AKBAR THE GREAT

Akbar the Great 

I was born on october 15 1542 in Umarkot. A city from the district of Sindhi in now days Pakistan. When I was born, no one have good expectation of me. My father was Hamayun and my grandfather was Babur, the first emperor of the Mughal dinasty. Before I was born my father was impoverished and in exile by Sher Shah Suri. My first days were without a father. Even though my father didn't give up, he wanted power so he managed to regain it in 1555. Unfortunately he just ruled for a few months and then he died. I was 14 when he left me his little kingdom, even if it was a collection of frail fiefs I was too young to rule it. Nevertheless, I had no choice, so Bairim Khan took care of me and taught me all he could. With his help I conquered some territories of nothern India and I led my army against the Hindu King Hemu at the Second Battle of Panipat. When I came in age I fired Bairim Khan (that means that I oredered his execution when he was traveling to Mecca), so I could get full control of the government. With all the multiculturalism inside my head I decided to establish a new cult. In 1579 I was granted the power to interpret the religious law, so with that oportunity I established the Din-i-Ilahi (divine faith). This cult was a mix of elements of many religions: Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism. I was the center of this faith, I was the prophet called by God. Sadly this cult died with me in 1605, there were very few converts. I am dissapointed, because I believed in this faith, I converted from Islam to the Din.iIlahi, but no one followed me.
My father and my grandfather were poets and diarists. Very illustrated people, different from them I am not proud to say that I was iIlliterate. However, I appreciated the arts, culture, and intellectual discourse. I scattered my fascination to all the empire. I made some contributions to the Mughal style of architecture, it has some Islamic, Persian and Hindu elemnts. I was interested in education so I used to sponsore the greatest minds of my empire: poets, musicians, artists, philosophers, and engineers.
I had many courtiers, but my favorites and well-known were my navaratna or my nine gems which served and entertained me: Abul Fazl, my biographer, who chronicled my reign in the three-volume book "Akbarnama"; Abul Faizi, a poet and scholar as well as Abul Fazl's brother; Miyan Tansen, a singer and musician; Raja Birbal, the court jester; Raja Todar Mal, my minister of finance; Raja Man Singh, a celebrated lieutenant; Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, a poet; and Fagir Aziao-Din and Mullah Do Piaza, who were both my advisors.
(His death is uncertain there are two theories that he died because of an ill or he was poisoned... I am going to write about the poisoning).

I was a cunning general. My empire was so big that it occupied the territories of Afghanistan in the north, Sindh in the west, Bengal in the east, and the Godavari River in the south. The secret of the expansion of my empire was my ability to earn the loyalty of the conquered people. I created a central government with all my conquered territories. I integrated them to my administration. I rewarded talent, loyalty, and intellect, no matter the religion or ethnic origins. That helped me to gain people's respect. With this sytem my dynaty had stability.  

I promoted tolerance and cooperation between the Rajput people. I din't force the population to convert to Islam, instead I abolished the poll tax on non-Muslims, I traslated Hindu literature and I also participated in Hindu festivals. 

 I got married with many Hindu princesses, those marriages might not mean nothing, because I saw them as alliances. I married with Jodha Bai, the eldest daughter of the house of Jaipur, as well princesses of Bikaner and Jaisalmer. I made his fathers and brothers part of my court. 

I had a peculiar form of administration which made all the territories of my empire dependent to the central government. In 1574 I separated the revenue collection from military administration. The subahs which are the governators of each terrirtory mantained the order of its region. After a while I doled out fixed salaries to military and civilian personnel according to their rank.

I considered myself as religiously curious. I participated in many festivities of different religions. In 1575 I ordered the construction of a Persian style temple (ibadat-khana) in Fatehpur. There I hosted scholars from other religions. There went Hindus, Christians, Zoroastrians, Yogis, and Muslims. I also was pretty tolerant with the other religions. I was so tolerant that I allowed the Jesuits to construct a Church in Agra, and discouragedthe slaughter of cattle out of respect for Hindu custom. This was badseen for many people, so much that many called me heretic. I didn't care so I continued with the multiculturalism. I am not pretty sure why religions different from mine didn't bother me, I was just that way. 

