5|4|3|2|1 pggs 20-42

5 Comments

• These two chapters are mostly about the Bronze age of Europe.
• The Neolithic culture of Crete is immensely old.
• By rge 1150 BC these Bronze Age lords were being overwhelmed by new invaders from the north the iron weapons and greater manpower.
• Bronze Age of Europe, like Mycenae, now had to face the infiltration of new invaders
• The decline of the Hittie and Egyptian empires in the thirteenth century BC gave the Phoenician cities a short lived independence, and afterwards they were far too useful for the Assyrians and Persiajs to destroy.

4 Questions

• What type of Evidence do the people who wrote this have?
• Do any of these stories have to deal with religion?
• Is the book wrote by the date of the incidents?
• What would happen if the Bronze age in Europe would have never tooken place?

3 Vocabulary

• Hellenic- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of
• Ionia-of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of
• Savagery- an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing
• Similie

1 Overview Sentance

• I leared about most of the history of the Bronze Age of Europe

5|4|3|2|1 # 1 Man through the ages pgs. 1-19

5 Comments

• This book is about the history of the worl and of the archaic origins to the present.
• This book mentions the roots of the World and how it all got started.
• The book mentions that by 4000 BC lower Mesopotamia was being colonized. probly from Iran, by a people now called Ubaidans from a site near Ur.
• It also describes the Bronze age of the Empires of Asia.

4 Questions

• Why were the Bronze age of Empires of Asia important
• What would happen if the civilazation in Mesopotamia never took place?
• What are Ubaidans?
• What did that have to do with the first civilazations?

3 Vocabulary

• Orthodox- conforming to the Christian faith as represented in the creeds of the early church.
• Docile - an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity
• Apartheid-
  any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.

2 Literary Terms

• Aliteration
• Hypervalie

1 Overview Sentance

In these few chapters it is like an introduction to the historyof civilazations.