Ancient Times to the Present

Ancient Civilizations: Egyptians

3400 BCE

The Egyptian civilization seemed like the perfect place for a country, with its constant water supply, warm climate, surrounding mountains, and the long coastline stretching across the top of Africa (Ignitia.com Editors). Egypt's Government began with King Menes's upper and lower kingdoms, in the capital at Memphis, he had started the first dynasty in Egyptian history (Ignitia.com Editors). Cities were established and trades were made along the Nile River (Ignitia.com Editors).

Ancient Civilizations: Babylon

2000 BCE

Mesopotamia, or the land between two rivers, was the chosen spot for many groups to settle (Ignitia.com Editors). This specific spot between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was this spot chosen by Babylonians (Ignitia.com Editors). Their capital city of Babylon was beautiful, and it lasted nearly two thousand years, this was the place where Hammurabi had codified the laws of Babylonia (Ignitia.com Editors)

Ancient Civilizations: Hebrews

1500 BCE

The Hebrews were descendants of Abraham (Ignitia.com Editors). Abraham moved to Canaan, where his family lived for a long time (Ignitia.com Editors). At this time, Hebrews were not staying true amongst God and fighting eachother, until they saw their Holy City Jerusalem destroyed by Babylonians (Ignitia.com Editors).

Greece

800 BCE

Greek history began in Crete in the early 800 BC (Ignitia.com Editors). The people of Crete had a great civilization until a fire forced them to evacuate the island (Ignitia.com Editors). They had moved to Greece where they had rebuilt their civilization (Ignitia.com Editors). They had to buy crops and food from outside countries due to poor soil (Ignitia.com Editors).

Ancient Civilizations: China

400 BCE

China had been the earliest civilization in the far east of what is now Asia, with the water supply coming from the Yangtze and Yellow rivers (Ignitia.com Editors). In northern China, the Yellow River would flood often, causing people to not grow any crops and be forced to move to southern China (Ignitia.com Editors). In southern China, the Yangtze River was perfect and the Chinese had grown its most known crop, rice (Ignitia.com Editors).

Rome

753

In 753, Rome followed the practice of the Etruscans and was ruled by a king who took from a senate made up of the people from the upper classes (Ignitia.com Editors). Rome was one of the most powerful countries of the time because of their barbaric fighting and conquering (Ignitia.com Editors). Rome is known as one of the most historic places now (Ignitia.com Editors).

American Revolution

1607

In 1607 Jamestown was discovered and settled by the English, this happened due to the split of the Catholic church in England (Ignitia.com Editors). The English had traded for colonies with the French but did not get enough land, so the English invaded and took land from the french (Ignitia.com Editors). The battle between the English and French was the result of the first 13 colonies (Ignitia.com Editors).

French Revolution

1789

The French Revolution was the result of the three known classes in France, the nobles, clergy, and peasants (Ignitia.com Editors). The King, Louis XVI was very lazy and did not take care of his country, then Napoleon Bonaparte had come to power by conquering France, he had won most of his battles but got taken over by the French government (Ignitia.com Editors). Napoleon had tried to reconquer France but did not succeed years later (Ignitia.com Editors).

WWI

1914

At the beginning of WWI, there were two alliances, the Triple Alliance, with Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, and the Triple Entente, with France, England, and Russia (Ignitia.com Editors). the first attack that triggered WWI was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, of Austria-Hungary (Ignitia.com Editors). That had triggered Germany to invade France and begin WWI, which lasted four years (Ignitia.com Editors).

WWII

1939

When WWII began, Nazi Germany had invaded France, and with Poland already under control, England and France had declared war on Germany, Italy, and Japan, these were the Axis powers (Ignitia.com Editors). The war wasn't looking good for the Allies until the bombing of pearl harbor near the end of the war, which had forced America to join the war (Ignitia.com Editors). America joined the allies and pushed Germany back, with the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler killing himself (Ignitia.com Editors).