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Ancient China was a strange and amazing time span where Asia really started to form. Before modern times we had giant kingdoms run by one or many emperors, kings, queens, courts, and others all subconsously working towards creating this world that we know and love.
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This is one of the most memorable eras that the humans have braved through, leaving cities and artifacts and bones and riches behind for modern archeologists to uncover.
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The Trojan war was one of the biggest, or most famous wars ever to exist in the ancient world.
This war was mostly just one giant battle, because a ding-dong of a man thought stealing a powerful king's wife was a good idea.
In the Trojan war the great hero Achilles died because his mother forgot to dip his foot in a magic stream, he died in a blind rage because his good friend was killed while trying to give hope to the failing troops. -
This was the year that hosted the very first Olympic games, in honor of their "god" Zeus.
The games were similar but different from the games we play now in modern Olympics. -
In 753 BC there were two brothers who fought and fought, then when the brother Romulus finally killed his brother Remus, he founded Rome, but it’s unsure if it was just the visitors who called it that, or that was the real name.
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The great wall of China was built of thousands of years by lots of emperors, though it first became to be and the construction started in seventh century before Christ! Even though China didn't even really have a leader that ruled all of China, it was still constructed in the time before time. -
Hercules was theson of Zeus and a mortal woman.
Since he was half "god" and half human he was given the strenth of a "god" but still looked apon at human.
Zeus's wife, Hera was jelous of the young child, in her anger she drove him mad, causing him to kill his own children.
At this, he was forced to to ten Labors, to redeem himself. -
The education in Rome was much like the stuff now, yet one room, and girls would not move onto middle school, or high school, along with peasant boys who would work for the family instead, most people, like the girls, peasant boys, and some nobles, drop out before what was ancient high school, but those who moved on usually went to be politicians or lawyers.
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The Romans were great builders like I said earlier, they invented the Aqueduct, and built clever little roads shaped specially so water won’t pool, the Romans have inspired people hundreds upon hundreds of years later like the builders in Los Angeles, where they built Aqueducts to carry water to the giant city, and these are only a few of the things the Romans have inspired us. -
This is the time when the emperor Qin Shi Huang ruled China, he was the very first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, named after him.
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The first emperor was Shi Huangdi. Confucius was a group who thought humanity was good. The Legalists said the opposite. Shi Huangdi was with the Legalists, and he hated the idea that some disagreed with him. He ordered that all books that contain Confucius’ way of life to be burned, and then if people were to mention it or disagree with him, he would have them executed; hundreds of people were killed while he ruled. Also, Shi Huangdi was the one who made the terracotta army to protect himself.
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Cicero’s life was slightly more passive, as he was a writer and a speaker, he spent his life writing poems and books, which some of them could still be found now, hundreds of thousands of years later, and expanding the roman spirit, when Julius Caesar died, he made an enemy, Mark Antony, and attacked him using his speeches, he was then executed because of these acts, but before this he was an amazing republican whose work actually inspired the decoration of independence.
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Julius Caesar, who was the first child to be cut out of his mother’s stomach, later naming that action after him, he grew up to be an author, dictator, and politician, and lived his life as a commander of his army, he was ordered to go into battle and then that created enemies, which in the long run miraculously led to him being the dictator of Rome for life.
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In august of 55 BC. The Romans invaded Britan because the Britons had assisted the Gauls, who are the ancient versions of the French, in a battle, so once the Romans own, they went to invade Britan, not realizing that the Britons were vicious fighters and used the water surrounding them to their advantage.
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The Romans built roads, sturdy long planned roads, versus the dirt paths that the Britons made. These roads were spread-out all-over Britan, and for hundreds of years they didn’t make any more roads and just used the ones that the Romans had built. Back then, there was a style of building that came out. This lasted for a while but then was taken over by Gothic. This was called Romanesque; these buildings and houses have huge thick walls and sturdy reliable stone bricks.
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Rome was home to a fierce, and overall, amazing army full of fighters and leaders, the army of 4,000 to 6,000 men and there that was split into ten small groups with four hundred and something, and that went on for a while. The Romans had many ways of fighting, including special weapons, and technics, like the Pilum, which is a giant javelin, or the turtle formation, which is when they lock their shields together overhead, to create a roof to protect themselves from above.
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The Romans mostly just took the Greek gods and gave them different names, when it came to religion, though, for some reason, they were horrible to Christians, they took joy in torturing those who followed Jesus.