Friday, April 10, 2009

Indus Valley

Despite not hearing of the Indus Valley in any of your history books it was still quite a happening place.  It first had a united civilization at the beginning of the Bronze Age. This civilization was not really that powerful but they still were quite influential and made some historic cave paintings.  Still their civilization collapsed at the beginning of the iron age.  This ushered in a new leader called the Iron Age Verdic period.  this was not a combined civilization but more of a common culture that was shared by many city-states.  This culture traveled farther than it did before and the warfare was grand.  Later this area was ruled over by other people such as the Persians and also Alexander the Great.  Finally there was the Mauyra Empire that took back the Indus Valley.  This did not last long with the Mughal Empire coming back from the middle east attacked the Indians and they eventually took over for a long time before the Indians finally returned.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Asian Conquests

 Asia before the modern times may have seen  boring and stupid.  There were still a couple of mammoth warlords that have had a very large impact on the history of the area.  One of these main men were Genghis Kahn.  Genghis lived in a normal tribe were he was the son of a war-lord emperor.  By diplomacy and wars he was able to unite the tribes of Mongolia and after doing this he had hundreds of very skilled horseman at his disposal.  Using these warriors he attacked tribe after tribe until he controlled all of Asia.  He died at the height of his empire and was the Alexander the Great of the Far East.  Another great man was Attila the Hun.   Attila was a great warrior who lead one of the largest barbarian bands in history.  Preying on the Roman empire he achieved great treasures until the Western Roman Empire struck revenge.  They untied all of the victims of Attila and they attacked him in a battle that left Attila looking weak and cowardly.  The last major ruler was Kublai Khan, Kublai was the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty and ruled over present day China and Mongolia.  During his rule he tried to invade Japan and greeted Marco Polo.  All of these exciting things happened in Asia so it really actually was a happening place.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Ancient South America

Ancient South America was made up of three main civilizations, the Maya, the Inca, and the Aztecs.  All of these empires were basically the same with a few small differences.  They all lived in the tropical areas except for the Incas who lived in the Andes Mountains and had to deal with a harsher climate.  Another difference was that the Maya who was a very loose society that just had common believes and ideas.  These were the only large differences with everything else about the society being basically the same.  They all had very similar religion that was based on many gods that reacted to different sacrifices.  These sacrifices were a main part of the Aztec Civilization with any droughts or floods being cause of the gods and the solution to the problem was more sacrifices.  There was also many other similarities such as the calendar, warriors, and lifestyles all of the cultures were advanced and great in the South American Lands.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel was an immense biblical tower built after the the great flood.  It was built in the town of Babilu, the Akkadian word for Babylon.  The Town was controlled by the great king Nimrod at the time.  The tower was not built to tribute god but instead it was made for the greatness of man and built by them.  In actual history the tower was really made by the great king Nimrod who increased the army greatly.  The tower was probably instead a great Ziggaurat built by Nimrod  to give to his war gods in thanks of his great victories.  The tower then began Babylon's rise as an empire.  By building such a great Ziggurat people came to worship at the temple.  Soon the place was a central area of trade and the empire grew to a large and great empire.  And all of it started because of the Tower of Babel.


Saturday, March 28, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Ica Age

The Ice Age was a name that was used for four different events that covered the north part of the world in a sheet of ice.  This changed the entire culture of any small stone age tribe that lived in the area.  Most of the tribes were wiped out completely because food and animals were hard to find, still others moved to the south to a  more warmer climate.  Still some tribes were able to quickly adapt and survive in the colder area.  The reasons for these changes are still unknown but some people have some guesses.  One Idea is that the earth may have changed its position in its atmospheric path.  Another idea is that the continents moved very far before the Ice Age and this made the climate change.  The Next idea would be the variation of the sun's energy output, this would change heat on earth and make it easier for ice to form.  The final idea was that of Volcanism and that the earth's core cooled down making the earth an easier place for ice to form, all of this made the ice age possible.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Israel Empire

 The united Kingdom started when 12 families decided to bond together as a united people because of outer threats.  At first they used judges for different terms but then they wanted a long term king so Samuel anointed Saul.  Saul was a very smart king but began to become corrupted and he was no longer liked.  This was when god led Samuel to David who was a little farm boy but soon became known as the King of Israel.  With the technology of the Iron Age he was able to lead a great army in battle and extended his empire defeating the hated Philistines and sending them back to their own empire.  He defeated an uprising from his nephew and then also made great stories in the bible.  Finally he left the Israelites in great shape even though their empire ended soon thereafter.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Stone Age

The Stone Age was a widely used term to describe the time that homo-sapiens used and shaped stone into tools.  This enabled humans to become different from their animal friends.  They soon moved into the more famous Bronze and Iron Age but as it was the Stone Age was what it was.  The Stone Age was a universal scientific stage for the whole world.  Everyone was using flint as spears to hunt small or large animals.  The Stone Age as also used to describe the times that humans made tools of any kind.  This included the bowls and pots they also made.  They used all of the spears and bowls to hunt and cook the food because during the stone age humans mainly worked together in tribes that were from ten to thirty people in size.  They were this big so they were was not starvation because if there was any more the stone tools were not capable of bringing in enough food. So this was how it was in the Stone Age and it would not change for a long time.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

John McCain is being hunted down by Barack Obama

Aztec

 The Aztec Empire was not really a united land with common rules, laws, and leaders.  Instead it was more of an alliance that had  the same language.  This alliance was called the Aztec Triple Alliance and the language was the Nahutal Language.  Together with a common alliance these city states had a center city called Technochtilan in the Lake Texacoco.  This city had many large temples that were part of one of two major aspects of the Aztec Empire.  The first aspect was their religion.  Their religion was very strong with priests being just as powerful as government advisors.  they decided on the calendar and most of the science and weather aspects are dictated by religion and whenever there is a flood or drought it is blamed on the gods and human sacrifices were made to turn things around.  the second aspect was their military and how they ruled over their neighbors with threats and ultimatums.  They went into combat with axes and clubs and fought hard hand to hand combat.  This combat was not practical though because they warriors tried not to kill the victims.  This led to the empire's downfall by Cortez and the Spanish.

