UPDATE (1/7/2015):
STUDY OF MEDIEVAL SIEGE WEAPONS
I. GOVERNMENTS FLIPBOOK
List of governments: DEMOCRACY, MONARCHY, AUTOCRACY, OLIGARCHY, DICTATORSHIP, ANARCHY, COMMUNIST, REPUBLIC
Definition of each government and a symbol of each-
II. WORLD HISTORY EVENTS CHART
Dates | Event | Summary | Who |
534 | Justinian's Code | decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life | Justinian |
610 | Islam is founded | Mohammad | |
732 | Battle of Tours | Charles Martel defeated the Muslims | Charles Martel |
751-987 | Carolingian Renaissance | Reign of Frankish rulers | Pepin |
1000 | Vikings Discover New World | Leif Ericsson | |
1066 | Battle of Hastings | Battle fought between the Normans and Saxons- Normans won | William the Conqueror |
1099 | First Crusade | Holy War fought to gain control of the Holy land | Pope Urban II |
1215 | Magna Carta | The Great Charter- the most celebrated document in English History, which guaranteed certain basic political rights | John |
1453 | 100 Years War | Edward III | |
1347 | Black Plague | Disease which killed one-third of Europe, left purple and black spots on skin | Europe |
1414 | The Great Schism | A division in the medieval Roman Catholic Church, during which rival popes were established in Avignon and in Rome | Pope Urban IV and Clement VII |
III. European Renaissance Vocabulary Chapter 17 (Patterns of Interaction), Chapter 11 page 158 (Brown Book) Click on picture for close-up view
IV. MAP OF EUROPE 1500
V. FLIPBOOK OF NOTED ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, AUTHORS OF THE RENAISSANCE
NAME | DATE LIVED | FROM | OCCUPATION | FAMOUS FOR: |
Leonardo da Vinci | 1452-1519 | Italy | sculptor,inventor,painter | Mona Lisa, Last Supper |
Michelangelo | 1475-1564 | Italy | Florentine artist | David, Moses, the Pieta, Sistine Chapel ceiling |
Niccolo Machiavelli | 1469-1527 | Italy | courtier and politician in Florence | Wrote book The Prince |
Galileo Galelei | 1564-1642 | Italy | Italian scientist | studies of motion |
Johann Gutenberg | 1395-1468 | Germany | inventor | printing press |
Masaccio | 1401-1428 | Poland | artist | rules of perspective in art |
Bruelleschi | 1377-1446 | Italy | architect | dome that created an immense interior space |
Petrach | 1304-1374 | Italy | Italian scholar | collected and studied ancient texts |
William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | England | English writer and playwright | Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet |