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.