The first people to practise the profession of money-lending in England regularly were the Jews, and the business has remained largely in their hands, though they are in the habit of trading under assumed names.
The first people to move back into the region were nomadic hunter-gatherers.
The elation of being the first people ever to see this was simply gob smacking.
Then he called his wisest men together and asked them, "Is it really true that the first people in the world were Egyptians?"
These children are learning it just as the first people who lived on the earth learned it in the beginning.