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The Sumerians, Hittites, Kassitites, Akkadians, Assyrians, Phonesians, Chaldeans and Babylonians started settling in the Fertile Cresent.
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King Menes of Upper Egypt took over Lower Egypt and made it Egypt.
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The Pharaohs ruled over Upper and Lower Egypt.
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In Mesopotamia, farmers learned how to use canals and irrigation so that they can grow crops and get lots of food leading to a food surplus. Then, they could have division of labour, because It didn't require everybody to farm so people will have different jobs. Then because of the division of labour, they could learn architecture and start to build cities and big walls.
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The sumerians started making settlements in Mesopotamia, called city states, a city which is urban surrounded by countryside, rural.
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The empire of Sargon, called the Akkadians, started conquering the fertile Cresent and he made the first empire.
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The Akkadians, led by Sargon, took over and controlled the fertile cresent.
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In India, they created a written language, Sanskrit, the most important language of ancient India, almost all of their poems and hymns were written in Sanskrit.
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India's early civilizations, harrapans had cities.
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Sargon dies and the Akkadians starts to lose control and stat falling apart
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The Xia Dynasty Started, this Dynasty had stories of Co-operation and working together.
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Xia - 2200 BC
Shang - 1500 BC
Zhou - 1100-481 BC
Qin - 221-206 BC
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The empire of Sargon, a 100 years after he dies the Akkadians completely fall apart and other groups took over.
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King Mentuhotep II took Egypt out of it's chaos and defeated all his rivals.
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By this time, the Minoans, not considered Greek, settled on the island of Crete, and built their own advanced society.
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The Mycenaeans started all the way and stoped when democracy ended.
Mycenaeans 2000BC
City-States 1500BC
Oligarchy 800BC
Tyranny 546BC
Democracy 500BC -
Hammurabi took over the Fertile Crescent and part of Egypt and Asia Minor. Hammurabi was a Great War leader and had very organized armies.
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While the Hyksos ruled Egypt the Egyptians did not like them so Ahmose drove them out and became king of Egypt, Starting the New Kingdom.
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The caste system is a system where people are divided into castes, like groups where come castes are better than others and you are born into castes, making it very hard to chang castes.
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Hinduism, a popular religion in India, was brought to them by the Persians and the Central Asians.
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The Shang Dynasty started. Created Social Order where peasants are low.
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Queen Hatshepsut Came into power, and while she was in power she increased trade and made the country bigger.
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Ramses the Great fought the Hittites for a long time and eventually signed a peace treaty with them.
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The Mycenaeans, the first Greek people got invaded from Europe and were destroyed, the earthquakes also distorted many of their cities.
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The Zhou Dynasty started the longest lasting dynasty.
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At this time, Homer was born, he was a great writer of epic poetry.
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About this time, Romulus kills his brother and makes his own city. He crowns himself king and names the city after himself.
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753 BC - Rome’s early 7 kings
Romulus, 3 Romans, 3 Etruscans
509 - Nobles overthrew last Etruscan king and mad a Republic
458 - Cincinnnaticus as Dictator
494 - Plebians started own council
133 - Tiberius in office
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Cyrus gained rule at this time. Cyrus conquered many lands and when he conquered, he let them keep their own customs. Having less revolts because of this, he conquered many.
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585 to 529 Cyrus
530 to 522 Cambyses
521 to 486 Darius
486 to 465 Xerxes I
359 to 336 Phillip II
336 to 323 Alexander the Great
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Confucius was born. He created Confucianism, a belief where people should lead by example not say and people should always obey their parents, especially the father.
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Around this time, Peisistratus overthrew the oligarchy, starting Tyranny.
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Around this time, the Nobles overthrew the last Etruscan king, who was very harsh on the people and also killed many of his advisors. After this, the Nobles created a Republic for the people.
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Laozi was born, the founder of Daoism.
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Cleisthenises, a Tyrant created democracy, Rule by the people while he was in power, Athens soon became a democracy.
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BC 500 - Settling of the Mayans
Ad 200 - large cities by Mayans
250 - Mayan height
900 - Downfall of Mayans
1325 - Start of the Aztec Empire
1400 - Height of Aztecs
1400 - Start of the Incan Empire
1500 - Height of Incas
1519 - Downfall of Aztecs
1520 - Civil war in Incaland
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This battle, Greece was fighting Persia. The Greeks, out numbered, won the battle because they were smart at what thy did.
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Around this time, Cincinnatus became dictator of Rome. After he defeated his enemies, he immediately stepped down from power. Now the people of Rome call his the “perfect” dictator.
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Start of the Sparta and Athens fighting. The first war, they both agreed to a truce. The second war, Athens got weak by losing all their navy at Sicily then Sparta came and took over.
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The Indias liked astronomy a lot, so they excelled in it a lot, they discovered some of the planets in our solar system.
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Around this time, Aesop was born, he was a very famous writer of fables, in his fables, animals acted like human beings.
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Around this time, one of Athens greatest sculptors created the Athena Parathnos, a very large statue of their goddess patron of the city, Athena.
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Around this time Gaul attacks Rome and they demand a great amount of gold to let them go. So Rome gives them the money and they leave. Then other people start attacking for money but then Rome takes them all over.
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During this time, Phillip went to celebrate his daughters wedding and was murdered there. He was king of Macedonia.
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At this time the city of Thebes rebelled and thought Alex was not strong. So Alex went over and made them all slaves.
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At this time, Alex died after getting sick in the city of Babylon, right after he marched home from his humongous conquering.
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The Mauryan Empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya, his empire lasted 150years.
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Asoka came to rule in India in 270 BC, he was India's strongest ruler, he conquered almost all of India.
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The Qin Dynasty started. This Dynasty was mostly ruled by one ruler, the Shi Huangdi, meaning First Emperor, he used legalism.
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Hi Huangdi dies, the first emperor.
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The Han Dynasty started, led by Liu Bang, the first peasant emperor.
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By this time Buddists have spread the religion to China, diffusion.
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Around this time, Rome had created a strong government with balance, but because the senate controlled finances, it made them the most powerful of the three branches. At this time the senate has a large amount of influence towards the government.
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Before this time, Emperor Hadrian had banned many parts of their religion the at this time, he destroyed the city of Jerusalem and built a new Roman city there, banning Jews from that city.
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The seismograph was invented, a device that detects earthquakes.
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At this time Rome was running out of troops and they really needed them so the consul Gaius Marius encouraged young enemployed people to join. After this many people joined and they were loyal to him.
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50 BC - Julius Caesar conquers Gaul
48 BC - Caesar destroys Pompey’s forces
44 BC - Senators attacked Caesar by stabbing 23 times
44 BC - Marc Antony and Octavian rule
31 BC - Octavian destroys Marc Antony and becomes ruler
27 BC Caesar Augustus-Octavian, gave power to the senate
180 - Pax Romana ended
200 - Diocletian rule and divided empire
300 - Constantine took ruled and united empire temporarily
410 - west Rome destroyed by goths
527 - Justinian took rule
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Caesar got assasinated and was stabbed 23 times by senators and Octavian and Marc Antony took rule and started to look for those who killed Caesar.
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Around this time, Marc Antony divorced Ocavian’s sister, Octavia, and Octavian got mad at him and killed him with a fleet.
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He became emperor and divided the emperor.
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West Africa had many resources, upon those resources, salt and gold had great trading power, salt for preservative and gold, highly valued for the softness And for the easiness to mold, also for jewelry.
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220 - Start of the Period of Disunion
589 - end of Disunion and start of Sui Dynasty
618 - over throw of the Sui Dynasty and start of the Tang Dynasty
907 - end of Tang and start of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms
960 - Start of the Song Dynasty and end of dynasties and kingdoms
1279 - end of Song Dynasty and Kublai Khan took over and started the Yuan dynasty
1368 - China rebelled against Mongols and started the Ming
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A Griot is a story teller that preserved West African history. They did this by telling other Griots about the story. This action was called an oral history. There was a risk of details changing over time when sharing an oral history. All Tis happened because West Africans never developed a written language.
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Around this time, Constantine removed bans on the religion and became Christian, also making Rome’s official religeon on Christianity.
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At this time, the Mayans have just reached their height in civilization, and have many large city’s around the Yucatán Peninsula. The Mayans had observatories and traded many things including, cacao, jade, obsidian, and cotton, but sadly they did not have iron or steel.
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400 - Missionaries of Christ
480 - Franks in Gaul
500 - small kingdoms
500 - Start of Medival ages
700 - Charlemagne
800 - Charlemagne over Romans and Franks
800 - Nobles’ rule
1000 - Feudalism in Northern Europe
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He took the lead in the east and made it a better place and made it last much longer than the east, with the help of his wife.
