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A group called Hunter-gatherer settled for the First time in Mesopotamia more than 10,000 BC years ago
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The Babylon, hitties, kassites, assyrians, phoenicians, and the Chaldeans are all part of the fertitle cresent
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Egypt defeted kush and ruled it. in ancient Egypt the Agriculture Community developed. Menes mad upper Egypt and lower Egypt together and that was called the First Dynasty. The biggest religion today called Buddhism was made in India.
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The water and soil has protected the Nile river.
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In around 3100 BC, Upper Egypt rose to power by a leader named Menes
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In the old kingdom a person named Kufu ruled, he was know for all the arts that got bulit to him.
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The first empire named Sargon built a new capital. Sargons soilders defeded northern mesoptamia.
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The Indus River is where Indias civilization developed.
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The civilization on India has made a religion called Buddhism, which is now the biggest religion today.
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The group of people that lived along the Huang He, has developed and became more elaborated and they ended up forming the first Chinese civilization.
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One of the leader of Egypt took a bifpg part and named his kingdom Kush.
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In chapter 8 we learn about the geography of Greece. Greece has influenced trade and has grown their city-state. We also learn about the type of government in Athen. The type of government in Athens are different, we learn about Aristocrats and Oligarchy, they are both ruled by a few people. In section three we learn about the greek mythology there gods. There gods rule different things like god of thunder or god of wisdom and so on.
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A new king named Hammurabi became the citys best monarch. Hammurabi code was also part of the ruler laws. It was a set of 282 law that was made of daily life.
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In chapter 6 we leaned about China and the Zhou Dynasty, The Qin Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty. We also learned about what the different dynasties did. China also has trade routes the go along Rome and China its self and also includes other lands.
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In India the largest religion is Hinduism, they worship three Gods, the Siva, Vishnu, and Brahma
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When the invaders from Europe came and attack the Mycenaean, the Mycenaeans started to fall apart. It wasn't just them, other cities fell apart because of an earthquake. Then the Greece had a hard time, and that begins the Dark Ages.
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The ruler of some people, then became to know as the Zhou then in China they ruled over a kingdom. They joined up with tribes that are near them and attacked the Shang dynasty. The Zhou Dynasy lasted longer than the dynasty’s in China
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In this time ancient historians found out that Romulus was the king of Rome, in fact he was the first king. Romulus had a twin brother his name was Remus. Since Romulus was the first king of Rome, Rome got the name from Romulus. When Romulus and Remus were born they got sent down the river in a basket.
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The location and the type of Rome’s government made a big difference in the ancient world. Rome’s society created laws and made a good community in Rome. Later on in Rome, the republic was marked by crises and war expansion.
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The farmers started to produce rice in the center of the Chang Jiang Valley, this has helped them grow rice and wheat.
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People tried to be better than the aristocrats but it failed. Later on a guy named Draco came along and everyone thought he made strict rules.
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the Spartan woman had more freedom than other woman that are Greek. The Spartan woman had owned land while the men were out for war. The woman served as slaves or they got jobs.
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Families that were wealthy they would teach their boys how to jump, run and fight back. The training for the boys wasn't that harsh. The men in Athens wasn't forced to put their whole lives for the army, they would go to army at the age 18 and be in army for around 2 years. only some boys had to memorize very long passages like plays or poems
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A guy named Siddaharth Gautama, know as the Buddha now is the founder of Buddhism. Buddhist is the biggest religion today.
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People don’t really know for sure if Aesop actually was a person. In histor lots of people has Sydney legends about him. Aesop was a slave.
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A griot is a story teller that preserved west African history. They did this by telling griots the story, this action was called an oral history. Some people can mess the story up. Unfortunately west African developed a written language.
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In the begging they Mayans moved in into northern Guatemala and build farmlands that they grew avocados, squash, and corn. They moved into small villages. The Aztecs wad a key power, which was war, and to rise in power. They built amazing islands. The Incas had a ruler named Pachacuti and the empire was huge in this time. They also has a strong government.
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Resources, culture, geograph, and trade influenced the growth of West Africa. In Eastern Africa are long and great rifts. In Ghana the ruler built a empire that controlled the gold trade areas. Around the mid 1200 the empire fell. The later empires had three great kingdom and they where Songhai, Mali, and Great Zimbabwe.
