I need some information on the History of toys?

I’m doing a report on toys for boys and girls and need a bit of history on what children played with in the past. From the 1700s,1800s,1900′s ect..

Most young mammals have been observed to play with whatever they can find, turning such things as pinecones, rocks, and food into toys. It simply makes sense then that toys have a history as old as human civilization itself. Toys and games have been unearthed from the sites of ancient civilizations. They have been written about in some of our oldest literature. Toys excavated from the Indus valley civilization (3000-1500 BCE) include small carts, whistles shaped like birds, and toy monkeys which could slide down a string.

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