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The Topography, or shape and elevation of a piece of land, of Europe was Mountainous by the Circumference of the Continent but has a huge plain in the middle of it.
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500 BC, the Africans discovered metal
300, they the Soninke began to band together and created Ghana
1000, Ghana was at its height the started falling
1200 they fell
1230, Sundiata made Mali out of collapsed Ghana and nearby areas.
1300, Mansa Musa, most famous and rich man ruled Mali
1400, Soninke broke free of Mali
1500, Mali fell
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Starting with the first emperor from Yamato - 500
Learning from neighboring countries - 550
Shotoku - 593
First written history - 700
The tale of Genji - 1000
Zen Buddhists - 1100
Shogun Minamoto - 1192
Noh - 1300
Shoguns loss of power - 1400
Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan - 1600
End of samurai period 1800 -
Muhammad was born in Mecca around this time. He was the person who created Islam.
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570 - Muhammad is born
613 - teachings
634 - Aku Bakr
Mehmed II - 1431
Abbas - 1588 -
During the period of Disunion, there was a ruler named Yang Jian, he was from the north and he conquered the south, unifying China. This started the Sui Dynasty. During the Sui Dynasty, they started the Grand Canal, a man made river built for trade.
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This person, Prince shotoku, brought Chinese ideas and advances to japan, he highly recommended it and he admired the Chinese society. He came into rule around this time, he he was a regent, a person who rule for someone who is unable to rule alone. He lost power when he died (621 AD).
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Around this time, Muhammad meditates in a cave and the Lord reveals Himself to him, he got many messages from God and he collected them all into the Qur’an, the scripture of the Muslims.
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Around this time, Muhammad has started teaching about his revelations, but at this time he had created the five pillars of Islam, what the Muslim are supposed to follow.
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The Tang Dynasty started because a Sui Dynasty official over threw the government, then creating the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese empire grew a lot. They had two great rulers, Taizong, for conquest and Xuanzon, known for culture and poetry. They also had the only woman emperor, empress Wu. When the Tang Dynasty ell the Empire was left in chaos, called the five dynasties and the ten kingdoms.
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The Arabs did not like Muhammad’s teachings of one God, so they kicked him out of Mecca and he went to Medina, where he also taught.
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Although Europe and Japan were very different, they were similar in some ways, as they both were Feudalistic societies, all about land. But the Japanese and the Europeans were also different in other ways but not as much as similar, like religion and arts. They both used peasants to work their land and loyal warriors to defend them.
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Around this time, Muhammad is dead and Aku Baker is elected as the new leader, or caliph, the highest rank for Muslims. Then he conduced a series of battles around Arabia and tried to unite it. Then at this time, he died
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Around this time, the area was in great stress as the Vikings and other invaders invade often and the people grew scared so the Nobles started to defeat their own lands instead the Kings, and therefore the King lost most of his power and the Nobles’ power grew. But amidst all this terror the Nobles still stayed loyal to the kings.
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Charlemagne was the strongest ruler the Franks of Gaul had, he did a lot of warfare and increased the empire a lot. He spent most of his rule doing warfare. Charlemagne was a Christian ruler, and built schools all around the area, including religious schools, among these buildings is some of the most shaping schools in Europe, shaping most of Europe with the scholars helping him. At this time, he lost power.
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Neo-Confucianism, or new Confucianism, was a spin-off of Confucianism, the major differences were that the New also emphasized on spiritual matters and good in the eyes of others.
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Around this time and the rest of the Middle Ages, the Church was central to most of Europe, most, almost all of the people there were Christians, so the Church had great influence over Europe and when people died they gave some of their land to the Church, so eventually the Church had so much land that it divided it into fiefs, making if a feudal landlord.
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1059 - First Excomms of an Eastern Bishop
Late 1000s - Turkish Muslims’ capturing Jerusalem
1096 - Launching of the First Crusade
1122 - Compromise between King and Pope and proving the power of the Pope
1140s - Muslims taking land back
1147 - Second Crusade
1189 - Third Crusade
1201 - Fourth Crusade
1200s - 2 new religious orders and Crusade against Herecy in France
1215 - Magna Carta
1291 - Muslims take back all of the Holy Land
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At this time, the first Crusades just started and the was 5000 men going to go and reclaim the Holy Land - Palestine. It succeeded and they retook the holy land from the Muslims, but not so long after, the Muslims retook it and the Christians were not able to retake it for reasonable amounts of time soon, after five or more Crusades.