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After the Battle of Marathon 10 years later Xerxes I (Darius’s son) attempted to take over Greece and this time they took the Persian Army to join the. While they were getting ready for war the Geeks had a powerful army and the biggest army. After they attempted to defeat the Greeks they failed.
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In Chapter 9 we learn about Greece and Persia and in this section we talk about how the Perisans built a big and great empire which lead them into bad stuff. We also learn about Greek Achievements and how they like art. We learn about Alexander the Great and how he helped spread Greek culture around Asia Egypt.
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By this time Rome has changed, and led to the empire to collapsed around Rome, and since the empire was falling, the eastern of Rome started to become rich, because they built a new society.
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In this time the Republic of Rome was growing very quickly, in a was that was geographically and economically. Rome has conquered almost all of Italy.
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In this time the Athenians created lots of cool plays of the ancient world. When they would be creating the plays they would had conflicts.
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In this time a guy came along and became the king Macedonia, his name was Philip II. While he was the king he decided for the first year to fight off any invaders who wanted to destroy his kingdom. After he killed the invaders he was ready to make invasions for himself. Philip II wanted to conquered Greece first.
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Most of India got unified by the Mauryan Empire. Also the great Empires in india, the Mauryas and the Guptas built.
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The king of China, Qin Ying Zheng was successful in unifying China, then he gave himself the name, the First Emperor (Shi Huangdi) then he made laws that were bad punishment and strict laws.
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Buddhism altars are placed in the Emperor palace, Buddhism defused across China, and became a culture. Some Buddhist followers would carve a Buddha in walls.
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Rome had different types of government, the second one was called the Senate, Senate was council of rich and powerful Romans that took care of the city’s leader. The people that became Senates they had to be in the office for life. The Senate held 300 members. Overtime the Senates became more powerful, and at one point the Senate came to influence Rome’s government.
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Wudi the Emperor took the throne, he wanted to make a stronger central goverment. To make that happen, He made the taxes higher, and took the lords lands.
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In this time Rome wasn’t a safe place, so the general and the politicians went to war to make Rome better, during the war there was some flood in the city, and that led to confusion.
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The this the times were the Romans took over Judea, and the Jew believed that a Messiah was come to save them, the Jew announced to Judea that someone would come to save them, they all waited.
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We learn about Rome. Since Rome was a republican they changed to an empire, and then Rome started to grow economically and politically. Rome practiced many religions and then Christianity came and that became Romes official religion.
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Lots of cultures developed and settled in Greece. The earliest people there are called Minoans and the Mycenaean. The Minoans built a society on Crete the island. The Mycenaean and the Mioans influenced the whole of Aegean and helped make the other countries later on in Greece
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In mesoamerica people called the Maya made a civilisation their. They adjust in Guatemala. They grew beans, avocado and corn. They used trees and other plants for their materials. They used wooden poles and vines to build their houses.
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This disorder happened when Han dynasty fell. China parted into different kingdoms. During this time war happened a lot. Nomadic people’s also settled in Northern part of China.
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Europe vegetation's and climate has gone to region to region. Southern Europe is sunny out and warm. In northwestern of Europe is colder and more wet their. In Scandinavia has more of the freezing weather.
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In Europe they have topography. In the Southern Europe they have lots of mountain ranges. Some of the peaks reach more than 15000 feet. The highest mountains have snowfields and glaciers.
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When Christianity was spreading through the northern Europe. There was a powerful group called the Franks. they conquered Gaul, now it's called France. The Franks created the strongest kingdoms in Europe.
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The clans in Japan weren’t all the same, some clans might be more powerful and larger than others. One clan gained lots of power and they lived in Yamato. The Yamato rulers had extended there power over much of Honshu. They called themselves the emperor of all Japan.
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When the Roman Empire fell groups moved to the former Roman lands, this became there own states. Powerful people called them self called themselves kings. This was the start of the Middle Ages.
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Around this time they have found out that they can heat a certain kind of rock to get a strong and hard metal, it was called Iron. It helped them with farmers to cut grass and grow more food easily.
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The Ainu were the early people of Japan, they created a culture. Their traditional religion was called the Shinto. The Japanese society we’re influenced and isolated from China and Korea. Around the 800 to the 1000 the Japanese experienced the golden age during the hein period. In this time the Japanese had the military society and they were ruled by shoguns.
