TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.
On a planetary scale, all soil is dirt, because it's all been displaced so many times from glaciers and mountains and oceans and taking part in the biosphere, you can't tell where each particle was originally weathered from or which plant first captured it from the air. No one can trace sod to a fault line.
It's hard to have a rich history when evwn sharks are older. I bet you can't even tell if a soil is from regolith younger or older than Pangaea!
Wait what? It dates back a thousand years? So what did people call the planet they lived on in 200 AD? Or 500 BC? Surely they had a word for it before then. Or did they feel they lived ON the universe?