Europe Blog Information and Citations

-  "The Great Schism (Overview)." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.


- "The Crusades (Overview)." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.

-  "Magna Carta." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 5. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 941-943. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 Nov. 2010.

-  "Charlemagne." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 445-447. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Nov. 2010

-       "Columbus, Christopher." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 19-22. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 13 Nov. 2010.

Julius Ceaser/Fall to Roman Republic

Interview with Julius Ceaser:

Q:Tell me about your life, what important things have you done?A: Well in 49 B.C I crossed the Rubicon River in northern Italy, because no one had done it before. This led to civil wars throughout Rome,but at the Battle of Pharsalus my army and I defeated Pompey.  And shortly after this I joined forces with Cleopatra VII, the ruler of Egypt, and we defeated the republican forces in Rome. After this I became the dictator of Rome.

Q: Why was Julius Caesar Important?

A: Julius Caesar was important because he established the beginning of the fall of the roman empire.

Rome Sacked/Falls to Barbarians

Q:How did the Visigoths attack Rome?
A: There leader was Alaric the first, They surrounded the city for two years, the people inside were starving and were dying of deceases. Rome finally decided to let them in, they terrorized Rome for three days, looking for food, taking money, and killing people. The Visigoths did not find much to take so they left Rome to burn.
Q: Why is this Important?
A:This is important because the sacking of Rome shows that even the strongest, biggest Empires can be defeated.

Axis Age/Golden Age in Greece

Q: So Pericles, what did you give to the Golden age?
 A: I brought science, and i supported art and literature because i thought it was a very important part of civilization.
Q:  And Socrates, What did you give to the golden age?
A: Well I was a philosopher, and I wandered around questioning people about there beliefs. but some people didn't like that so they put me on trial and killed me.

Q: Why was the Golden Age important?
A: Because it brought so many things to back to europe that it had lost in the dark ages

Great Schism (1378-1415)

Interview with Pope Urban VI:

Q: Why were you elected Pope?
A: At the death of Gregory XI in Rome, the cardinals elected an Italian pope. They choose me.

Q: What happened upon your election?
A: A began a series of reforms, which upset the College of Cardinals.
Q: What did they do about that issue?
A: Well they were very angry and elected their own pope and removed to France.

Q: What do you think the Great Schism was?
A: Well it happened from 1378 to 1417, and was the period of time when there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon.
Q: What was the Great Schism a result of?
A: It was the result of existing problems, including the Avignon Papacy and the rivalry among Church officials and many powerful new kings.

Columbus Leaves Spain (1502 A.D.)

Q:Was it hard to let the King of Portugal let you go on the voyage?
A: Yes, i was very hard to get the king to let me leave. I came to him with the idea in 1484, but they said no. So I went to the Queen of Spain,Queen Isabella, and proposed my idea to her, but she rejected them because she thought that the idea was too expensive, but seven years later I finally got her to let me go, I got three ships; the Nina and Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Q: Why did you leave Spain?
A: I left Spain in search for land in 1942, i crossed the Atlantic for 29 Days. And on  October 7, 1492, we spotted land. I named it San Salvador, we also explored several other islands in the Caribbean. We captured Indians and took exotic things to bring back to Europe, when we got back the Queen was pleased to see what we had found and we were treated like hero's.  
Q: Why Was this important?
A: Because if Columbus didn't leave Spain we might not have found the Caribbean and the Americas.

 

Was it hard to let the King of Portugal let you go on the voyage?
A: Yes, i was very hard to get the king to let me leave. I came to him with the idea in 1484, but they said no. So I went to the Queen of Spain,Queen Isabella, and proposed my idea to her, but she rejected them because she thought that the idea was too expensive, but seven years later I finally got her to let me go, I got three ships; the Nina and Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Why did you leave Spain?
A: I left Spain in search for land in 1942, i crossed the Atlantic for 29 Days. And on  October 7, 1492, we spotted land. I named it San Salvador, we also explored several other islands in the Caribbean. We captured Indians and took exotic things to bring back to Europe, when we got back the Queen was pleased to see what we had found and we were treated like hero's.  
Q: Why Was this important?
A: Because if Columbus didn't leave Spain we might not have found the Caribbean and the Americas.

Charlemagne (768–814 A.D.)

Q: Charlemagne, what happened to your brother, how did you become ruler of your entire kingdom?

A: Well, when my father, King Pepin, died my brother and I became king’s of the franks, the land was split in half for us, but I got the bigger half of the kingdom, so my brother and I got into fights and one day he woke up dead, and I became ruler of the entire kingdom.

Q: What made your empire so special?
I wanted to re-create the roman empire, so I expanded from the Elbe River in the northeast to south of the Pyrenees in the southwest and from the North Sea to southern Italy. I enjoyed art and poetry, and i helped bring back some of that back to the ‘Holy roman empire’.
Q: Why were you important?
A: I was important because he expanded the holy roman empire.