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In this chapter we learned about how Muslim started and we learned about how Muhammad teached about Allah and how he spread Muslim. The climate of Arabia is hit and dry. The Islam Empires got parted into three, the Ottoma, Safavid, and the Mughal.
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Arabia is located in a region and its dry and hot air. The deserts in Arabia have very little water. The mountains and the hills can go to 800 feet high and stretch hundreds of miles.
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In this time their was a period of disunion in China and was reunified by the ruler of Tang, song, and sui dynasty. The tang and Song Dynasty were also a period of economics and had a cultural and technological accomplishments. In the Song Dynasty Confucianism was introduced and was starting to get influence. The Chinese were getting ruled by foreign people.
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The main teaching of the Muslims is the Qur’an which is the Holy book of the Islam’s. In the Bible the Muslim believe that there is only one God, and his name is Allah. The Muslim believe that Muhammad is a prophet of Allah.
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A guy named Abu Baker made many battles, one after the other. By when his death he made Arabia into a unified state. Around this time Muslim leaders focused more on their armies and their victories. The Arabian Empire ended up defeating the Persians and Byzantine Empire.
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The Song Dynasty took a major step. They have effected China for al long time. They made the system better so that people worked for the government. These people formed a large bureaucracy. They made it through this by a examination.
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They had beautiful clothes that were silk robes and gold accessories. The nobles liked to have detailed clothes. To top of their out fits they would have an elaborate fans, they had painted flowers in them and nature.
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Trade impacted Ghana greatly, through silent trading of gold and salt. Because of the increased trade Ghana was able to make money from taxes and expanded borders.
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When the Magyars, Vikings, and the Muslims began there raids, the Frankish kings failed to defend there own empire, they were to slow. There enemies were fast. The nobles had to defend there own land, because of this the nobles became more powerful. The nobles ruled their lands as a independent territories
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The Chinese exported many good items, which include rice, spices, jade, and tea. Silk was a very important thing to export yet it was very valuable. Another valuable product is porcelain which is a thin pretty type of pottery
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This time, the group of French Monks started a monastery in town of Cluny. They followed strict times of prayers and services. They only cared about religious matters. Since they had changes at Cluny they made the creation of religious orders, these are people who deticate their lives to follow common rules. They began influenal and other people wanted to build monasteries.
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Over time things changed and popes and Kong’s has most power. Pope urban got called by Christians from the whole of Europe to retake the Holy Land. Life in the Middle Ages was formed around churches, the church wanted people to go on pilgrimages.Thomas Aquinas debated that thoughts can be used to prove Christians beliefs. a group of nobles made the Magna Carta saying that the king had to follow the rules to. Most Christians had wondered if the clergy wanted money instead of God.
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In this time the Heian was the center of Japananese art and poems. All around Japan their life was different, Nobles that were very powerful had war for lands. Since this was, it made it harder for peasants to grow food.
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In this time Christians began to question church teachings. They felt as if the clergy only wanted money more than wanting to teach about God. People who have great ideas are called heretes. Church officials sent priest to find these people.
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In this time a pope named pope Gregory VII came to power in Rome. Pope Gregory disapproved of a bishop that was choosen by Emperor Henry IV. Henry asked to take away Gregory’s authority, Gregory was mad and excommunicated Henrey out of the church. After awhile Henry asked for forgiveness and stood in the snow. Later Gregory did accept Henry’s apology.
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When the Han dynasty fell and the Roman Empire, the Silk Road declined. Later on the Mongols took over China, they made the silk road safer to trade. In the group of traders a guy from Venice, his name was Marco Polo and his family, they traveled from Europe Too China, When they went they saw paper money. Marco Polo made the government offical. He stayed there for 20 years in Asia, when he was there a journalist recorded his journey.
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The French Knights arrived in Venice. They came ready to sail the Holy Land and begun a fourth crusades. They didn’t have enough money to pay for the trip, because of that they asked the Venetians to take over Zara, which is a trade city. After, they also conquered Constantinople and took off with many treasures.
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This time Gengis Khan organized the mongols a powerful army, they made them go through an conquest. They attacked people through out Asia and also cities and villages. He then went around th China, they fought their way to the south of China and attacked the whole town.
