Well hello and welcome to another post from yours truly...ok well for school i have to write out sentences about my history lesson so pretty much history in a nutshell so if u need to be able to get the basic outline of a history lesson....scroll through mine and see if they are helpful!
1. In the year 29 A.D., the followers of Christ were given the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.
2. Saul persecuted Christians, but after becoming a Christian himself his name was changed from Saul to Paul.
3. The church at Antioch commissioned Paul to make three missionaries journeys.
4. Nero, the Caesar of the entire Roman Empire, watched Rome burn while playing his lyre and then blamed the Christians for it.
5. The Christians of the early church, like Blandina and Polycarp, were martyred for their faith.
6. Josephus wrote about Jewish history and warned the Jews about how strong the Romans were.
7. Masada was the place where there was a mass suicide of over 900 Jews who didn’t want to be taken captive by the Romans.
8. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Scriptures preserved by the Essenes at Qumran, proved to modern scholars that the Bible has not changed.
9. On August 24, A.D. 79, Pompeii was hit by the volcano in Mt. Vesuvius and it was buried in ashes.
10. Bar-Kokhba, a legendary hero, led the Jews during the Second Jewish Revolt, and called himself the prince of Israel.
11. The Apostles Creed was written by early Christians to teach others and to confirm what they believed.
12. St. Valentine was a Christian martyr whose death was blended with a pagan festival of love.
13. Diocletian divided the Roman Empire, he persecuted Christians, and wanted to be worshipped.
14. Under the rule of Constantine, the Edict of Milan was signed in 313 which made it legal to be a Christian. Constantine brought together church leaders who established the Nicene Creed, which stated that Jesus And God were the same
15. The Golden Age of India was a time when there was great wealth and there were a lot of advancements in areas like fabric, astronomy, mathematics and sciences.
16. Although they vanished for no apparent reason, the Mayans lived in Central America, and were a very civilized people.
17. St. Augustine, whose mother Monica prayed for his salvation, wrote many books that theologians still are studying.
18. In a cave-like place, Jerome took 23 years to translate the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate.
19. St. Patrick, who used the 3 leaf clover to explain the Trinity, was a missionary to Ireland and helped convert it from a pagan country.
20. Attila the Hun was called the “scourge of God” because he led an army of fierce barbarians.
21. Due to inflation and the invasion of barbarians, the Western Roman Empire fell in 476, and ushered in the Dark Ages.
22. In spite of living in small houses that also served as stables, work conditions that were very harsh and long, and healthcare that was quite primitive, the peasant people of the Dark Ages found hope and spiritual comfort in the church.
23. Although his wife Guinevere betrayed him for his friend Lancelot, King Arthur the Legend was a noble man, but we don’t know if he was real.
24. Justinian I and Theodora, who both came from poor beginnings but were very smart, ruled the Byzantine Empire and came up with the Justinian Code of laws which is still used to this day
25. It was 563 when Columba sailed to Scotland as a missionary to the Picts, which were very fierce, and eventually the whole tribe was converted to Christianity.
26. Shinto is the patriotic belief system that Japan alone is sacred, but Shotoku also introduced Buddhism which is still widely practiced today in Japan.
27. Gregory the Great was a pope who was a sympathetic man who lived quite simply and truly cared for the people by giving to the poor and evangelizing the lost.
28. Yang Chien and Yang Do, notable rulers of the Sui dynasty, united southern and northern China and built the Grand Canal. T’ai Tsung, from the Tang dynasty, followed Confucianism, lived like the common people, and he ruled justly and fairly!
29. Islam was begun in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 622 by Mohammad, who claimed he had received messages from the angel Gabriel. Mohammad fled to Medina and eventually started a holy war (jihad) against Mecca, but the people submitted.
30. In spite of disagreement over who should lead the religion, Islam spread quickly to many neighboring countries, though there are still divisions within the religion.
31. Wu-Zettian, a concubine to the Chinese Emperor Tai’ Tsung, framed his wife to make it look like she killed her Daughter, and became the first Empress of China.
32. The story of Beowulf, composed in the early 700s about an Anglo-Saxon who slew Grendel and a great dragon, gives credibility to the idea that there were dragons in the Middle Ages.
33. As the last royal survivor of the Umayyad dynasty, Abd al-Rahman escaped from Damascus to re-establish his dynasty in southern Spain, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims lived harmoniously.
34. St. Boniface was a missionary to Germany who was known for chopping down the tree that pagans worshipped.
35. The Iconoclast controversy was the disagreement within the Christian Church over worshipping of idols.
36. Charles Martel (Hammer) was the man who stopped the spread of Islam into greater Europe by defeating the Muslims (severely) at the Battle of Tours in 732.
37. Charlemagne, king of the Franks from 768-814, was a big promoter of education, a good politician, was nicknamed “the civilizer” for the justice system he developed, fought the Spanish Muslims, was brutal in battle, and was crowned emperor of Rome by the Pope.
38. The stories of “The Arabian Nights”, “Aladdin”, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, and “Sinbad the Sailor”, originated from the reign of Harun al-Rashid who was a ruler in the Abbasid dynasty from Baghdad around 790 A.D..
39. The invasions of the Vikings from Scandinavia began in the late 700s. The Vikings ended up settling in Russia, England, France, and Spain.
40. Even though the Vikings are made out to be cruel, they were just like anyone else. They made stuff out of bone and leather, lived in long houses, played games, drank lots and lots of beer, and they also had their own gods and traditions.
41. Methodius and Cyril created a written language and taught it to the Slavs so that the people could read the Bible in their own language.
42. Alfred the Great, King of England in the late 800s, created laws that were based on the Ten Commandments, gave legal protection to the poor, helped restore the educational system, and established the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (a running account of current events in England).
43. Iceland, “Land of Fire and Ice”, was discovered by the Vikings in spite of extreme cold and volcanic activity.
44. The Maori, who came to New Zealand sometime between 900 and 1300, are known for tattooing their faces with cool designs, their ceremonial outfit and dance, and for intimidating their enemies by bulging their eyes and sticking out their tongues real far.
45. Zimbabwe, which means “Houses of Stone”, was named that because they had to make their houses without the use of any mortar which made it so much harder!
46. Good King Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, and a strong Christian thanks to his Grandparents who had been ministered to by Methodius and Cyril, was kind and generous, helped the poor, built shelters for the homeless, gave clothes to the needy, and bought slaves their freedom.
47. OTTO I was declared the “ Emperor of the Holy roman Empire” in 962 AD by the Pope.
48. Vladimir helped shape religion of Russia by establishing churches across the country, and sometimes forcing people into Christianity.
well thats what i have done so far and hopefully there will be more!
peace!
