Agreed. It's a bit like '1066 and all that' except.... they really mean it!
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:30:00 -0000
Sorry, I can't resist. These are entries in full:
France: A country in Europe. Thrived during the middle ages. The capitol
is Paris, France, which was founded in the Middle Ages.
Spain:Country located on the Iberian Penninsula. Borderd by the Alantic
Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean on the east. Portuagal is
located on the same penninsuala. Is the same country as was in the
medieval times. And known for its famous explorers
Japan: Group of islands of the western coast of Asia
<http://www.conservapedia.com/Asia> .
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I quite like commandments myself....and the entries for both World
Wars...and that the entry for 'Church of England' includes this: 'In the
late 1800s, there was a movement to disestablish the Church of England.
It failed, but it had the incidental effect of giving the English
language one of its longest words, "antidisestablishmentarianism." '
Retrieved from "http://www.conservapedia.com/Church_of_England" (Don't
ask how I got here...the journey to the Cof E reaped far more nuggets
than I have time and/or space to fill here!
Magic!
"Canning J." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Some good historical entries here.
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I was succeed by her cousin, James Earl of
Scotland(James I).
Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell is perhaps the person other than Jesus who declined
enormous
worldly power, in Cromwell's case by voluntarily refusing the
crown of
England.
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Any of the rest of you come across this extraordinarily useful
teaching
tool? Given the disputes about student use of Wikipedia this
couldn't
have come at a better time, although it is admittedly a work in
progress. No more 'grey areas' or subjectivity, just hard facts!
As an
example, here's the page on Ancient History...
Introduction to Ancient History
Ancient history, which is everything before about A.D. 600,
created or
discovered all the major religions today except Islam. Ancient
history
created civilization and achieved many of the greatest
intellectual
breakthroughs of all time. Literature, drama, mathematics,
philosophy,
language, etc., were all created in ancient history.
When did mankind first begin? There is no reliable evidence of
man
existing before 3500 B.C. The oldest writing is a pictographic
tablet
called a "cuneiform" dated to about 3400 B.C. from Sumer
(SOO-mur) in
Southern Mesopotamia (where Iraq is today). These cuneiforms
look like
chicken-scratches featuring wedge-like or arrow-shaped
characters. The
oldest western-style script is from the Indo-Aryan language, and
one
dated to 1550 B.C. was found in the Sinai. The oldest verified
civilization dates to about 3000 B.C. We can also extrapolate
backwards
from modern populations to estimate that only about 300 million
people
existed in the world at the time of Christ, and extrapolating
backwards
further yields only one family in the year 3300 B.C. Languages
can be
traced backwards to about 3000 B.C., and some experts
reconstruct a
point of origin in southeastern Europe near the Baltic, not far
from the
Ararat mountain range cited in the Bible in connection with
Noah. Old
trees never predate this time either; the oldest sequoias, which
never
die of old age, are only 4000 years old.
No "civilization" has been found that is older than about 3000
B.C. By
"civilization" we mean order and hierarchy in the way of life.
Some type
of political system or government is usually necessary to have a
civilization.
A structure similar to a city or town is necessary to bring
together
people, jobs, buildings or religious centers. Usually there are
different classes of people, such as rich and poor. Some
historians say
there must be an agricultural surplus also: enough food to feed
the
people so that some workers could spend time in jobs other than
farming.
In a nutshell, a civilization must have cities, skilled
(non-farming)
workers, social and government institutions, writing to maintain
records
such as property ownership, and advanced technology. Memorize
the oldest
dates for the ancient civilizations:
Mesopotamia (Mes-uh-puh-tay-mee-uh): 3500 - 500 B.C., when
conquered by
Persia Egypt: 3100 - 525 B.C., when conquered by the Hyksos
(HIK-sohs)
Indus
(IN-dus) Valley: beginning in 2900 B.C. China: beginning in 2200
B.C.
Mexican Olmec (AWL-mek): 1200 - 300 B.C., the earliest known
American
civilization Peru (South America): 900 B.C.
History books speculate at length about "prehistory", which
predates
writing. But there is no reliable evidence to support this
speculation,
and not worth spending time on. There is no reason to think that
man
existed for thousands of years without ever expressing himself
in
written form. But in case you are asked, historians describe the
period
of time known as "prehistory" as the "Stone Age." They divide
the Stone
Age into two time
periods: "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic". The Paleolithic Age is
older,
when man relied mostly on hunting and picking nuts and fruit to
supplement his diet. The Paleolithic Age was followed by the
Neolithic
Age, which consisted of the rise of agriculture. The "Neolithic
Revolution" means the "Agricultural Revolution," when farming
became
dominant. The dates of these ages are controversial, and
historians have
a bias for giving them older dates than proven by archaeology.
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