Julius Caesar/ Fallof the Roman Republic

Julius Caesar was a general and a politician he was born on 100B.C.  he was a general but when he crossed the river that the roman military souldent cross because its considered a threat he crossed it demanded to be romes leader so they made him leader and he was very good at proberganda he fought a war against the gauls withc were united tribes of barbarians. the senate did not like julius Caesar because Julius did not like to share his power so the sente murdered him each member stabed him once so they all shared the crime. he lanched the capagine of Ariovistus in 58 B.C.aginst germanic tribes then the campaign against the Belgae in 57 B.C. also aginst the Gauls and barbarians. they were called the Gallic Wars they lasted from 58 to 51 B.C. and then the campaign aganst the Veneti a barbarian tribe in the  Brittany Peninsula.

Charlemagne

Charlemagne was one off the greatest kings during the middle ages and ruled from 768 to 814 he inherited military power and some land he was born on  April 2, 742 one of the first things he did was the conquest of Saxony in 772 and it lasted 30 years but converted the pagan Saxons to Christianity he was a very religious person and he made many people convert to his religion he never lost a military campaign and he built up education during the middle ages and he started to get every one out by promoting education and building many other things  just as things were beginning to go well the vikings came along and started destroying things again just as Charlemagne died.he also enjoyed to learn how to read and right withc was unusual for a warrior king back then. he expanded and united some of Europe and spread Christianity.

Axis age/Golden age in Greece

The golden age of Greece happened from  500BC to 300BCduring the golden age of Greece humanism came into being where they believed that people could reach there full potential and that people can observe the world and question it. also the three philosophers came to Greece one of them was Socrates there method was to question everything but they got put on trial for corrupting the youth and the second is Plato which opened the academy and wrote the republic and they thought there was three classes a soldier a worker and a philosopher and the last philosopher Aristotle withc was Alexander the greats teacher but Aristotle was once Plato's teacher and he set up the lyceum during the golden age people also started sculpting and making art and huge architectural advances people also started to go to the amphitheater to see drama and comedy they even made advances in medicine,science and mathematics. the golden age of Greece ended when the pelopenisian war started between the two city states of Athens and Sparta .Sparta won but they were crippled.

Columbus Leaves Spain

In augast 1492 he leaves spain on his first voyage on october 1492 was the first sighting of the new world in the bahamas area then he lands in cuba he calimes the land that he goes on for spain and he captures some of the poeple as slaves and he was agressive to them and triked them. he aslo wanted to spread the word of chirstianinty to the new world and also his ships were provided top him by queen isebella under the condition that he calmis the land for spain the ships he got were the santa maria the pinta and the nina the santa maria also carashed he was also sent to find gold and there was alot of gold.

Magna Carta

the magna carta demands the state right of the Barons in england it also states that the king must obey all rules and that no one is above the law it also made the due procces of law witch are rules the government must follow for fair and impartial trail it also made a parliment in england withc is made out of the house of commons and the house of lords withc have the power of the purse. the magna carta also makes it clear that the king cannot raise new taxes without first consolting his grand concil of lords.

Battle Of Tours

this battle was between the Muslims who were invading Europe and the franks witch were defending in France the Muslims thougth they were unstoppable because they have encountered little Resistance in Europe and plundered many villages easily they had underestimated the franks withc were lead by Charles "the hammer" who had recruited normall villagers into his army him and his army were Europe's last chance if they failed the Muslims would take over Europe when the two armys met and fought at the battle of Tours the franks won even tho they were out numbered while the battle was being fought Charles sent some men to attack the Muslims camp were they kept all there treasurers once the franks drove the Muslims out of Europe Charles "the hammer" became known as the saver of Europe and the saver of Christianity.

William The Conqueror

William got his name "the conqueror" because in 1066 he conquered England. he lived from 1028 - 1087 and ruled as king of England from1066 to 1087 he was born in normandin. when he was king in  England he built many castles and the tower of London and he won the battle  Hastings  in 1066 William was also son of Duke Robert I. he died in 1087 while riding a horse by falling off. hes famous for taking over many impotent city's in England such as London and controlling them.Also made the doomesday book containing qall the families and there lifestock.

