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Pyramids of Giza | National Geographic. All three of Giza's famed pyramids and their elaborate burial complexes were built during a frenetic period of construction, from roughly 2550 to 2490 B.C. The pyramids were built by Pharaohs Khufu (tallest), Khafre (background), and Menkaure (front)
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The first laws were codified in the Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. -
These laws were the Ten Commandments which were given to Moses on two stone tablets, and they set out the basic principles that would govern the Israelites lives.
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This time they conquered all of Mesopotamia and expanded the empire to include much of the Middle East, including Egypt, Babylon, Israel, and Cypress. They reached their peak under the rule of King Tiglath-Pileser I.
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Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece. If Homer did in fact compose the works, he is one of the greatest literary artists in the world, and, through these poems, he affected Western standards and ideas.
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The Great Wall of China is an ancient series of walls and fortifications, totaling more than 13,000 miles in length, located in northern China. Perhaps the most recognizable symbol of China and its long and vivid history, the Great Wall was originally conceived by Emperor Qin Shi Huang. as a means to prevent the incursions of the barbarian nomads.
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Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars there.
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The word "democracy" has its origin in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: "demos", which means complete citizen living within a particular city-state, and "kratos", which means power or government. ... A belief in shared power: based on the suspicion of concentrated power (whether by individuals, groups or governments).
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His conquests from him included Anatolia, Syria, Phenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Bactria, and he extended the borders of his own empire to Taxila, India (now Pakistan).
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One of the first civilizations to develop sophisticated compasses was China. This model of a compass dates from the Han Dynasty, between the 2nd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The spoon, magnetized with ore, served as this compass' needle.
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Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history. She is remembered for her supposed beauty and intellect and for her love affairs with Julius Caesar and Marco Antonio. She became queen of Egypt after the death of her father,
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The Neolithic is characterized by fixed human settlements and the invention of agriculture from circa 10,000 BC. Reconstruction of Pre-Pottery Neolithic B housing in Aşıklı Höyük, modern Turkey.
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Although most Christians celebrate December 25 as the birthday of Jesus Christ, few in the first two Christian centuries claimed any knowledge of the exact day or year in which he was born.
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the Roman dictator, was assassinated by a group of senators in the Ides of March (March 15) of 44 a. C. during a meeting of the Senate at the Theater of Pompey in Rome. Senators stabbed Caesar 23 times. The senators claimed to be acting out of fear that Caesar's unprecedented concentration of power during his dictatorship was undermining the Roman Republic, and they presented the act as an act of tyranny. At least 60 senators were part of the conspiracy.
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Paper as we know it today was first made in Lei-Yang, China by Ts'ai Lun, a Chinese court official. In all likelihood, Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid, and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun.
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395 A.D a barbarian leader, he deposed the young emperor Romulus Augustus and assumed the government of Italy. In 410 the troops of the Visigoth Alaric sacked Rome, causing a general commotion throughout the Empire.
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listen) "submission [to God]") is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that Muhammad is a messenger of God. It is the world's second-largest religion with 1.9 billion followers or 24.9% of the world's population, known as Muslims. Muslims make up a majority of the population in 49 countries.
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Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East ...
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Fatima bint Muhammad Al-Fihriya Al-Qurashiya (فاطمة بنت محمد الفهرية القرشية) founded the world's first university in 895 CE in Fez, which is now in Morocco.
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he forged the initial Mongol Empire in Central Asia, beginning with the unification of the Mongol Merkit, Tatar, and Mongol tribes. The Uyghur Buddhist Qocho Kingdom surrendered and joined the empire. Expansion then continued through the conquest of Qara Khitai and the Khwarazmian dynasty.
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The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. People gathered on the docks were met with a horrifying surprise: Most sailors aboard the ships were dead,
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The goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany, when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France, in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450 he had a perfected printing machine ready for commercial use: the Gutenberg press.
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Spain colonized America as they went in search of gold and silver. They did find a great deal of gold and silver when they conquered the Aztec and Inca empires. France colonized North America for the large amount of furs it found there. ... The English colonized North America for several different economic reasons.
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the process of creation of the Church of England after its break with the Pope in the 1530s. ... These recognized that the King was "the only supreme head of the Church of England called Anglicana Ecclesia
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Elizabeth I of England, often referred to as the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or the Good Queen Bess, was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until the day of her death.
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the rise of science during the early modern age, associated mainly with the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in which new ideas
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Shakespeare is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most famous in world literature.
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Invincible Armada is a term used in Spain to refer to the Great Armada of 1588, projected by the Spanish monarch Felipe II to dethrone Isabel I and invade England. The attack took place in the context of the Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604.
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The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America, founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared their independence in 1776 and formed the United States.
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Paper money in the United States dates back to 1690 and represented letters of credit or promissory notes. New coins were introduced to the US in 1861 to help finance the Civil War.
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The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state.
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The Industrial Revolution or First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain
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The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that took place in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. The Americans of the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), they achieved independence from the Crown. British and established the United States. States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy
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The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other nations of Europe that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime.
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The Haitian Revolution was the first revolutionary movement in Latin America and culminated in the abolition of slavery in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the proclamation of the First Empire of Haiti.
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Officially, the trains were invented when Englishmen Richard Trevithick and Andrew Vivian received a patent for the world's first steam locomotive in 1802. The little unnamed machine was put into service on the Penydarren Ironworks tram in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, on February 21, 1804.
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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'état, he crowned himself emperor in 1804. Shrewd, ambitious and a skilled military strategist, Napoleon successfully waged war against various coalitions of European nations and expanded his empire.
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Bolívar liberated or helped liberate four territories: New Granada (1819), Venezuela (1821), Quito (1822), and Peru (1824). He established one—Bolivia—in the region formerly known as Upper Peru (1825).
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During this period the changes suffered a strong acceleration. The industrialization process changed its nature and economic growth varied from model to model.
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The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States and states that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime for which the party has been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States
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that a new invention called the telephone emerged. It is not easy to determine who was the inventor. Both Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray filed separate telephone patent applications with the patent office in Washington on February 14, 1876.
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el inventor alemán Karl Benz patentó su Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Los automóviles se han extendido ampliamente a principios del siglo XX. Uno de los primeros automóviles accesibles a las masas fue el Modelo T de 1908, un automóvil estadounidense fabricado por Ford Motor
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The concept of the motion picture was first introduced to a mass audience through Thomas Edison's kinetoscope in 1891. However, it wasn't until the Lumière brothers released the Cinématographe in 1895 that motion pictures were projected for audience viewing.
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As the Colombian congress ignored requests for commercial franchises for the isthmus, which frustrated Panamanian aspirations, a separatist movement emerged to turn Panama into a Hanseatic country under the protection of the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. The Wright brothers had invented the first successful airplane.
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it included a sequence of armed struggles that lasted from approximately 1910 to 1920 and transformed Mexican culture and government. The outbreak of the revolution in 1910 was the result of the increasing unpopularity of the 31-year-old regime of Porfirio Díaz and the failure of the regime to find a controlled solution to the issue of presidential succession. This resulted in a power struggle between competing elites that provided the opportunity for agrarian insurrection.
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It was a warlike confrontation centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany accepted the terms of the armistice.
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The result of the Russian Revolution was the establishment of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state.
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This monument commemorates the birth, growth, conservation, and development of the American nation. Mount Rushmore National Monument is 5.17 km² in size.
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19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920) ... Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.
