{"id":2387,"date":"2020-03-11T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyed.site\/?page_id=2387"},"modified":"2024-06-13T01:17:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:17:51","slug":"session-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Civilization Session 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Barbarians Versus Civilization<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Barbarians on Offense<\/h2>\n<p>Under Construction<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"one-half first\">\n<p>[Video Introduction of Session]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4908\" src=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Visigoths Sack Rome\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890-575x1024.jpg 575w, https:\/\/historyed.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/historyed.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890-768x1368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/historyed.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Sack_of_Rome_by_the_Visigoths_on_24_August_410_by_JN_Sylvestre_1890.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"one-half\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Outline<\/h4>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\" https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/\/\">Course<\/a> Big Civilization<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Session 2\u00a0Topics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/1-egypt-and-mesopotamia\/\">Topic 1<\/a> Egypt and Mesopotamia<br \/>\n<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/2-early-greece\/\">Topic 2<\/a> Early Greece<br \/>\n<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/3-romes-fall\/\">Topic 3<\/a> Rome&#8217;s Fall<br \/>\n<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/4-chinas-wall\/\">Topic 4<\/a> China&#8217;s Wall<br \/>\n<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/5-mongols\/\">Topic 5<\/a> The Mongols<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Other Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-1\/\">One<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-2\/\">Two<\/a>| ||<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-3\/\">Three<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-4\/\">Four<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-5\/\">Five<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-6\/\">Six<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-7\/\">Seven<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-8\/\">Eight<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-9\/\">Nine<\/a>| |<a href=\"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/courses\/big\/civilization\/session-10\/\">Ten<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Headlines<\/h1>\n<table>\n<thead><\/thead>\n<thead style=\"background-color: blue; color: white;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\">YEAR BC<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">EVENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\">8000<\/td>\n<td>Mesopotamia: Agriculture Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">7000<\/td>\n<td>Palestine: Jericho Grows Into Town<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">6000<\/td>\n<td>Ice Age: Melting Stops<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">3600<\/td>\n<td>Egypt: Earliest Settlers Arrive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">3100<\/td>\n<td>Egypt: First Pharaoh Unites the Land<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">2700<\/td>\n<td>Egypt: Writing First Developed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">2560<\/td>\n<td>Giza: Great Pyramid Built<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">2100<\/td>\n<td>Fertile Crescent: Abraham Lived<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">2070<\/td>\n<td>China: First (Xia) Dynasty Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">2000<\/td>\n<td>Crete: Complex Cities Developed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1800<\/td>\n<td>Babylon: Village Becomes City<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1590<\/td>\n<td>Egypt: Joseph Made Overseer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1400<\/td>\n<td>Greece: Early Towns<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1100<\/td>\n<td>Greece: Dorians Invade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1100<\/td>\n<td>Middle East: Bronze Age Collapse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">800<\/td>\n<td>Middle East: Civilization Revives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">753<\/td>\n<td>Rome: Official Date of Founding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">509<\/td>\n<td>Rome: Republic Begins<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">107<\/td>\n<td>Rome: Era of Dictators Begin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">27<\/td>\n<td>Rome: Augustus Caesar Establishes Empire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot style=\"background-color: blue; color: white;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">YEAR AD<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">EVENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\">378<\/td>\n<td>Adrianole: Visigoths Defeat Romans<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">410<\/td>\n<td>Rome: City Sacked<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">451<\/td>\n<td>Chalons: Huns Turned Back<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">476<\/td>\n<td>Ravenna: Last Roman Emperor Abdicates<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">900<\/td>\n<td>Scandinavia: Vikings Attack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1206<\/td>\n<td>Mongolia: Ghenghis Khan Unites Tribes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"11%\">1271<\/td>\n<td>China: Kublai Khan Conquers China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot style=\"background-color: blue; color: white;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"20%\">YEAR AD<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">EVENTS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Concepts<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Conflicts seemed to be a normal condition in human life.<\/li>\n<li>People living in a civilization became wealthier. This enabled them to have leisure time.<\/li>\n<li>This created disparity with neighbors without civilization. In short \u201chaves versus have nots\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Barbarian invasions were caused in part by \u201chaves not\u201d wanting things and lands of \u201cthe haves\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">More Information<\/h1>\n<h2>From the History Moments Library<\/h2>\n<table style=\"width=100%; background-color: gold;\">\n<thead style=\"background-color: blue; color: white;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"17%\">YEAR BC<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">TITLE<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">AUTHOR(s)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody style=\"link-color: blue;\">\n<tr>\n<td>c 5900<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/historyweblog.com\/2012\/01\/dawn-of-civilization\/\">The Dawn of Civilization<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gaston_Maspero\">Gaston Maspero<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3800<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/historyweblog.com\/2010\/11\/archeological-excavation-of-crete\/\">Archeological Excavation of Crete<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_James_Banks\">Dr. Edgar J. Banks<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3800<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/historyweblog.com\/2010\/11\/the-origin-of-greek-alphabet-discovered\/\">The Origin of Greek Alphabet Discovered<\/a><\/td>\n<td>James Baikie| |<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_George_Hogarth\">David G. Hogarth<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1200<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/historyweblog.com\/2012\/04\/lb1\/\">How the Indian Caste System Began<\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustave_Le_Bon\">Gustave Le Bon<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot style=\"background-color: blue; color: white;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"17%\">YEAR BC<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">TITLE<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\">AUTHOR(s)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">From Elsewhere<\/h2>\n<h3>Reads<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_writing\">History of Writing<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cradle_of_civilization\">Cradles of Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Videos<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S1p12zj_wjs?si=6L2AvGq6sB1SAnZN\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fWEuz6rrfcY?si=lWOgh0BQktuOd5W3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyssSY93PZI?si=-C2bDE7hL4Zcz4PT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbarians Versus Civilization Barbarians on Offense Under Construction [Video Introduction of Session] Outline Course Big Civilization Session 2\u00a0Topics Topic 1 Egypt and Mesopotamia Topic 2 Early Greece Topic 3 Rome&#8217;s Fall Topic 4 China&#8217;s Wall Topic 5 The Mongols Other Sessions One| |Two| ||Three| |Four| |Five| |Six| |Seven| |Eight| |Nine| |Ten Headlines YEAR BC EVENTS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1207,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2387","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5439,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2387\/revisions\/5439"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyed.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}