Jahangir

My death is a sad chapter of my life. It was so tragic that is hard to me to tell you about it. My death wasn't a terrible accident, it wasn't a terrible ill either, it was something much awful than that. I was poisoned, the worst thing isn't the murder, it was the fact that my own son Jahangir did it. You can't imagine the pain you feel knowing that your own son wanted you dead. He did this for ambicion and greed, he wanted the whole empire for him. The sad thing is that he made it, a few days after my death in 1605, he ascended forcefully as emperor

Extra credit assigment 6: High Middle Ages Voacbulary

High Middle Ages Voacbulary

Celtic: scottish, Irish and Welsh.
English common law: where the decisions of royal courts became part of the law and a basis for future decisions.
Precedents: what came before.
Trial by jury: juicio por jurado. A group of people who decide if someone is guilty or not.
Veredict: decision
Guilty: that someone is responsible of the crime.
Not guilty: that someone is not responsible for the crime.
Unanimous: that everyone voted for the same thing.
Royal exchequer: a treasury that collected taxes, fees, and fine for money to run the government.
Cathredal: is were the bishop give the mass
Magna Carta: an agreement where the king John gives up to a part of his power.
Nobles: aristocracy
Charter: document that grants rights.
Rightl: legal, social, or ethical prinicples of freedom.
Absolute monarchy: when the king has all the power.
English parlament: a group of people who made some decisions with the king. Ruled with the king.
Clergy: the body of people ordained for religious service.
Parliment: in frecnh means talking.
Legislature: law.making body.
Bicameral: a legislature with 2 chambers (lords and commons).
Unicameral: A legislature with 1 chamber.
Decentralized: spead out among many smal units.
Centralized: the center mantained strong control.
Fragmented: broken up into small units.
Headquartered: a military centre were operations are directed. 
Great Schism: split
Lay investure: when the king decided who the bishops were going to be. 
Concordant of warms: an agreement that stablished  the church  is just authorized to select the bishops.
Holy see: the administration of the chatolic church.
Vulgate: the translation of the original bible (greek) into the latin one by St. Jerome. 
Vernacular languages: everyday languages.
Burned at the stick: burned a live tight on a stick.
Pilmigrates: journeys to holy or sacred places. 
Remisison of sins: Time off from pulgatory. 
Heathens and infidels: unbelievers and outsiders.
Holy war: when knights and devote christians set out for Jerusalem.
Mercenaries: soldiers for hire, who often fight for countries or armies other than their own.
French Foreign Legion: A mercenary squad.
Papacy: office of the pope.
Ideology: Values and beliefs.
Manoralism: feudalism
Hanseatic league: an alliance for merchants in city-states in (now) northern Germany nad the baltic sea region. 
Silk road: called like this because silk fabric from China was highly prized in Europe and transported by this route.
Moorish artistic style: Domes.
Epidemic: an ill that spreads all over the world.
Vermin: rats and fleas

Hygiene: cleanliness habits.
Disease vector: any way that a disease is spread (air, sexually,etc.)
Contagious. Transmissible by direct or indirect contact.
Pestilence: a fatal epidemic desease. Bubonic plague.
Labor: work/ a specific task.
Inflation: high prices.
Longbow: a powerful hand-drwn bow used in medieval england.
Cannon: a large mounted weapon that fires projectiles.
Seven liberal arts: arithmetics, geometric, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, and religion.
Theology: study of love and religion.
Scholasticism: phylosophy based in the classroom and the study of books.

Stained glass: glass colored by pigments. Located in churches.
Iluminated manuscripts: the beautiful books with colored art.
Infidels: Non believers of your religion. 

Extra Credit Assigment 7: Middle Ages: Dark Ages vocabulary

Middle Ages: Dark Ages vocabulary

Middle ages: medieval

Dark ages: called like this because we don't have much information about it.

Dominance: control

Treaty: agreement

Carolingian: era of Charlemagne

Feudalism: economic system of the Middle Ages based on land.

Vassals: a person who held land from a feudal lord.

Fiefs: the property granted  to a vassal

Sefs: ---------------

Knights: warriors of the middle ages.

Tournaments: athletic competitions.

Chilvary: the code of the knights.

Courty love: devotion to an unattunable lady.

Troubadors and minstrels: singing poets.

Moats: the water that surrounds a castle.

Drawbridge: a bridge that goes dowmn and up (of a castle)

Keeps: the toweres from the corners.

Seige: a long attack on a castle.

