Central+Asia

Central Asia Assignments: Activity 1: History

4. On your wikispace page for Central Asia History, create a vertical timeline for ten events. Basically, you will need to paraphrase and summarize.
 * Persians, Herodotus, Scythians, Ostrogoths, Slavs, Avars, Huns, Han Dynasty, plague **.

Nomads - Are people that travel around from place to place without having one settled place where they live. BC - It stands for Before Christ, and it means the number of years before Jesus Christ. AD - It stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord", and it means the number of years since Jesus Christ. Persians - People that invaded West Asia, moving south from Central Asia at around 1200 BC. Herodtus - He was the first person we know of (probably really the first) who tried to (in his own words) find out what happened in the past. Scythians - Were a large group of loosely connected people who lived in Russia, and also further south around the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Ostrogoths - Are people who were originally Indo-European that migrated because of bad weather and settled along the north side of the Black Sea where they farmed and traded with the Romans and the Parthians. Slavs - Moved to Europe from West Asia around 2000 BC, settled north, crossed Carpathian Mountians where they made raids on Roman Greece and settled in Greece where they fought the Romans, some Slavs were captured by Charlemagne while others continued to live in Eastern Europe where they gradually divided into three groups with distinct languages. Avars - Avars lost to the Turks and fled to the grasslands of Russia, Roman Emperor Justinian found them and paid them for their services in military, eventually the kings fighting each other created a civil war and the Aavars were weakened so their enemies attacked, which led to their ultimate fall. Huns - Most likely came from western China, the Huns had many battles with enemies of their payers. Han Dynasty - Not much different from the system Ch'in set up, this allowed smart men (women were not allowed to be judges or goveners) who were well educated and whom he trusted to become judges and governers, it set up the first university that allowed smart men (again, no women) to go to the university. Because of this people now had to take a difficult test in order to become a judge, to see if they were smart enough. Plague - The plague is caused by a bacteria, getting inside people usually after being bitten from infected fleas. It was also caused the black death because when infected the tips of your fingers and toes and often the tip of your nose turn black. When you were infected, big black spots called buboes appeared on your armpits and behind your knees and on your neck.

1. 50,000 BC -> Nomads were traveling around Central Asia. 2. 3,000 BC -> Nomads figured out how to tame horses to help them with cattle, faster transportation, and to conquer other people. 3.