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A group of nobles made their king respect other people’s lives. They added King John say yes to a document they had written. This was called Magna Carta, it’s anoyher word for “good characters.”
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Around 1270 AD their was some growth of trade of some things that could be worth a lot in Italy, this led to the learning called the Renaissance. The Renaissance learned math and siences and found some things that we use today. Since the Renaissance found this they spread the new ideas throughout Europe. Since people wanted to change the Roman Catholic Church, this created conflict and this is how the religious War started. New churches started because of this.
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If the people didn’t rebel against the yuan dynasty, then Zhu Yuanzhang wouldn’t have rebelled aginst his own army, and the. The Mongols wouldn’t have had their victory.
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Most of the Renaissance scientist thought that math could help them know the world. they worked on math text and built the ideas of it, the symbols that they used are also used today, like square root, negative, and positive numbers. while they worked on that after awhile it lead them to learning about engineers and architects. Some other Renaissance wanted to know more about the sky, so they studied astronomy and started to learn about the stars, sun, and planets.
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Mansa was the most famous Mali leader. He was super rich, he caused inflation where ever he went. He took a pilgrimage to Mecca. He built schools and believed the value of education. He’s Empire fell.
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Learning about Astronomy helped the Muslims to learn more about the world. In this Time an explorer called Ibn Battutah when to India, Africa, China, and Spain. To help make it easier for tourists the geographers made maps that were accurate than the ones they made before, they also made ways to find distances.
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In this time the Aztects they were the most powerful state. THE most visited empire was the Tenochtitlan. The problem of making this island was the causeway got in the way.
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"knowlege" is a latin work for science. Science is about gaining knowledge about the world. When learning science they start with observations, which is when they use logic to what they are learning about. Theories are the explanation of science to explain the observed facts.
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In the beginning of the Scientific Revolution European found a new way of gaining knowledge, which lead to science (Latin way of saying “knowledge”) this changed the way people thought of the world. There were European explorers that showed European knowledge, influence, and wealth. There were exchanges between the new world and the old, they discovered mercantilism which was a economic system.
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In this time a ruler named Pachacuti be an to make the Inca territory bigger. This time the empire was huge, it starts at Ecuador to the middle of Chile. About 12 million people lived in the empire.
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Their was war between the Huguenots and the French Catholics, and this happened for decades. This ended in 1598. King Henry IV told the Edict of Nantes to give freedom for most of France, the Protestants would be able to worship anywhere but not Paris and a couple of other cities. After a while the religious war became worst in the Holy Roman Empire. The king of Bohemia told everyone in his kingdom to become Catholic.
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In this time Spain sets 130 ships to take over England, This was called the Spanish Armada. The English were ready, they had ships that were faster and guns that were better than Spains. The Spain people failed and had lost. The English won and protected England
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In this time their was a economic system called mercantilism. This was the mail economic policy in Europe. The government controllled this to get all the gold and silver, this was to increase power in there country. Europe also tried to import goods, and this was because they could keep a balance of trade.
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I was born this day
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The Athens has lots of different governments that they created. Now today we can use some of there government types for voting in different countries.
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Since Buddhism became popular through out China, It started to spread all over the world. Now Buddhism is the top religion in the world.
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Since the Greeks worshiped people they wanted to understand the human mind and understand life, and now since the Greeks created Philosophy we can use it today by doing the same thing as they did, also know as theripst
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Ever since Rome started Christianity. The biggest religion today is Christianity because of Rome.
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Since the Romans have created the different type of governments such as the dictators which means they have overall power. Today, we use dictators because of them.
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Since Muhammad started to teach about Allahs Messages and how there’s only one God, Allah. Muslim has become a big type of religion around the world.
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Since the early west Africans has oral history, most of the facts we know about west Africa comes from travelers and scholars from Muslim lands.
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since Francisco Pizarro defeated the Incas, if he didn’t defeat them, the Incas would have been free and they would still have 24 tons of metal.
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Since William was a very famous poet, now we read his poems and do skits for his poems to.
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Since the samurai made up the code rule called bushido. Bushido has influenced today, like their samurai discipline are admired today by the Japaanese.
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The manga Carta has effected our day today, because this was a very important document. This can effect our government today because the government also has to honor certain rights.
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Astronomers now these days still study Kepler theory, they call this planetary motion