Beseiged: ----------

Excommunication: being thrown out from the church.

Interdict: to throw out an entire country from the church. 

Papacy: pope

Anti-popes: competing pretender popes.

Orthodoxy: approved beliefs by the church.

Heresy: unapproved beliefs by the church.

Heretics: people who comit heresy.

Sacrilege: disrespect at sacred subjects.

Blasphemy: verbal disrespect.

Monk: people devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order. Live in monasteries.

Monasteries: were monks lived.

Abbots: leaders of monasteries.

Nuns: women who live in convents. A woman who belong to a religious order devoted to active service.

Convents: were nuns lived.

Absseses: leaders of convents.

Monastic life: To have vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.

Beneedicitne rule: vows of poverty, obedience, chastity.

Religious orders: is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in the same way appart from society. 

Friars: traveling monks.

Cloisters. gardens in monasteries. In the middle is an open air space.

Chastity: sexual purity.

History readings

History readings

Over the past years there have been many interesting discoveries, such as the head of Afrodite, an ancient 
Roman mosaic, the Trajan's Rampart, 159 pristine Roman Gold coins, the remains of the fort massacre on Öland, Viking silver, and the fact that Cclimate change caused angry runts.

Head of Afrodite:

The head of Afrodite was found in Antiochia ad Cragum on the southern coast of Turkey. Antiochia was established at the time of Emperor Nero in the first century. Arqueologist were excavating the part where ancient Roman mosaic, found last year, was. It is a piece of a moumental sculpture. 

the important thing of the discovery is that changed the way of see history. How? Before this head was found, historians believed that Antiochia was to insular to be heavily impacted by Rome, but now this head proved that this region was part of the overall Greek and Roman traditions. 
There have been more statutes, but centuries ago Christians burned them, because they were considered pagan iconography. 

Arqueologist continoued to excavate the western area were they had found the head and they found the other half of the ancient Roman mosaic of a pool. This mosaic is from the late second or early third century. Although this was not everything, because arqueologist found another mosaic. Thanks to those discoveries arqueologist began to believe that there was a temple, but it is unsure. 

Trajan's Rampart:

It ran 60 km. from Dnube to the Black Sea. It would measured 3.8m tall and 8m thick.
It served to protect the Empire from invasions. It was built in 3 different dates.

what I liked from this discovery is how it was discovered. Some military planes took photos from the air. It was discovered during a military surveillance. What I dont finish to understand is how the country led the goverment who took the photos, publish them, or why this photos didn't cause any conflcit between the countries. I don't like much the idea of an external country spying what I have in my land or what I am doing. 

159 pristine Roman gold coins

Near St. Alban a youth car salesman decided to go on a treasure hunt. With a metal detector for beginners he first found 40 Roman gold coins. He contacted the local Portabke Antiquities Scheme Finds Laison Officer. In October some local officials, the finder and the store guy went to where he had found the coins and began to search. They found 119 coins. The coins were stuck in Milan. They had the five Emperors' faces (Gratian, Valentinian, Theodosius, Arcadius and Honorius). The surprising thing is that they where in excellent coditions, just as the day they were made.

This discovery is important, because it is one of the largest collections of solidi ever found.  
This kind of findings seem funny to me, because I don't believe in the treasure hunts, so for me is something almost incredible to happen. 

Remains of 5th century fort massacre 

On Öland, during an excavation, arqueologists have found five skeletons felled by violence. They were found in a single house inside the courtyard of a fort.
This is how historians believe this people died: There was a walled city in Scandinavia during the migration period, which was full of violence. The people from the city had their houses and had a meat-based diet, so they ate well. But one day some mean people entered to the city, the walls and the dfenders failed. Those people killed everyone. This masacre was so awful that the death bodies had faces full of suffering and pain. 
The site after its destruction wasn't plundered and also the killers didn't take the riches with them. This was unusual. 

Viking silver:

David Taylor found a viking ring in Inishargy, while he was helping his brother to remove stones from his newly plowed field. He saw the object and it semed valuable to him, so he sent some pictures of it to the local museum experts. They said it was a viking arm ring. Is thought that monastereries were raided by Vikings in the 9th century, so the Vikins settled in Ireland. The religious sites were used to keep valuable items; the arm ring was found near a medieval church, so that is the reason why it was near a church. 

