5|4|3|2|1 150-175

5 Comments

• These chapters are when Europe decided that they should explore the oceans and trade.


• Europe had began trading with the help of Asian technology.


• Asia had better technology to trade with other countries but Europes technology wasn't as advanced as theirs was.


• The Chinease were very skilled at making their ships they had special ships built to sail for monsoon wheather.


• Europe mainly wanted to trade with Asia to get spices to preserve their food for longer.

4 Questions

• What made Europe want to trade?


• Did trading work out for Europe?


• Did Europe trading have a big effect on the World?
  
• Did all of Europe trade?

3 Vocabulary

• rustic-simple, artless, or unsophisticated.


• arable-land that can be or is cultivated.


• despotic-of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical

2 Literary Terms

• Foil


• Mood

1 Overview Sentance

These chapters are about Europe in the later middle ages which was when they began to trade with countries like Asia and Africa.

5|4|3|2|1 119-150

5 Comments

• These chapters are about Western Chritendom



• At first when I read the title to this chapter I thought it would be about Christianity but instead it is about the Eastern Roman Empire.



• In this chapter is when the Barbarians who moved south into the late Roman Empire had tried to take over.


• It also mentions Asia, China, and India. But it mostly mentions China and the Mongols and it breafly mentions India.


• It mentions how the people from India bealived in Hinduism.

4 Questions

• How many religions are there?



• What was the Chritendom effect on the World?



• What effect did the Barbarians have on the World?



• What did the fall of the Roman Empire have on the World?

3 Vocabulary

• acclimatized- To become acclimated or adapted.



• incoherent- lacking unity or harmony of elements



• gartered-An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

2 Literary Terms

• Tragedy



• Puns

1 Overview Sentance

These chapters are about the impact on the World the Western Christendom had on it.

5|4|3|2|1 92- 119

5 Comments

• This chapter mostly mentions the expansion of Islam.


• I think that these are the most intresting chapters so far.


• This chapter mentions what happened in the World during AD 571.
  
• This chapter alos mention the South and East Slavs.


• I dont think that the South and East slavs had a big impact on the World because it had a very short section.

4 Questions

• Why did they call the South and East slavs , slavs?


• Why was Gold so important back then?


• Why was the expaction of Islam so important?


• What did the South and East slavs have to do with North America?

3 Vocabulary

• Semitic-a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.


• reverberation- the fact of being reverberated or reflected.


• caliphate-the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.

2 Literary Terms

• Allusion


• Conflict

1 Overview Sentance

This chapter is about the expansion of Islam and the South and East Slavs.

5|4|3|2|1 69-92

5 Comments

• In these chapters we learn about Israel and Christianity.



• Jerusalem was the Capital of Israel and was considered Holy Land for the Christians and Muslimas and there was a war between them to decided who should own the land.



• These chapters also mention the Jewish people and how they effected that era.



• The Religion that had the greater impact was Christianity because it was spread through most of Europe including Spain.



• This chapter was divided into sections and one of those sections mentioned the Guptas.

4 Questions

• What were the effects of the Guptas?



• Where did people get the idea of religion from?



• Why did they name Christianity , Christianity?


• Why was there conflict between the religions?

3 Vocabulary

• tortuous- full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked


• chasm-a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface


• catafalque-a raised structure on which the body of a deceased person lies or is carried in state.

2 Literary Terms

• Irony


• Mood
  

1 Overview Sentance

These few chapters mention how religion was a big part of the making of the Earth.

5|4|3|2|1 42-69

5 Comments

• The Hellene tribes men of the Iron Age, who moved down through Thessaly and Boetia, took Cointh, burt Mycenae and overran the Pelpopponnease.


• These few chapters were about the Hellas and Alexander.


• The greeks created the vocabulary of the European Philosophy, politics, science and arts.


• The greeks first devised constitutional self- goverment by the citizens of a slave-owning society, and plato and Aristotle analysed phtics more deeply than Confucis.


• There was also information about Rome in these chapters.

4 Questions

• What made all of those things occur?


• Where Hellas and Alexander important to the history of the world?


• Why did the Greek create sculptures?


• Does Religion have to do with the creation of the world?

3 Vocabulary

• evoked- to call up or produce


• degrogatory-having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful:


• armament-the arms and equipment with which a military unit or military apparatus is supplied

2 Literary Terms

• Allude


• Similie

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter I leared about the impact Greeks and Romans had on the World.

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.