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the life of alexander the greatBC: Alexander the Great is from Macedonia. He conquers most of the world with a common culture- Hellenistic Culture- (macedonian + Greek + Persia cultures put together.)
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BC: created the great wall of China.
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Muslim trade routes connected Asia with the Mediterranean world. As they traveled, traders spread Muslim culture to Europe via the Levant, Sicily, and Spain. In Asia, they penetrated as far as China and India and journeyed over the ancient Silk Road. Muslim traders also traveled across northern Africa as far as Timbuktu.
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BC: China was one of the oldest empires ,and it begins around 221 BC.
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webBc: is a traditional Chinese philosophical concept concerning the legitimacy of rulers.
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BC: also known as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent
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VideosAD: The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
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Mayan infoThe Maya lived in the area in Central America which now consists of Yucatan, Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico (the Chiapas and Tabasco provinces). This whole area lies south of the tropic of Cancer, and north of the equator, and is about 900 kilometers from north to south and 550 kilometers in the east-west direction.
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BC: It was the longest dynasty and created the Mandate of Heaven.
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BC: They offered free education; discoverd 7 planets and used algebra; medicine: set bones & plastic surgery, inoxulation, free hospitals.
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about himBC: investigated almost every feild of study know during his life time.
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When the Western Roman Emipre fell, Constantine got the eastern half and called it Constantinople.
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BC: The Olmec were the first major civilization in Mexico. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
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BCE: Monument 19, from La Venta, the earliest known representation of a feathered serpent in Mesoamerica.
Courtesy George & Audrey DeLange, used with permission. The religion of the Olmec people significantly influenced the social development and mythological world view ofMesoamerica. Scholars have seen echoes of Olmec supernaturals in the subsequent religions and mythologies of nearly all later pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures -
economic and social system of medieval Europe under which peasants' land tenure and production were regulated, and local justice and taxation were administered.
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monotheism infoBC: the belief in one God
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infowas empress of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Like her husband, she is a saint in the Orthodox Church, commemorated on November 14. Theodora is perhaps the most influential and powerful woman in the Roman Empire's history.
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the codesAD: all the Roman laws & laws education & news laws. created by Justinian.
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Lydians infoBC: first to use coin money
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In the centuries after the life of Muhammad, Muslim armies poured out into all surrounding Areas, bringing the lands from Persia to Spain under their control.
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CE: is the monotheistic religion articulated by the Qur'an, a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God
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sunni muslims"people of the tradition of Muhammad". Muslims should choose prophet.
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shia"followers of Ali". Prophet should be a blood descendator of Muhammad.
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AD:was a sort of universal genius, known first as a physician. To his works on medicine he afterward added religious tracts, poems, works on philosophy, on logic, as physics, on mathematics, and on astronomy. He was also a statesman and a soldier, and he is said to have died of debauchery.
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charlemagnewas King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814.
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first printing pressThe printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg in around 1440, based on existing screw presses
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CE: formally divided the State church of the Roman Empire into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
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One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he played in the Investiture Controversy, his dispute with Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV that affirmed the primacy of papal authority and the new canon law governing the election of the pope by the College of Cardinals. He was also at the forefront of developments in the relationship between the emperor and the papacy during the years before he became pope
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hittitesBc. they used iron weapons
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is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. I
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The Inca Empire, or Inka Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
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video of ottman empireThe Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in history; such that the Ottoman State, its politics, conflicts, and cultural heritage in a vast geography provide one of the longest continuous narratives.
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Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, world view or practice that focuses on human values and concerns, attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters.
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teaching of marco polowas a Venetian merchant traveler[2][3] from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China.
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he Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries.
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videowas a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, East Africa, and the Horn of Africa collectively referred to as the Voyages of Zheng He or Voyages of Cheng Ho from 1405 to 1433.
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was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.
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Some new tchnology during this time were: maps, sextant, hartman Astrolabe, compass, caravel.
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were people at the service of Spanish Empire, or at the service of Portuguese Empire. Soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who explored extensive Earth areas and trade routes and brought much of the world under the control of Portugal and Spain in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
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was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere.
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was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
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CE: was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which occurred after a siege by the Ottoman Empire, under the command of 21-year-old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, against the defending army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI. The siege lasted from Friday, 6 April 1453 until Tuesday, 29 May 1453 (according to the Julian Calendar), when the city was conquered by the Ottomans.
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was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.
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was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe
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info on life and his artwas an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
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Magellan's expedition of 1519–1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named "peaceful sea" by Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific.
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about himwas a German monk, priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation.[1] He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money
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videowas a 16th-century split within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants.
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"The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608
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was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism.
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pic.a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion,
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When he ruled.He was the third emperor of the Salian dynasty and one of the most powerful and important figures of the 11th century. His reign was marked by the Investiture Controversy with the Papacy and several civil wars with pretenders to his throne in Italy and Germany.
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was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."
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BC: the basic unit of government (city-state)
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james cookwas a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland.
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laws of Hammurabi's Code
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learn about the first alphabetBC: It' s the base for our alphabet.
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BCE: monotheistic - is the religion, philosophy, and way of life of the Jewish people.
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BC: First emperor of Roman Empire.
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rise of christianity in romeAD: is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings.
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videoBC: He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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buddhaBC: it started around 580 BC ans still around today. the founder is Siddharta Guatama. Buddha's teachings: reincarnation, four noble truths,and eightfold path.
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info about roman republic for kids!BC: the form of govnment that we kinda use today.
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BC: trained students to think for themself; he taught that education was the key to personal growth.
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BC: founded the Academy, a special in Athens for teaching philosophy; human beings have 2 parts: body & soul: Theory of forms.
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WebsiteBC to AD: was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople.
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A peasant is an agricultural worker who generally works land owned or rented by/from a noble
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A series of contractual relationships between the upper classes, designed to maintain control over land. As part of the feudal agreement, the lord promised to protect the vassal and provided the vassal with a plot of land. This land could be passed on to the vassal's heirs, giving the vassal tenure over the land. The vassal was also vested with the power to lease the land to others for profit, a practice known as subinfeudation. The entire agreement was called a fief, and a lord's collection of
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Videowas a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.
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The role the Church playedThe Medieval Church played a far greater role in Medieval England than the Church does today. In Medieval England, the Church dominated everybody's life. All Medieval people - be they village peasants or towns people - believed that God, Heaven and Hell all existed. From the very earliest of ages, the people were taught that the only way they could get to Heaven was if the Roman Catholic Church let them. Everybody would have been terrified of Hell and the people would have been told of the sheer
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Hieroglyphic chartBC: they are signs,pictures, and symbols that represent things.
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BC: Menes: the first Pharoh of Ancient Egypt.
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learn about...hinduism!
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summeriansBC: There type of writing is called cuneiform (pressed marks into clay). They made some inventions: the arch and Ziggurat.