Alexander the great

Alecanders father Philip who was the king of Macedonia was assasinated when alexander was 21 he had to be king and he also became a very good general he even conquered the persian empire and inspired many other great generals such as hanimbal and ceaser he took over egypt as well but he did it without any bloodshed the egiptians hered what he has done and decided that he was a god and made him king of the egptians as well also when he was 13 his father hired a teacher for himm named aristotle alexander was born on  356 B.C  he died in In 323 B.C  at the age of 33 when he returned to  Babylonia and died of unknown causes maybe natural or mabe he was poisened.

The Great Schism

The great Schism was when the division between eastern and western catholic churches in 1054 it was divided into the eastern Greek speaking churches of the Byzantine empire and the Latin speaking western empire the division between these two led to creation of the western roman catholic Churches and the eastern orthodox churches also in 1378 - 1417 there was a fight between pope urban the second and Clement VII they both wanted to be pope and they both claimed to be the true descendant of St.Peter.

Constantine The Great

Constantine the great and he made the new capital of Constantinople Constantine became emperor in 312 B.C he also made freedom of worship he made the beginning of the Byzantine empire he was also the first christian Roman emperor and greatly empowered Christianity in Europe be converting to it. he lived from 274 to 337 the capital he built had huge walls and strong defences and it was a center for trade from china middle east and Europe.

Rome sacked/Falls to Barbarians

in 410 the a group of barbarians called the Visigoths led by barbarian king aralic who has experience in roman combat and defence tactics attempted to capture Rome they started not by killing but by cutting of Romes food supply one of the main reasons they wanted to sack Rome is for food because they were getting hungry once they have been cutting of the supply line to Rome the Romans continued to have games in the Colosseum but they were starving and some people even turned to cannibalism so they let the Visigoths in and once they came in they stared stealing everything and killing every one in site once they left Rome completely unable to take care of itself they moved south and Alaric died shortly afterwards Rome never recovered and the entire continent of Europe fell into the dark ages.

Crusades

The crusades were military campaigns that were made to capture the holy city of Jerusalem witch was captured by the Muslims they were first ordered by pope urban the second who was from Europe he felt that Jerusalem was a Catholic city and belonged to the Christians witch name it "the city of God" the Muslims did not want to give up Jerusalem because there leader Muhammad went there and it also has the dome of the rock. the people in the crusades were knights and other warriors the symbol of the crusades was a red cross there were nine crusades totall in history pope urban declared war on the Muslims in 1095 by saying "Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned." many crusaders were also just volunteer's who just wanted to be true Christians the crusades did take Jerusalem  put they never managed to hold it for very long. One of the other most impotent things about the crusades is that they brought back knowledge from the middle east that helped bring Europe out of the dark ages and they also conquered Constantinople.

Time Line

Unification Of China 221 to 206 B.C.

Han Dynasty  206B.C. to 220A.D.

Sung Dynasty 969 AD - 1126 AD

Confucius  551 B.C.

Tang Dynasty 618 to 907 A.D

Zheng He 1405 to 1433

Lao Zi and Taoism

Buhdism comes to China 500 BCE

Mongols Take China 1206

Great Wall of China 220–206 BC

Buhdism comes to China

In 500 BCE Siddhartha Gautama witch became the Buddha founded Buddhism Buddhism reached China by the silk road and other trading routes it came at the time of the Han Dynasty. When it reached China the emperor had a dream with Buddha in it and sent out two officials to go to India they reached two monks that carried Buddhas picture and some scrolls they invited them back to the capital and introduced him to the emperor the emperor said that that's the person from his dream and then had the monks translate the scrolls. Buddhism became very popular in China and many people started making art and temples associated with it.

