Western Civ

By T@y!or
  • 200

    Rome

    Rome
    Acient Rome was much like ancient Greece, except they were still becoming more evolved and they were starting to focus more on medician and realistic aspects.
  • 476

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    The Middle Ages was the giant set-back, the dark ages. People lost all their knowledge and advancements, most had to just focus on surviving.
  • Nov 21, 1300

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    The Renaissance were the people starting to finally evolve again and gain back the knowledge from before the dark ages, starting to get the advancements in art (which is what they're best knwon for) and science, along with some knowledge in medicine
  • Nov 21, 1492

    European Exploration

    European Exploration
    European Exploration was the time Columbus came to the America's, and commited the horrible genocide on teh poor native peoples there. The colonies there enslaved teh natives and started the african slave trade, to grow crops and harvest the gold and other treasures there.
  • Nov 21, 1521

    Reformation

    Reformation
    The reformation was a big event for the church mostly, because they had complete control over their areas. They did it mostly for war and personal gain, and someone that stood up to that and almost got executed in the process was Martin Luther, who created the 95 theses
  • Spanish Armada

    Spanish Armada
  • Scientific Revolution

    Scientific Revolution
    The scientific revolution is really where many great scientific discoveries were made that changed the course of how we learn today, and many of the inventions, like the telescope, or Newton's laws of motion wouldn't exsist without this time period. Women were still barred from science, they couldn't really help out at all.
  • Absolutism

    Absolutism
    King Louis XIV was the really well-known king from this time period, because of the idea of absolutism. The idea of absolutism is that the king was given power from God, and they ruled everything, from battle strategies to what you were allowed to wear. King Louis XIV was a good example of this idea because he distrusted his nobles, and he never asked for help on any matter, he did everything himself.
  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution
  • Enlightenment

    the age after the scientific revolution, where people focused finding out more about humans instead of planets and other things.
  • Greece

    Greece
    Ancient Greece persons were very evolved for their time, they had many good medicians, architecture ideas, war strategies, and weapons. Art was mostly sculprutes dedicated to the gods, seeing as the people were highly religious and they thought everything the gods created and everything that happened was something the gods did.