Climate change caused angry runts:

Now historinas say that "any natural or social factor that causes resource depletion may lead to general crisis". 

This conslusion seem to me very logical, because if we run out of food, people will be hungry and if we continue to do not have food people will starve. There are many things that cause the depletion of resources, an example coudl be the climate changes. Climate changes cause that many plants stop to grow, because the climate where they were used to flourish do not exist anymore. 


It is so funnny how people find valuable and historically important things. Many of them find them in a treasure hunt, others find things by accident, or other people find somethig that is valuable, but they never know it. 

AGORA

 AGORA

Agora is a movie about the fall of the Roman Empire and about Hypatia. 

The movie took place in Alejandria, Egypt. It is the epoch when the Roman Empire was starting to convert into the Cristianism. 
What I remember from the movie is that the Cristians, the egiptians and the Jewsh were in conflict because of religious reasons. Cristians were spreading over Alejandria, but the egiptians didn't want them there. Egiptians and Cristians fought for being the dominant religion. 
One day the Cristians were in the temples of the Egiptian's gods. They were mocking at them. They were also trhowing them food and laughing because they didn't answered their questions. The egiptians were upset, because of the cristians' insults, so they decides to attack them. Hypatia was not agree with that attack, but her father approved it. So many students and workers of the library took their weapons and ran to the temple where the cristians were. There they surrounded them and then they attacked. A lot of people and crsistias died that day, but after a while more cristians arrived and they were winning, so the egiptians had to run into the library to be safe. There the egiptians closed the huge doors of the library and waited until the cristians went calm. The egiptians lasted a few days locked i the library until the emperor sent a message that said that teh egiptians must share the library with the cristians and that they must open the doors of the library in that moment. All the philosophers were atonish, the cristians were going to destroy everything, so they tried to save all the could. Hypatia was one of the most concerned. She had a slave named Davos,he was in love with her. Hypatia treated him bad so he became upset. when all the egiptians were leaving the library Davos returned and helped the cristians to destroy it. 

After a few years Davos become a cristian soldier and Osteres (an old student of Hypatia, he also loved her, but she rejected him) became a kind of governator of Alejandria. Hypatia lived with Osteres, there she had her little library and her own place where she can study and investigate about the planet movements. After the confrontation between egiptians and cristians the Roman Empire devided in two. The religious conflicts continued, but now cristians were atacking jews. The Jews complained with Osteres, but he didn't do anything. Cristinas attacked other religions and they were intolerant. The Jewish stoned them in revenge and a lot of cristinas died. Beacause of that incident cristiasn started to press Osteres to convert all  Alejandria into cristianism. 

Osteres loved Hypatia so the bishop of that epoch accussed her of whitchcraft,he had to kneel so the cristians will not fight anymore, but he did not kneel, so the cristians were mad and one of them threw him a stone into the head, so he was killed by the soldiers. After that Osteres warned Hypatia, so she can be safe, but Hypatia didn't want to loose her beliefs, so she went out to the street where the cristians were waiting for her. she was captured, Davos ran to the temple where she was. There she was naked, he felt so bad for her that he killed her before the cristians stoned her. 
That's the end of the movie. 

I liked the movie a lot, beacuse it was a combination of action and love. I also liked the cruelty showed. I was atonished when Cyrilo (the bishop) read some passages from the Bible that said that women is nothing and that they should stay quiet without thiking. I disagree with him in all the aspects. He considered Hypathia an obstacle so that is why he accused her of witchcraft and then the parabolans killed her. Cristians were not that merciful as they said. If I had lived in that time I would have followed Hypatia's posture of do not have any religion. All the religions at that time were cruel. The has a little about how exaclty the Roman Empire fell. 

Extra credit assigment 5: MAPS

PREHISTORY

ANCIENT EGYPT

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

Fertile crescent

Sumeria

Akkadian Empire

First Babylonian Empire

Hittite Empire

Assyrian Empire

Second Babylonian Empire

Persian Empire

Phonecian Empire

JUDAISM

Ancient Israel

  Modern Iraq (was anceint Sumer)

 All the content here is not of my property, all the images including the concept map are from internet. 

Extra credit assigment 4: JUDAISM

JUDAISM: VOCABULARY

Torah: the first 5 books of the Bible. Jewsh. (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers).
Pentateuch: the first 5 books of the Bible. Christians.  (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers).