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At this time the Chinese brought in a new form of buddishm, called Zen, Zen Buddhists focused on self-discipline, and meditation, they taught that faith nor good behavior brought you to wisdom.
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On 1073, a new pope came to power, Pope Gregory VII believed that the popes should choose the bishops but the king disagreed, and he said he should do it, so the pope excommunicated the king and the King went to beg him forgiveness and at this time the pope proved he had more power. At this time, they reached and agreement, three days after begging.
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Once there was two great clans in Japan, the minamoto and another clan. The minamoto won and took control of Japan. Minamoto took the title of shogun at this time and ruled like an emperor, he left the emperor as a figurehead
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Around this time, Ghana had collapsed due to three major factors, Attack by the Almoravids, in 1060, overgrazing and rebellion. The major cause of this was of the Almoravids.
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In the early 1200s Pope Innocent thought that heresy was to big of a threat to Christianity in France. So he formed a crusade against heretics in southern France. This lasted 20 years and many innocent people died from this even though they weren’t heretics.
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Around this time, Noble of England went up to a field in Runnymede and forced King John to sign the Magna Carta, to stop him from not following the law, because he thought that only the people have to follow the law and not the King, the Magna Carta also contained rights of the people, one called Haebeas Corpus, to not allow people to be thrown in jail without a reason. The Magna Carta made the set up of England much more fair and enjoyable.
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During the time of mongol times all spread out a man rose up and united all the tribes and started the Mongol Empire, during this time he conquered many people around him, when he died, Genghis Khan, he had conquered most of north China, after a while, his grandson took over, Kublai Khan, and conquered all of China, now starting the Yuan Dynasty. He kept a peaceful and happy town empire, even though he taxed a lot, all the money went to building public buildings and making the empire better.
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The Song reunited China after the five dynasties and ten kingdoms. They had many advances, the greatest achievements were:
Irrigation Tecniques
Fast ripening rice
Paper money
Celadon
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Before this time, the Silk Road had reopened, causing Italy’s Northern cities became humungous trading centers for various reasons like wool, banks, glass, weapons, and silk, At this time. Casing the start of the Renaissance.
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1200 - Mongol control over China and reopening of the Silk Road
1300 - Italian trade cities
1455 - Printing Press with Movable type
1513 - The Prince - Iron Fist vs. Loving
1517 - 95 theses
1534 - The English Church
1562 - Religeous Wars - Protestants vs. Catholics
1600 - William Shakespeare’s plays -
Mansa Musa was the most famous ruler of Mali, he also was super rich. He was a Muslim. He was so rich that he caused inflation wherever he went. He was also into education and he built mosques and schools. His son was total absolute weak sauce. His son also caused the downfall to nomads.
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By this time the Aztecs were pushed out of everywhere, until they came to an island in a lake, where the king claimed to see an eagle holding a snake in it’s beak, their supposed promised land, here they started their capital, Tenochtitlán, in lake Texcoco, they had many advancements here including a way to build on marshy land.
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1493 - Columbus accidentally found America while looking for Asia
1498 - da Gama went around Africa into Asia, the first
1500s - The Colombian Exchange
1522 - Magellan’s crew circumnavigated the world (Magellan himself died)
1543 - Copernicus revealed what he believed right before death
1600s - Galileo Galilei explores the sky with a telescope and proved new people right
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The Incan empire was very big around this time, once their empire was large enough they needed a way to get around and communicate, their official language was Quechua and they had no written language so they had sofistically knotted strings to record dates or words. At this time,the Incans had started creating a large network of roads to get around, they used this network to send massages around quickly by using runners.
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Around this time, Johann Gutenberg created the Printing press using a movable type, making printing in the Renaissance much easier and more mass product-able.
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Dias was the first to sail around the bottom of Africa, at the time, people thought that Africa went down forever and there was no bottom, but Dias sailed around it proving their theory wrong. He was trying to find a sea route to Asia.
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Columbus was the first to reach the Americas, even though he didn’t know it. He was trying to sail to asia but accidentally sailed into America, he died in America, thinking that he was in Indonesia.
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The Incans once started in a small town called Cuzco, now Peru, but one emperor wanted more, so he expanded, once he lost rule, the other leaders followed in his footsteps and kept walking The that direction, eventually they got a Huge empire and at this time they created a very strong and effective government.
