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This is important because this is the very first Chinese dictionary.
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Constantine introduced a policy of official toleration by the Edict of Milan.
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The Delian League was formed to guard againest possible future Persian attacks.
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Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
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The Aryans created a written language called the Sanskrit, and the knowledge of it belonged mostly to priests, who used the language to record sacred texts.
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This is important because they took Jerusalem, and set up four feudal states in Palestine and Syria: Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli, and Jerusalem.
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This is important because he was determined to rule both Italy and Germany, so he spent many years fighting win control, and he made his son marry the king of Sicily's daughter which secured him southern Italy.
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The reason why the attempted to bribe was because they were longtime trade rival.
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This is important because the Magna Carta was a written guarentee of their traditional rights and privileges.
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The first written treaty ended the costly struggle between the Hittites and the Egyptians. I chose this because often in history, we form more treaties with other coutries in order to make peace.
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THis is important because their leader, Tamerlane, was an ambitious general who was determined to conquer the world.
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Christopher Columbus argued with Queen Isabella to get her to sponser his trip, which was successful. They headed out to Asia because he believe that by sailing westward, a ship could reach Asia within two months.
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The treaty drew a Line of Demarcation that ran north and south about 1,100 miles west of the Azores Islands in the Atlantic.
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This is important becasue the painting is still there today, and it is beautoful. It attracts lots of tourists to go look and see what he had painted.
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This is important because this is evolve and change history over time. It will become what it is today.
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The Shang Dynasty began when powerful kings established control over northern China. It was the first in China, and lasted till 1122 B.C..
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This is important today because it helps us learn more about the planets in our solar system as well as beyond this galaxy.
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The Test Act required any person holding public office to belong to the Angelican Church. It also excluded Catholics and Protestant dissenters from the army, the navy, and universities.
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Jean Champollian had deciphered the Rosetta Stone, and managed to find the meaning of the Egyptian hieroglphics, which was lost until he found them. I chose this because without them, we still wouldn't be able to analyze them.
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The telegraph sends messages through electrical impulses. What used to took days to recieve, took only minutes and seconds to get messages. This is a major influence on the creation of the telephone.
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He canceled because he feared it would lead to demonstrations and disorder. This is caused warkers to pour into the streets, and to restore order, Louis Philippe dismissed his chief minister. Demonstrations continued over the next few days which resulted made troops open fire and killing some demonstrators.
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This caused Paris workers to immediantly revolt.
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This caused people to storm him with protest.
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This is important because Abraham Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation which was a speech that abolished slavery in the U.S.
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This meant that a railroad now spanned the United States from coast to coast.
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The Education Act stated that local school boards had to require attendence. What is important about this act is that some children ignored it and kept skipping school to work in factories and mines just to afford food to eat for the entire family. This is called child labor, and we, Earth, need to acknowledge that it is still happening in todays world.
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This is a major influence on the world today because everyone has a cell phone and some people are scared without one.
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He discovered energy waves that could penetrate solid matter, and called them X-rays. This is a major influence on the field of medicine today because we use in order to know what is wrong with the victim. For example, if we cant find a broken bone in the body, we use x-rays to see where the damaged bone is so we can help and fix their problem.
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A crowd full of workers had peacefully paraded towards the czar's palace in St. Petersburg, carrying a petition asking him for better working conditions, greater personal liberties, and an elected national legislature. Nicholas saw the parade as a threat to his power and ordered the soldiers to open fire to the crowd. About 1000 workers were killed, and that day became known as Bloody SUnday
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This is important because the region aquired its name, Normandy, from the French word "Norman," meaning "men from the north."
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Christianity started to spread across the Greco-Roman world, and started off as one of the many religions practiced till it became the main religion. This is important because Christianity is still being used as a religion today.
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Phoenicians created the alphabet which contained 22 symbols, and then the Greeks adopted it and added symbols for vowel sounds. This is iumportant because this is the first of the alphabet that we use today and everyday.
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The Romans had overthrown the Etruscan king and established a Republic. This is important because it is a key figure into the shaping of Romes government.
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This is important because this will evolve in the the African civilizatiion we have today.
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The Egyptians started to develop writing skills because they needed to write accurate records. I chose this because without them, we would not know how to write.