Zheng He

Zheng He was a boy that got taken from his village as a gift to the Palace and he was casterated when he grew up during the Ming Dynasty he became admiral of the biggest fleet of ships that existed at the time in the whole world he made seven voyages between 1405 to 1433 then the chines emporer ordered all the ships to be destroyed and all the infomation about the voyeges to be burned.However Zheng He went all over the world even to Mecca and the middle east he has been to thertyseven country and even to africa.

Sung Dynasty

Also known as Song Dynasty this Dynasty was divided into north and south during this time the economy and cultural things grew and so did the population also confucionsim started to take place the founder of the Sung dynasty was Zhao Kuangyin who had a lot military power tword the end of the Zhou dynasty. During the Sung dynasty people made advancments with iron and steel and new kind of bridges and waterways also bombs and gunpowder was used during this dynasty.They were very busy with the economy.But also northern Sung dynasty got taken by Jin Dynasty.

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty lasted from 618 to 907 A.D. This was Chinas Golden age poeple were making art and poetry was the most importent kind and the three main poets were Du Fu, Li Bo, and Wang Wei and poeple were weving things out of silk there was no war. The founder of the Tang Dynasty was  Gao Zu. This was a very peacefull time. 

Han Dynasty

The Han dynasty lasted from 206B.C. to 220A.D. this dynasty started when the people of China rebelled agenst the oppressive ruler. But during the Han dynasty China had a great economy and made many cultural progress Changan was the capital of the western Han dynasty and it was only rivaled with Rome as one of the best cities at that time. Also they expanded china into parts of Vietnam and central Asia Liu Bang or later named Gao Zu during this emperors rule the population and the economy grew the next emperor was Wudi also Taoism was brought into being during the Han dynasty.

Unification Of China

China was unified by the Qin dynasty under the rule of Shi Huangdi the Qin dynasty lasted from 221 to 206 B.C. once they have beat all other provinces he made a legalist form of government that means if you do bad things you will get severely punished if you do good things you will be rewarded Shi Huangdi divided china into 36 districts and sent out government officials to govern them. People did not like Shi Huangdi because the thing he was building were very expensive and cost a lot of taxes and he over worked many people he also banned books that talked about other forms of government. This lasted until the Han dynasty came to power.

Confucius

Confucis was born around 551 B.C. he was born in a bad time were there was alot of bloodshed and war he saw many bad things his dad died when he was young so he had to live with only his mom when he grew up he made a pholosophy called confucinism witch consists of Te,Li,Wen,Chuntzu and Jen he traveld to many importent people to try to convince them to confucinism many people dint want to because it gave the poeple alot of power and it says that the poeple can give the leader the mandate of heaven and they can take it away if the leader is bad confucius became a wondering teacher and no one wanted to follow his ways so he died many years later china adopted his teachings and it dominated chines society and intelactual development for twentythree centures. Confusinim also wants you to have good relationships with your family.

Great Wall of China

 This wall is built in northern China and was built for defensive purposes it is built along mountains and is stretches out for miles it was started being built in the Zhou Dynasty and got even longer after a state named Qin built more on to it during the Qin Dynasty and then finally was finished in the Ming Dynasty and it now stretches from the Gansu Province in the west to the Liaoning Province in the east.Many workers were needed to complete the great wall and many of the workers died from working to hard if they complained or did not work thgey would be killed they died from starvation and disease even chirdren were forced to work. also the great wall wasent always this big there were many smaller walls but now they got connected and made the great wall. 

Lao Zi and Taoism

Taoism and Confucianism is one of the two main religious or philosophical systems in china some of Taoisms impotent texts are the Tao-te ching, Daode Jing and  Zhuangzi. The founder of Taoism is Lao Zi. Taoism emphasizes orthopraxy witch is write action over orthodoxy witch is right belief. Taoism simply means "The Way". It was founded around 400 B.C. and has been around for some 2000 years. This religion mainly consists around goodness like Confucianism. But there is also the belief of Ying and Yang witch is the balance between good and bad theres a strong belief in nature as well.