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The Colombian Exchange was the exchange of goods from Europe, the Old World, and America, the New World, this changed history, because they found many things that they didn’t have in Europe, like Potatoes, Turkeys, and corn.
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around this time the Safavid empire has started with the conquering of Persia, led by Esma’il.
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At this time, Martin Luther, a Priest, hammered a list of 95 problems or ideas that the church should fix, but the church took it too far and excommunicated him for it, he was brought to the diet and many other things while the Protestants were forming, protesting against the Catholic Church, starting a new deviation of Christianity.
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Around this time, Babur has founded the Mughal Empire in North India, later a new emperor took rule and his name was Akbar, he conquered many lands and strenghened the government of the Mughal Government.
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Johannes Kepler was an astronomer, assistant to Brahe, he has found out that the orbits of the planets are actually elliptical, not circular, by now, they already know that the sun is in the center.
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Around this time, the blue mosque, a mosque built for one of the Ottoman sultans was built, it had six minarets (small towers where people are called to pray from) instead of the normal four.
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He was the first person to explore the sky with a telescope, he has proved many theories of other scientists, like sun centered, elliptical, accelerating planets. He also had a start on what gravity is, witch was found out later by Newton.
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1642 - English Civil War
1689 - English Bill of Rights approved
1690 - Two Treatises on Government by Locke
1748 - The Spirit of The Laws by Montesquieu
1762 - The Social Contract by Rousseau
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Around this time, John Locke published a book saying that the government had a contract with the people, he also stated that all people had natural rights, which included life, liberty and property.
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Voltaire was a French philiosopher that mocked government and religion. Throughout his writings, he states that humans can improve themselves, not only God, he also goes against censorship. Around this time, he was born
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At this time, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, a document that stated the United States seperate from the British and tells that the citizens have natural rights that the government must protect and also states that the citizens have the right to change their government.
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Around this time, the Greek created the Olympic Games, to honor the gods, this eventually became the Olympic Games we know today.
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This relates to the United States of America because the president had power to “veto” other official’s doings. Like the Roman Tribunes.
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Constantine, as emperor collected many letters from the apostles and messages on Christ and made the New Testament, the one we know today.
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The Aztecs started making foundations very early in their society, when they started making their capital, they created foundations because the land they were on was marshy and not firm so they needed support for their buildings, becoming foundations.
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The sumerians excelled at math and used a base of sixty and learned about triangles, later becoming trigonometry.
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When the Indians invented the Hindu Arabic Numerals (1234567890)
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They created the first written form of Chinese, later changed to make the Chinese today.
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Because of the long 26 mile run of the messenger from marathon the Athens, the massenger dies. This impacted us today because now, we call long runs, marathons.
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Around this 1200 and 1600, Muslim traders came into Malaysia and Indonesia to trade, this resulted as Indonesia getting the highest Muslim population in the world.
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The previous West African traditional music became the blues we know today. The West African music was normally played when something important happened.
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In China, they created porcelain after it was so famous, and after exports got big, Porcelain was so famous in the west that it was known as China because it came from China.
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The Phonesians started the first alphabet that looks like our English alphabet.
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The Egyptians did lots of art in their temples, tombs and daily life.
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The noh plays originally created in Japan in the 1300s have continued to grow and expand, the Noh plays are still being played in Japan today. What started out as mimicking ended up as a popular form of plays in Japan.
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Most of Northern Europe now has Christianity because back in the 400s the Pope sent out many missionaries there and converted many to Christianity.
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Even today in France, the French people still see Joan of Arc one of the Nation’s heroes. Joan of Arc rallied the French troops against England in the hundred year war, because of her the French managed to push out the English, but Joan was captured and killed in 1453.
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Back then in the late 1500s and early 1600s Shakespeare created great plays, in early English, some people consider him the greatest writer for being able to tell plays without an intro, only letting the audience find out by their dialogue or other ways. Shakespeare is still considered the greatest writer today by some people, some people still perform these plays today.
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At this time, Newton had published a book on his discoveryies, mainly Gravity and Motion, about how things drop “down” and how when two things collide they cancel out or bounce back, cause and effect mainly, these laws are still taught in schools today, and these are still useful many things you do in your life.
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He argued that the government should be separated into many branches, each keeping the others’ power in check, making sure none of the branches get too much power. This is affecting us today, as most governments today have many branches, each keeping the others’ power in check. Today it is known as Check and Balance.