Year 8 History Overview

Year 8 History Overview

Period: Jan 1, 600 to Dec 31, 1600

The Vikings

Jan 1, 700

In 700AD, the first sight of a group of people called the Vikings, were established. Before they had become Vikings, they lived as fisherman, traders, craftsman or farmers. They travelled the seas invading other countries, stealing from locals and using weapons to kill anyone who had stood up to them.

Battle of Hastings

Oct 14, 1066

Cause: King Edward told William of Normandy that he was going to be king. But on King Edward's deathbed he changed his mind and crowned Harold of Wessex king. William found out later and started a war. Harold lost and died.
Effect: Saxon people were enslaved and a big effect on how English people lived. The French brought over many rules.

The First Crusade

Aug 5, 1096

Muslim armies had conquered much of northern Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Spain, which had been some of the most heavily Christian areas in the world. Trade was effected throughout europe and education value decreased.

Minamoto Yoritiomo gains the title of the Shogun

Aug 2, 1192

Cause: Minamoto Yoritomo gained his position by killing all his relatives until he was the last person left in his family. Effect: Minamoto Yoritomo gained his position as the Shogun from 1192 - 1199 because of death.

The Mongol Empire

Jan 1, 1206

There was fueding between the nomadic tribes of the steppes of Central Asia. A large army was established with strict laws of behaviour established and trading was encouraged more and the economic conditions improved. This also meant the Mongols who were very experienced in sieged situtuations were able to rule the majority of China by 1368.

The Mongols try to invade Japan

Jun 19, 1274

Cause: A letter was sent by Kublai Khan which reached Japan, threatening the country to either submit by paying tribute or a suffer invasion. Effect: More than 13, 000 soldiers died. Around 200 ships sunk. 900 vessels containing more than 40,000 troops was dispatched from Korea.

The Ottoman Empire

Aug 4, 1299

The Ottoman Empire were very strong in horsemen and sieged war and were able to take over parts of Europe which caused a fight between the Ottoman's and the European's.
The French military and it's leader Napoleon won back many parts of the Ottoman Empire's land over 4 centuries.

The Battle of Bannockburn

Aug 6, 1314

The scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English army of King Edwards II. The scottish victory ended the English attempt to reduce Scotlnd to be a vasal kingdom.

Hundred Years War

Nov 6, 1337

The Hundred Years War was a series of wars, between the countries England and France. The background of the Hundred Years War went back as far to the reign of William the conqueror. When William the conqueror had become king in 1066. after his victory at the Battle of Hastings,

Outbreak of Plague in Central Asia

Oct 21, 1346

Cause: Fleabite transmits common plague bacteria. Normally, the fleas that bite humans Pullex irritans are a separate species from the fleas that live on rats Xenopsylla cheopis, and the bubonic bacteria can survive indefinitely in its normal host, the European black rat Rattus rattus. A desperate flea would mistakenly bite a human and then the human contracts the disease. Once a human is infected, the plague bacterium can spread for a few weeks.
Effect: European dead somewhere between 50-70 mil

The Flagellants

Jan 1, 1347

The flagellants were a small group of people, ranging from about 300- 400 people. They would walk through towns and cities whipping themselves. Since they lacked in technology to find the real reason why the Black Death occurred, they thought that the disease was spread as a punishment from God. The flagellants whipped themselves to try and get God’s forgiveness and relieve their sins. This did not work of course because they did not have the brains to understand what caused the Black Death.

The Black Death entered Europe

Oct 23, 1347

In 1347, Genoese trading ships arrived on the shores Of Sicily, Italy. The trading ships contained dead bodies whose lives had already been taken by the pandemic. Infected men who had caught the disease and infected rats that were hiding in the docks. Once the ships had arrived, they dumped the carriers that contained the hidden infected rats. The rats then travelled through the cities and towns, spreading the disease.

The Black Death

Jan 1, 1348

Cause: Coming from the east, the Black Death came to the shores of Italy in 1348. All across Europe death was unleashed and was spreading incredibly Effect: When the epidemic died almost three years, somewhere between twenty five percent and fifty percent of Europe’s population was dead

Reoocurence of the Black Death

Jan 15, 1360

After 8 years of recovery from the Black Death, it happened again, twice. The second time the black plague happened was in 1360 and the third time was in 1369. These two reoccurrences killed a lot more people and this led to the Great Plague of London which happened in 1665- 1666.

Henry Tudor VII

Jan 1, 1457

Henry Tudor spent his first years of his life in Wales, England. He had grown up there until his custody had been sold to a loyal Yorkist, William Herbert in 1462. Henry VII had dated his reign before his victory at Bosworth. Henry became the first Tudor king beginning a period of great stability for the English Monarchy.

The Mona Lisa

Aug 3, 1503

Early in the 16th century Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa between the years of 1503 and 1506. At the time he was living in Florence, Italy. The Mona Lisa is known as one of the greatest paintings of all time. The name of the women in the painting is Lisa Gherardini. The Mona Lisa is being hang up in the Louvre Museum. In 1911, the Mona Lisa had been stolen but then replaced some time later.

Battle of Nagashino

Sep 2, 1575

Cause: Oda Nobunaga was assassinated by one of his own generals before he fully consolidated power, but he was the first Daimyo to claim that he was fighting to unify the entire country under one military ruler. He chased the last Ashikaga Shogun out of Kyoto and was on his way to consolidating his power when he was betrayed. Effect: It put Oda Nobunaga in a position to oust the Shogun and take Kyoto and also saw the end of one kind of warfare and the advent of another

Odu Nobunaga Dies

Jun 21, 1582

Nobunaga was said to have treated his retainers haughtily, and this seems to have been nowhere more the case than with Akechi Mitsuhide. A relatively late addition to Nobunaga's inner circle, Mitsuhide was a talented general and poet, perhaps provoking his lord's jealousy as a result of the latter. The best-known story regarding the rift between the two men and just unusual enough to be true occurred in 1577. In that year, Akechi had been tasked with subduing Tamba, and in the course of his camp

Tokugawa Ieyasu gives the title of the Shogun to his son

Sep 18, 1616

Cause: Ieyasu was killed in 1616 and his son was given the Title of the shogun Effect: Tokugawa's son became the shogun from than on.

The Khmer Empire

Mar 2, 2022

The Khmer Empire began to decline water taxes due to the costs imposed on the people who could not afford to pay and also supporting the rulers lavish lifestyle. Due to religious beliefs (Buddhism) this did not allow people to rule any land of their own.