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Villages banded together and make to kingdoms upper and lower Egypt. (p.88)
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Menes founded the first dynasty in Egypt and unified upper and lower Egypt. Menes also wore the upper and lower Egyptian crown to show that he unified Egypt. (p.89)
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The third dynasty ruled rose to power in the old kingdom. (p.90)
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The Sumerians took over Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent under Sargon. (p.60-64)
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In the Indus valley there were the Harappans and the Aryans. (p.126-129)
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According to an ancient stories Yu the great ruled China and founded the Xia Dynasty. (p.163)
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Mentuhotep II unified Egypt again and started the Middle Kingdom a period of stability. (p.69)
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Hebrews were ancestors of Israelites and Jews. They were simple herders but had a great impact on later civilizations. (p.202)
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In ancient Nubia there were villages. In some villages farmers became village leaders. One village leader took over other villages and called himself king, he called his kingdom Kush. (p.107-109)
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The Minoans lived on the island of Crete so they were great sailors and spent most of there time at sea and also traded a lot of goods. But when a volcano erupted north of Crete it made a tsunami and wiped out most of Crete. (p.230)
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Lots of people ruled in the Fertile Crescent during this period those people were Babylonians, Hittites, Kassites, the Assyrians, and the Chaldeans. (p.72-75)
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The Mycenaeans were considered to be the first Greek people because the Minoans didn't speak Greece. The Mycenaeans built fortresses in the Greece mainland. (p.231)
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Hammurabi was a ruler that ruled Babylon and was said to be the best monarch. He had a code called hammurabi's code that was a set of 282 laws that dealt with every day life. (p.72-73)
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Ahmose rose to power beginning Egypt's eighteenth dynasty and the beginning of the New Kingdom. (p.97)
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The first king was Saul he had some military success but he wasn't a strong king. (p.205)
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As Kush grew stronger Egypt didn't want to get attacked by them so the set out to conquer Kush. When Egypt won and they also destroyed the Kushite capital Kerma. (p.109)
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The Assyrians briefly took control of Babylon but soon overrun by invaders. (p.74-75)
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The Mycenaeasns decline was caused by invaders from Europe and at the same time earthquakes were happening and destroyed many cities. (p.231)
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The Zhou Dynasty was the longest lasting dynasty in china. During the Zhou Dynasty people created ideas on how to live the three ideas were Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism. (p.166-171)
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Romulus killed his brother Remus and named Rome after himself and became Romes first king. (p.297)
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Romulus founded the Roman Empire in 753 BC. In 476 AD Rome declined because of invaders. During the Roman Empire the Romans created a new type of government called the Roman Republic. (p.297-341)
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After Kush regained there power they wanted to take over Egypt and they succeeded. (p.109)
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A series of wars broke out in the Assyrian Empire and the Chaldeans took advantage of that and attacked the Assyrians. (p.75)
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Siddhartha Gautama created Buddism and called himself the Buddha "Enlightened One". (p.136-138)
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The great wall protected china from invaders and later was extended by the Qin Dynasty. (p.175)
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Athens focused on learning and teaching about many subjects and also had a strong army. (p.268-269)
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The Spartans valued military and fighting. They made the boys train hard and long to be in the military. (p.266-268)
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Cyrus the Great drove out invaders he also expanded his empire to cover the Fertile Crescent and almost all of Asia minor. (p.260-261)
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City-states used to trade between each other and some became richer than others and became great trading centers. The Greeks had become the best traders in the Aegean area, Greek ships sailed to Egypt and other cities around the black sea. (p.233)
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The Persians built an empire under Cyrus I, Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great), Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes. (p.260-265)
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The Romans created a new government system call a Republic the Roman Republic was the idea that people select leaders to govern them. (p.298)
