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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.
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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. -
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.
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Our lord and savoir was born, and the countdown stopped.
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Jesus died for our sins on the cross between the ages of 24 and 34. -
In 1520 the Dark Ages ended, opening up into the Middle Ages, where the kingdoms and civilizations that ruled during the Dark Ages slowly started to become more sophisticated and less barbaric.
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Finally, seven hundred years after Jesus, the Vikings developed and set out to find lands to call their own, and then, almost two hundred years later they settled in Iceland. -
After long years of raiding, and many stories to fill the history books, the Vikings eventually stop pillaging and melt away, while some people will say that they are completely gone, there was never a real end.
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The Crusades were a series of religious wars between the Christians, and Muslims, many religious sites were under the control of the Muslims after the start of the wars.
The nine main wars between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries were named numbers from one to nine. While there were the main nine, there were plenty of smaller wars, that stretched all the way to Europe and lasted much longer.
The word “Crusade” is actually related to the word “Cross” which is the symbol of Jesus Christ. -
From 1185 to 1868 the samurai and their pyramids ruled Asia.
They were some of the most respected, and the defenders of their lands, sometimes in occasion, women will become samurai, and they were the defense, while the rest would go out to war -
The Aztecs were fearsome warriors and expert builders along with farming and wealth, but in time they were taken down by the Spanish when a conquistador Hernán Cortés landed and they all thought he was a god, he then slowly destroyed them from inside out.
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Genghis Khan's rise started when his father was betrayed and killed so he moved back to his tribe to become the new Khan, but another person had already taken that role illegally and the tribe forced his family out.
He then built his own empire and then after dominating his old tribe, he then started taking over most of Asia and parts of Europe.
Eventually, long after he died, in 1294 his empire split into four separate territories and ruled by different khans, marking the end of his reign. -
The Ottoman Empire was a monarchy, led by a sultan it started in the middle east, and slowly grew, taking parts of Europe.
The Ottoman Empire was known for its power, how it could quickly take on any force, other than, of course, the Warrior Monk Pirates, it took 145 days to take their small tribe -
This got its name because of the strange welts that would appear on your arms, filled with blood, and black. Five days after realizing, they would die in agony. No one knew what was causing it and kept coming up with lots of random things, some said it was God punishing them, and blamed all the non-Christians, or others thought that it would only affect the poor. In the end after many failed tries, they solved it by putting herbs in a beak-like mask, countering the sickness with this "cure."
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Humanism could be taken as a good thing, or a very disrespectful thing, think this way of seeing the world is not quite anti-religious, but it focuses highly on man, our accomplishments, our amazing works, how we work and grow. Though this could be taken as against the church, especially because it popped up in the renaissance, where everything was usually very religious.
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The Renaissance was a crazy time, when art and culture really started blooming, when life changed, when we left the Middle Ages and dove headfirst into a new hope.
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“Without the printing press we wouldn’t have had the Scientific Revolution or the Renaissance. Why?” Well, Gutenberg was a genius, in creating his printer he made it possible for information to last longer, get farther, and be in greater quantities, without him we might still be stuck in stamping ink coated letters to pages or writing down our words instead, in short, it was just a giant step forward, that science will keep with us for a long time.
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In the beginning of the renaissance there were many wars, one that was brought to my attention was the war on roses, simply as a large civil war between two houses in England, the house of York and the house of Lanchester, spoiler Lanchester won, under the leader, Henry Tudor.
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