Famine: a shortage of food. No food.
Shortage: not enough.
Promised land: Israel.
Crop failure: crops: plants grown for food. Crops do not grow.
Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Western monotheisms: Judaism, Christinaity, and Islam. Religions of one god.
Diaspora: people separated from their homeland.
Network: jewish connected all over the world by letters.
Economic niches: a small space in something. A purpose. 
Anti-semitsm: being against jewsh.
Monotheism: to believe in one god.
Chosen people: the one that was picked for something.
Covenant: agreement.
Prophets: people visited by god, who communicated with him.
Patriarcah: Father. Men were in charge.
Ethics: moral standars of behavior.
Disproportionate: more than could be expected. Disbalanced.

Extra credit assigment 3: ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST: VOCABULARY

Fertile crescent: is the area of good growing land between Persian Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean.
Mesopotamia: land between rivers (Tigris and Euphrates).
Sumer: an area in lower Mesopotamia. The modern nation of Iraq.

Babylon: the central city of the Babylonian empire.
Overlap: to share the same space or time.
Ziggurats: a pyramid-shcaped temple
Cuneiform: wedge-shaped marks in clay. A way of writing with straight lines.
Oral tradition:
Empire: large political unit combining states, cities, and territories.
Code of Hammurabi: set of laws created by the babylonian king Hammurabi.
Criminal law: contains the crimes sanctions.
Civil law: personal and finantial issues.
Business contratcs: are agreements between two-more parties that involve doing and getting something.
Taxes: money collected by the state to run the goverment with.
Performance: doing something.
Consideration: getting something.
Obligation: something you must/have to do.
Breach of contract: broke the contract.
Metal ore: rock with metallic content.
Smelting: to extract gold, metal, from rocks.
Alloys: combinations.
Durable: strong.
Neo: new.
Satrap: the governators of the provinces of the Persian empire.
Coinage: process of making coins.
Numismatics: the study of coins and their relationship to history and art.
Sea traders: people who commercialize by sea.
Colonies: a distant place that a state controles.
Model of influence: that is admired so it can modify things.
Alphabet: a way of writing based on the sound.
Innovations: new ideas.

Extra credit assigment 2: ANCIENT EGYPT

ANCIENT EGYPT: VOCABULARY

Silt: to fill, cover or obstruct./ A material made of sand and clay.

Upper Nile: the farthest part of the Nile to the ocean.

Lower Nile: the nearest part of the Nile to the ocean. 

Pharaoh: the egiptian ruler consider a living god. 

Delta: a fertile triangle-shaped area.

Polytheistic: when you believe in many gods

Deity: god.

Vizier: a chief minister.

After life: life after death.

Mummification: to amke into a mummy by embalming and drying the body.

Looted: stolen.

Grave-robbers: people who steal the treasures from tombs.

Monuments: structures meant to serve as physical reminders of famous people and events. Memorials.

Memorials: objects that help us remember. 

Embalming: the temporary preservation of the body for funeral ceremonies. 

Wakes: showing teh body in its casket.

Morticians: funeral director. People who supervices or conduct the preparation of the dead.

Egyptologist: an arqueologist that specializes in Egiptology.

Monotheistic: to believe in one god.

Patron: a person who pays to scholars, artis, musicians, etc, so they can continue their important work. 

Archive: a library of historical materials. 

Asia Minor: It's between the black sea and the Mediterranean.

Decline: loose strenght, power, importance.

Hieroglyphics: an egyptian form of writing. Pictures and symbols used to represent objects and ideas.

Papyrus: a plant that grew a long the river, used to make paper.

Scrolls: a roll. An acient book written on such a roll.

Demotic: a way of writing, but it was simpler that hieroglyphics. 

Caligraphy: the art of writing.

Decipher: to decode. To read or interpret. 