Monday, March 2, 2009

History Simplified: Ancient South America

Ancient South America was made up of three main civilizations, the Maya, the Inca, and the Aztecs.  All of these empires were basically the same with a few small differences.  They all lived in the tropical areas except for the Incas who lived in the Andes Mountains and had to deal with a harsher climate.  Another difference was that the Maya who was a very loose society that just had common believes and ideas.  These were the only large differences with everything else about the society being basically the same.  They all had very similar religion that was based on many gods that reacted to different sacrifices.  These sacrifices were a main part of the Aztec Civilization with any droughts or floods being cause of the gods and the solution to the problem was more sacrifices.  There was also many other similarities such as the calendar, warriors, and lifestyles all of the cultures were advanced and great in the South American Lands.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Barack Obama is Buff

Ancient Greece

The Greeks started in the 8th century and they were formed into a tribe called Mycenaean,  they had a small alphabet and even some map-making skills.  They show great poise and they are able to beat the Trojans and claim Helen in what is the one of the only times Greece is united durning the great Trpjan war which is reccorded in the Iliad and Oddyssey.  In the next century the city-states have started and already their have been some political strife and the class basis has been invented in this hard political life.  In the next hundred years the Greeks have made surrounding colonies that made great economic successfulness.  On their high they beat the Persians twice and show their magnificent power to all.  Not only with military but the great thinkers Plato and Socrates made the world of philosiphy alot more interesting.  Next in this soap- opera tragedy comes with the brutal Spartans corrupting Athens and coming in afterwords to take it over and leaving it in chaos.  Athens is able to regrow but it is too little too late, Greek is wrouined finally being taken over by Alexander the Great. 

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Akkadian Empire

The Akkadian Empire was a large war tribe that was brought to power and shambles in a blink of an eye.  The empire was a tiny city-state like all of the others until a key person came along.  This person was Sargon.  Sargon was born a normal person but with his great leadership became a person in power.  He created a great army that was not rivaled by any other Mesopotamia.  He soon created a great army from the Med. Sea to Oman and to Afghanistan.  Riots sson broke out and he squashed all of them but eventually he died.  The empire soon fell into bad hands and when a bad drought and famine came the whole empire collapsed.  This left most of Mesopatamia  with a void that was filled in with even more city-states.  But Akkasia will always be rembered as the empire with the first great empire and Sargon as the first great conqueror.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

The Tower of Babel was an immense biblical tower built after the the great flood.  It was built in the town of Babilu, the Akkadian word for Babylon.  The Town was controlled by the great king Nimrod at the time.  The tower was not built to tribute god but instead it was made for the greatness of man and built by them.  In actual history the tower was really made by the great king Nimrod who increased the army greatly.  The tower was probably instead a great Ziggaurat built by Nimrod  to give to his war gods in thanks of his great victories.  The tower then began Babylon's rise as an empire.  By building such a great Ziggurat people came to worship at the temple.  Soon the place was a central area of trade and the empire grew to a large and great empire.  And all of it started because of the Tower of Babel.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Recent African Origin

As we begin to utilize our new feet and intelligence we begin to move around.  It is said that we started in Afica and because of the diet of fish we became smarter.  Iur new intelligence led us to grow our population and with thatwe needed new land to develop.  So every new generation the tribes very slowly farther away from their old land eventually they made it soon to asia.  They continued walking slowly somee going to Europe and some farther across Asia.  Eventually they crossed the land bridge and made it to the Americas.  Some people learned the seafaring ways and eventually inhabited some of the islands in the Pacific.  But just like a virus we soon had taken over the world and were ready to adapt and advance on our new area and we did this soon forgetting where our other humans went.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Neandrathal

Neandrathals were probably a tribe of humans who took a early trip to Europe. Here they adapted into a diffrent kind of human. They beacme strictly carnivores this meant they had to be bigger and stringer to take down larger beasts. They adapted into these predators with quick fashion. Eventually the modern homo sapiens found them and a type of racial war insued. The sapiens were smarter and used a more lethal type of throwing spear rather than a stabbing spear which caused the neandrathals to get closer and caused more injuries to the people. The two people started to investigate one another but eventually there were too many homo sapiens for the neandrathals so they probably either attacked the sapins or the food supply became so low they died of starvation. But what is for sure is that the neandrathal was a race that could'nt compete in the war of survival.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Cave Men

As most people say the first human and cave man came from an ape in east Africa probably 3 to 3.9 million years ago. They acted much like modren apes probably do except with a bit more technology (tools). Getting more human 1 million years later the Homo Habilis appeared as a human and a ape combined but most likley had mostly ape traits. half a million years later the first human type animal came on the map as a human with long hair and a chimp like mouth, they lived mostly in Africa and a bit in Asia and maybe in europe. Another million years later the "cave man' came on seen with 93% of their brain human they had primitive socities and spears in Africa and Europe. Finally half a million years later (150,000 years ago) the Homo Sapien came on seen in Africa because of their fish diet they evoloved faster than the europeans who turned into neadrathals ( which became extinct from the humans), We used socities and kept spreading out until they covered the world.