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Period: 4000 BCE to 600
Ancient History -> Greek Mythology.
Ancient History was the beginning of religion and writing. In Greece they used Greek mythology as a way to explain how things happen like the sun rising, the weather, and etc. Mythology was their excuse for a religion before they found out about christianity. Two cities in Greece are Athens, the first democracy and a lot of art including sculpting painting and writing, and Sparta, which had a huge army. Greece's enemy is Rome -
3001 BCE
Lascaux
Lascaux's were from the caveman/nomadic period. A Lascaux is the caves near Lascaux, France. Those caves have drawings that the nomads drew on the walls. This was their way of writing since there was no pens or paper. They drew on the walls so we could know what happened way back then. The things that they would draw were animals, people, and hands of different sizes. Some animals that they would draw were bison/buffalo, deer, rhino, and etc. On September 12, 1940 the were discovered. -
3000 BCE
Pre-History
The pre-historic time was when there nomads. Nomads are people who constantly move, also known hunter gatherers. Since they moved around all the time they had to add images to places that they have already been to so they don't get lost or think that they haven't already been there. The nomads would gather materials to make things like tools, weapons, portable houses/tipis, and vases. The nomads use to draw on the vases, those drawings are called lascaux's. -
509 BCE
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire started in the year 509 B.C.E. This empire was ruled by two kings, brothers, named Romulus and Remus. In 150 B.C. Rome conquered North Africa, Italy, and Greece. Also around this time Rome had a republic, which means the people of that country, state, or city get to choose their leaders. The Roman Empire impacted us with language, currency, and buildings. -
330 BCE
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was the king of Greece. He conquered city-states and was hellenistic. Hellenistic means the spreading of greek culture. Two city-states that he conquered were Sparta and Athens. -
39 BCE
Ceaser Augustus
Ceaser controls Rome and becomes very powerful and very rich. -
476
Middle Ages Better Known as the Dark Ages
This was not a good era for art or education because of the crusades and wars. This is the time with monarchy/kings and queens. The monarchy thought they ruled because of a power that god gave them and were rich while surfs worked until they died. Other people get money by owning land and having an army. These people were called nobles. Another way people make money is pilgrimage. They would go on crusades to search for the holy land but then they turned into wars against the Muslims. -
1300
Renaissance
The Renaissance period was the rebirth or enlightenment period of Europe. This was also known as the Revolution. This era had a lot of art, inventions, trading, science, and even more art. I think this period influenced a lot of people to be creative. but the Renaissance wasn't all cupcakes and rainbows, The Black Death killed about 200 million people. Some believe that the cause of the Black Death was the bubonic plague, an infectious illness spread by rodents and the fleas infesting them. -
1517
The Reformation
The Reformation was the split in Christianity. It split into the Catholics and the Protestants -
Industrial Revolution
Urbanization causes factories and cities to grow. Wars happened like World War 1, the bloodiest war, World War 2, was the one with Adolf Hitler, and the cold war, very bad geopolitical tension after World War 2.