Extra credit assigment 1: PREHISTORY

Prehistory: vocabulary

Glaciers: thik sheets of ice. Huge pieces of ice.
Hunters: people who kill animals in order to eat them.
Gathering: to pick any eatable thing.
Nomadism: To move from one place to another.
Tribes: samall groups of people.
Gender roles: the things that a person must do refering to his gender. Women did the gathering and men did the hunting and fishing.
Technology: branch of knowledge, new process, new tools that for a new way of getting things done.
Animism: to believe in spirits and forces.
Polytheism: to believe in many gods.
Monotheism: to believe in one god.
Cultures: separate human groups with their own behaviors and practices.
Sedentarism: to settle (stay) in a place.
Civilization: orginized semi-permanent human societies.
River valleys: A large are of land irrigated by a river.
Delta: a fertile triangle shaped area.
Irrigation: to move water to where you need it, creating canals.
Canal: an artificial waterway.
Navigability: the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship.
Specialization: to become specialized. To focus in some thing.
Artisan: a skilled manual worker.
Exchange of value: when you have something you can exchange.
Economy: the managment of resources.
Surplus: more quantity of what is needed.
Barter economy: Direct trade.
Money economy: the use of money to exchange things.
Status: is a state, condition or situation.
Social class: Are the levels in society.
Hierarchy: System with levels.
Social mobility: to move from one socail class to another.
City-states: An independent entity whose territory consist of a city which isn't administrated as a part of another local goverment.
Public works: architecture, bridge, canals, etc.
Legal systems: laws.
Hederitary ruler: A leader that becomes a leader, because of inheritance (his father was already a leader).
Inevitable: unavoidable.
In-breeding: people who marry and have kids with close relatives. A brother and a sister, between cousins,
etc.
Slave: a person who work for another, beacuse he belongs to someone.
International trade: I want something you have, you have something I want; let's exchange(is between nations).
Empire: The territory as a unit. Extense one. Has territories and nations ruled by the same person.
Administration: The management of a goverment.
Cultural diffusion: the spread of new ideas.
Pictograms: drawings that represent words.
Ideograms: symbols that represent an idea, word.
Phonograms: The alphabet. Letters that represent sounds.
Alphabet: set of letters.
Scribes: a public secretary.
Manuscript: a book, document written by hand.

The Sumeria civilization

The Sumeria civilization was the first of all. It started in Juncos, Iraq. They settled the bases for the mesopotamian civilization in the age of 3500 B.C.   

The people lived in Madifs (they were made of juncos). They invented an irrigation and agricultural system. This caused the growth of the alimentary resources. They used to sow in furrows, so that's why they suceded in agriculture. Their main crop was the wheat. They made bread, gachas and also a drink. In 3000 B.C. They invented almost 30 different types of bear. For 1500 years , sumerian dynasties lived in prosperty until the third of them (2000 BC).

Uruk was another city of Sumer. The sumerians venerated the agriculture god in the Zigurat, they had more gods.

In 3000 BC, the metroplois started to appear. The Sumerians had a sewer system.

With the development of the irrigation and agricultural system became the need of an administration. Then the people wuth authority became leaders or "Legals" (means head of the state).

 

Its architecture had a lot of arches. Sumerians also invented the writing symbols, thanks to the need of register their economical activities. They satrted writing numers. They inclinated the symbols 90°, because was easier to write. The anciest sumerian pictograms are from the 3100 BC.

The Silver Pharoah Mystery

The Silver Pharoah Mystery

 
The Egypt history has a dark age. This age is called the intermidiate period (1069-525 B.C.) During this period Egypt passed trhough economic downturns, civil war, and a country spid between North and South .
Before this age, the ruler of Egypt was Ramses II, the most famous pharaoh in all the Egyptian history. Cleopatra ruled after the dark age. Egypt has had around 170 pharaohs.
 
Psusennes was the pharaoh at the intermidiate period. He ruled Egypt from 1097-1001 B.C.
 
Psusennes was discovered by the professor Pierre Monter in the 30's. He discovered a vast temple in Tanis. This temple was dedicated to Amun. The temple was walled. When Monter was exploring the temple he fell down in a chamber, a royal tomb (from 850 B.C.). There Monter noticed that the chamber where he fell, was already opened, but he didn't give up, he digged farther from the first chamber, surprisely he found another chamber. This one was intact and it had a sarcophagus.
Inside the sarcophagus was Psusennes. Its casket was forge in silver. Something very rare between pharaohs, because they usually forge their caskets with gold; however, inside the casket, the death mask of Psusennes was solid gold.
Because of the World War II, the excavation was closed. Hitler was going to invade Egypt.
 