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A man named Cleisthenes became leader in Greece and he overthrew the aristocracy "rich land owners that rule". He made a new type of government called a democracy where everyone would rule themselves. (p.238-241)
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Some Greek cities in Asia Minor rebelled against Persia and a few cities in mainland Greece sent soldiers to help rebel even though they lost the rebellion Darius the Persian king swore revenge on the Greeks. (p.263)
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Invaders reached the capital and they got defeated but the dynasty survived. But the lords started fighting each other and started the waring states period. (p.168)
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After the Persian War ended many city-states formed an alliance they wanted to punish the Persians they call the alliance the Delian League. (p.270)
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Gaul Conquered Rome and Rome had to pay a lot of money to make them leave the city. Other people herd of this so they tried to attack Rome to get a lot of money but Rome defeated all of the invaders and took all there land. (p.308)
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Alexander the Great built a huge empire it included Macedonia, part of Greece, Asia Minor, the Persian Empire and some of Egypt. His empire was so big it started in Macedonia and reached to the Indus River. (p.272-274)
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Candragupta Maurya controlled the northern part of India and founded the Mauryan Empire. (p.142-143)
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There were two later empires in India and they were the Mauryan and Gupta Empire. (142-145)
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Missionaries sailed to Sri Lanka and traveled on trade routes to spread Buddhism. (p.140)
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The king Ying Zheng unified china and called himself Shi Huangdi "first emperor". He used was legalism because it had a strong government with strict laws and bad punishments. The Qin dynasty declined when Shi Huangdi died and nobody could keep the people from rebelling against the new emperor and the country fell into civil war. (p.172-176)
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The Han Dynasty was the first Dynasty to have a peasant to become emperor he was Liu Bang. Later a new emperor took the throne and his name was Wudi he wanted a strong government so he took land from the lords and raised taxes. Wudi also used Confucianism for his government. (p.178-183)
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In 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were found by a group of young boys looking for a lost goat near the Dead Sea, one of the boys went exploring and found jars of filled with moldy scrolls. Careful studies reveled that is was written between 100 BC and 50 AD they also found that it included prayers, commentaries, letters, and passages. (p.112-113
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Julius Caesar was known for being a great and powerful general. In 50 BC he captured nearly all of Gaul (modern day France). (p.323)
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After the death of Julius Caesar his son Octavian (later called Augustus) and his assistant Mac Antony. Later Mac Antony divorced Octavian's sister and Octavian wanted to kill Mac but he excepted and committed suicide with his new wife. (p.324)
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Jesus was arrested then was executed by crucifixion and three days later he rose from the dead. (p.336)
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At first Indians had trouble explaining Buddhism to China but then they used some Daoism ideas to help explain Buddhism and soon almost everyone in China liked the idea of Buddhism. Soon there were Buddhist temples altars in the emperor's palace. (p.188-189)
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The first emperor of the Gupta Empire was Candra Gupta I and he was Hindu, he reunited India after the Mauryan Empire collapsed. Candra Gupta took over some neighboring areas and brought a lot of northern India under his control. Candra Gupta II took the throne in India and the Gupta Empire reached its high point under his rule people prospered and the economy strengthened. (p.144- 145)
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The cause of Kushs' decline were multiple things. Cows were allowed to overgraze, and trade declined. Then they got attacked by the Aksumite army and the last influences in Kush were gone. (p.113)
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The Talmud is a set lessons for everyday life. (p.212)
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In the USA they use a government system called a representative democracy. In ancient Greece they used a democracy. They are similar because in both they have the people vote on changes.
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The first computer was created in 1938 and was considers to be the first working modern computer. In Harappan society in India they had indoor bathrooms and pluming. So there were advancement in ancient times and now.
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Nine eleven was a tragic day tons of people died kind of like the black death. The black death killed many people not by terrorists but by a deadly plague. Both had a similar result that was a lot of people died.
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In 2004 there was a huge tsunami that killed a bunch of people. Like in 2004 on the island of Crete there was a volcano eruption that wiped out the Minoan civilization. They were similar by that a lot of people died because of natural Disasters.
