One of the oldest known toy in the world is the yo-yo. Historians believe that it originated in China , but they have found stone yo-yos more than three thousand years old in greece. In the 1700s, the yo-yo was new to Western Europe ,and the novel toy from China provided entertainment for the French royal court.In the 1800s, the toy became popular with children in Victorian England.In the Philippines, the yo-yo was a national pastime, and the people became experts at making and using the toy.In the 1920s, Pedro Flores brought the first Filipino yo-yo to the United States and he started a yo-yo company in California.Pedro performed a number of tricks with his yo-yo.