Monday, March 3, 2014

Recent learning

History
The history I have recently learned goes through time.

Ancient
Egyptian kingdom. They had pyramids and they turned rich dead people into mummies. Egypt was around the Nile

Greek states. Two were the Spartans and the Athenians. The Spartans fought and the Athenians thought. The Greeks were good at math.

Roman empire. They took over most of the place called Europe. The wise and powerful were very rich. They were strong the Romans were. But the barbarians took them over.

Viking
The Vikings were people from a land called Scandinavia, The name given to these four countries Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland. The vikings were poor but when they made ships called long ships and raided Europe with axes and swords they got rich. The vikings actually did not wear horned helmets. The viking time ended when the kings of France and England made strong armies and big ships.

Medieval
The medieval era had many castles and knights. There were many wars in the Medieval era. They had a system called Feudalism. The king was the most powerful and the peasants and the poor were the weakest.The medieval time ended when cannons and guns were invented.

Renaissance
This is when many thinkers inventors and artists in the Renaissance. Italy a country shaped like a boot, had many great renaissance men in it. Leonardo da vinci and Galileo Galilei were two of them.

Industrial
This is when so many new inventions were being made. They used steam and coal. The car, telephone,train and the light-bulb ( which was invented by Joseph swan ) were some inventions.

Science
I learned about animals and making them in groups. I learned about the Domain and the kingdom. The Domain has three groups. Eukarya, Archea and bacteria. Then Kingdom has six groups. Animals, Plants, Fungi, Bacteria, Protists, Archea.

Geography
There are 7 continents they are: North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and Antarctica.