Psusennes was a strong, healthy, and powerful man. He had a short body (his height was 1.66m), he was a little bit fat in my opinión. He succeeded as a leader, because he had a strong body and he was long lived. He ruled for 46 years (the longest period of reign in Egypt).
Psusennes was a pharaoh and a high priest. High priests were important and wealthy people. They run businnes, they were political leaders and they also could control military forces. There was a time when high priests had almost the same power than the pharaoh. Psusennes became wealthy and powerful by using his family conncetions (his father and brothers were high priests), making political marrying, and alliances.
His most impressive contribution was that he rescued an old capital city, Pyramses. Pyramses was where the pharaoh Rameses II ruled. Psusennes ordered to bring all the monuments from Pyramses to the place he ruled, Tanis.  
 
He died very old, at the age of 80. He had a disease in his back, he also lost a lot of teeth. A theory of why does Psussennes decided to use silver instead of gold in his casket is:  "that silver wouldn't be cheaper, it was not as expensive as gold, but the amount of work in the craft involved was considerable" (Jon Privett).The casket was 19 kilograms of pure silver.  
 
 
 

Studies Related To History

Studies Related To History

Which of the related studies will I find the most interesting?

History is the science that studies the human past. But it also have studies that are related, such as geography, cartography, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, demographics, political science, linguistics, and archaeology. The most interesting studies for me are psychology and anthropology. I like psychology, because I am impressed of the power of the human mind. I think it is very interesting and I want to know why some people act how they act. An example a murderer, why he killed someone? What was he thinking and feeling when he killed the person? Another example can be the mentally ill, what causes their illness? I find all those questions very interesting. Actually I am serously thinking to study somenthing related to psychology. Now about anthropology, I find it interesting just because I like history in general, and the anthropology studies the origin and development of the cultures. I also want to know how they lived, how some cultures did what they did (the pyramids, Stonehage). 
 

Types of History

Types of History

Which type of history do I will find the most interesting...

History is a very extensive topic. There are different types of history: the political and military history, the social and cultural history, and the specialized histories. The one that I think I will find more interesting is the social and cultural history. Why? I love stories, I enjoy them a lot. I like when the teachers tell us about their expirences and adventures. When a history teacher tell me about someone's testimony I love to listen to him/her. I am interested in the way of living of the people of the past centhuries, in the way of think of those persons and in how they felt. The stories that I like the most are the ones of tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, wars, etc, what I like of those stories is that people helped each other in those situations. One of my favorite stories is the earthquake of the 85 that occurred in Mexico. I liked that story, because the people made all the rescues, they didn´t wait for the goverment's help, mexicans were helping each other. 

Going back of why I will find more interesting the social and cultural history, I will find it more interesting, because social history studies the experiences of people. The only part that I do not really like is that this type of history uses a lot of statistics and records of births and deaths and all that kind of stuff. I consider that as boring. 

World History Reaction Blog

World History Reaction Blog

Something about me...  

My name is Julia ........... This is my first blog ever, I am doing this blog because its part of my grade in my history class, but that doesn't mean that I don't enjoy writing things in my blog. I like to write, I think is a really good way to express what you think and feel. When you write people won't judge you, because you aren't face to face. It's a more comfortable way for me to express my opinion. It feels very exciting when you are writing and suddenly a stroke of inspiration arrives to you. Well I have written a lot about my liking to writing, so I will start now to introduce myself. first of all the mainly information: ....................... I am mostly intersted in science, I love scince (specially physics), I also like anime (the japanese cartoons), doramas (korean dramas), the black novel (the one that is about murders), movies (comedy, thriller, action), and the theater (I enjoy a lot the musicals). My favorite food is the lasgna, I also love the pasta, pizza, and baguette (just the natural bread). I like to read, but I don't do it frequently, maybe because the book that I'm reading is not that interesting. My favorite book is Septimus, it's about a magician. I read it in 4 days, it has about 450 pages. Another gthig that I enjoy to do is to draw, but one thing that I don't like of my drawing is that I am pretty bad doing personal creations, but I copy very good (I watch an image that I liked and I start to draw it). Now talking about music, I like and enjoy music, but I'm not very musical. I use to listen to music occasionally. My favorite gender is the spanish/mexican rock and the romantic ballads. I do like music in english, I like Bon Jovi, Guns'n roses (a little), The beatles, etc; but I prefer the music in my language, because that is how I will truly understand the message of what I am listening to. To finish all the speech about me I want to say that I am still working in me, because I haven't finished to know me.