First Year English - Sam

10. Suetonius's Description of the Water Projects Undertaken by Emperor Claudius SUMMARY Emperor Claudius had great ideas and did a lot of of public work such as starting and building with an aqueduct that is today also known as the Aqua Claudia, also named "The Claudian water". Then there was a drainage channel of Lake Fucine with the harbor at Ostia. It took time but it was worth it for his city. With all the stones from the Claudian aqueduct, he build many ornamented fountains. He also finished constructing a drainage canal that was three miles in length that also goes through a tunnel in a mountain. His good and proud work was recognized but there were a lot of difficulties throughout all these eleven years. 300,000 men were involved and they all worked as a team without any interruptions. 11. Activities of Shao Xinchen, Han Dynasty, before 33 B.C.E SUMMARY Xinchen, full name also known as Shao Hsin-che'n (Xinchen) Han was a grand administrator of Nanyang. H...

Chapter 2 First Civilizations "As historians commonly use the term, " civilization " represents a new and particular type of human society, made the possible by the immense productivity of the of the Agricultural Revolution ." pg. 60 SOMETHING NEW: The Emergence of Civilization "In the long run of human history, these civilizations - small breakthroughs to a new way of life - gradually absorbed, overran, or displaced people practicing other ways of living " pg. 60 "The earliest of these civilizations emerged around 3500 B.C.E. to 3000 B.C.E. in three places. One was the "cradle" of Middle Eastern civilization, expressed in the many and competing city-states of Sumer in southern Mesopotamia." pg. 60 "Recently investigated by scholars was a third early civilization that was developing along the central coast of Peru from roughly 3000 B.C.E to 1800 B.C.E." pg. 61 "Archeologists have, however, f...

Chapter 1 Read, take notes and write a reflection; First people; First Farmers - Most of History in a Single Chapter "Human being successfully adapted to a wide variety of environment without benefit of deliberate farming or animal husbandry . Instead, our early ancestor wrested a livelihood by gathering wild foods such as berries, nuts, roots, and grain; by scavenging dead animals; by hunting live animals; and by fishing." pg. 11 "Then, around 12,000 years ago, an enormous transformation began to unfold as a few human societies - in Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas alike - started to practice the deliberate cultivation of plants and the domestication of animals. " pg. 12 "Some historians identify " real history " with writing and so dismiss the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras as largely unknowable because their people did not write " pg. 12 " Our grasp of the human past is incomplete - massive so - if we choose to disregard the...