforce lessons from their
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| | One example of this change in the nature
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| own youth, exercise their minds and
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| | of toys is embodied by the changes that
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| bodies, practice skills they may not use
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| | have taken place in one of the oldest and
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| every day, and decorate their living
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| | most universal of human toys; dolls. The
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| spaces. Toys are more than simple
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| | earliest dolls were simple wooden
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| amusement, and they and the way they are
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| | carvings and bundles of grass; Egyptian
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| used profoundly influence most aspects of
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| | dolls were sometimes jointed so that
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| life.
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| | their limbs could move realistically;
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| Most young mammals play, and will play
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| | dolls that could say "mama" were around
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| with whatever they can find, turning such
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| | in the early 1800s; and today there are
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| things as pinecones or rocks into toys.
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| | dolls that can recognize and identify
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| It simply makes sense then that toys have
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| | objects, the voice of their owner, and
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| a history as old as human civilization
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| | choose among hundreds of pre-programed
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| itself. Toys and games have been
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| | phrases with which to respond. The
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| unearthed from the sites of ancient
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| | materials that toys are made from have
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| civilizations. They have been written
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| | changed, what toys can do has changed,
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| about in some of our oldest literature.
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| | but the fact that children play with toys
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| Toys excavated from the Indus valley
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| | has not changed.
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