The Worlds History

After looking at all these different characters and different elseworlds story lines, I now will briefly look into some of our world’s history to get some of my own elsewords story lines, but with some actual history involved.

I will only go through a few of the world’s history and I will not talk about modern lifestyle or our possible future, as these have been done in film already such as; The Avengers, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Ironman, Thor, etc and some are still in production such as; Man of Steel, Ironman 3, Captain America: Winter Solider, etc.

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization in the Northeast of Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

Egyptian civilisation coalesced around 3150BC.

The history of ancient Egypt occurred in a series of stable Kingdoms, separated by periods of relative instability, known as intermediate periods, these periods consisted of; the Old Kingdom of the Early Bronze age, the Middle Kingdom of the Middle Bronze age and then the New Kingdom of the Bronze age.

Egypt reached the pinnacle of its power during the New Kingdom, during the Ramesside period.

Egypt was invaded and conquered by several foreign powers, such as; the Libyans, Nubians, Assyria, Babylonia, Persian rule and Greece, in the third intermediate period of Egypt and late period. In the aftermath of Alexander the greats death one of his generals, Ptolemy Soter, established himself as the new ruler of Egypt. This Ptolemaic Dynasty lasted in Egypt until 30BC, when it fell to the Roman Empire and became a Roman province.

The success of ancient Egyptian civilisation came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River Valley. The predictable flooding controlled irrigation of the fertile valley produced surplus crops. With resources to spare, the administration sponsored mineral exploitation of the valley and surrounding regions this lead to the early development of an independent writing system and the organisation of collective construction and agricultural projects, this of course lead to trading with surrounding regions and a military intended to defeat foreign  enemies and assert Egyptian dominance.

Motivating and organising these events was down to a bunch of selected and elite scribes who were religious leaders and administrators under the control of a Pharaoh, who ensured the cooperation and unity of the Egyptian people in the context of an elaborate system of religious beliefs.

The Egyptians achieved a great many things such as the surveying and construction techniques used to facilitate the building of monumental pyramids, temples and obelisks. They also used a system of mathematics, a practical and effective system of medicine, and agricultural production techniques with the first known ships, Egyptian faience and glass technology with new forms of literature and the earliest known peace treaty with Hittites. Egypt has left a lasting legacy. Its art and architecture were widely copied and it antiquities carried off to far corners of the world. Its monumental ruins have inspired the imagination of travellers and writers for centuries.      

Cerny, J (1975). Egypt from the Death of Ramesses III to the End of the Twenty-First Dynasty' in The Middle East and the Aegean Region c.1380–1000 BC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity in 600 AD. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the repelling of a Persian invasion by Athenian leadership. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.

Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe, for which reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture.

The historical period of ancient Greece is unique in world history as the first period attested directly in proper historiography, while earlier ancient history or proto-history is known by much more circumstantial evidence, such as king lists, and pragmatic epigraphy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece

Bruce Thornton, Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization, Encounter Books, 2002

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of ancient Roman civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The 500-year-old Roman Republic had been destabilized through a series of civil wars. Several events marked the transition from Republic to Empire, including Julius Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator in 44 BC.

The first two centuries of the Empire were a period of unprecedented stability and known as the Pax Romana otherwise known as the Roman Peace. It reached its greatest expanse during the reign of Trajan around 98–117 AD. In the 3rd century, the Empire underwent a crisis that threatened its existence, but was reunified and stabilized under the emperors Aurelian and Diocletian.

Christians then rose to power in the 4th century, during which time a system of dual rule was developed in the Latin West and Greek East. After the collapse of central government in the West in the 5th century, the eastern half continued as what would later be known as the Byzantine Empire.

Because of the Empire's vast extent and long endurance, the institutions and culture of Rome had a profound and lasting influence on the development of language, religion, architecture, philosophy, law, and forms of government in the territory it governed, particularly Europe, and by means of European expansionism throughout the modern world.

John Bagnell Bury, A History of the Roman Empire from its Foundation to the death of Marcus Aurelius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages, also known as the Medieval period, is the period of European history in the 5th to the 15th centuries, normally marked from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire until the beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The mediaeval period thus is the mid-time of the traditional division of Western history into Classical, Medieval, and Modern periods; moreover, the Middle Ages usually is divided into the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, and the Late Middle Ages.

In the Early Middle Ages, depopulation, deurbanization, and barbarian invasions continued apace. The barbarian invaders formed new kingdoms in the remains of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century North Africa and the Middle East became an Islamic Empire after conquest by Muhammad's successors. Although there were substantial changes in society and political structures, the break with Antiquity was not complete. The Eastern Roman Empire survived and remained a major power. Most of the new kingdoms incorporated many of the extant Roman institutions, while monasteries were founded as Christianity expanded in Western Europe. In the 7th and 8th centuries, the Franks established an empire covering much of western Europe; the Carolingian Empire endured until the 9th century, when it succumbed to the pressures of invasion from; the Vikings from the north, the Magyars from the east, and the Saracens from the south.

During the High Middle Ages, which began after AD 1000, the population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and crop yields to increase. Manorialism, which is the organization of peasants into villages that owed rent and labor services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords, in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organized in the High Middle Ages. Kingdoms became more centralized after the breakup of the Carolingian Empire. The Crusades, first began in 1095, were military attempts, by western European Christians, to regain control of the Middle Eastern Holy Land from the Muslims, and succeeded long enough to establish Christian states in the Near East. Intellectual life was marked by scholasticism and the founding of universities; and the building of Gothic cathedrals, which was one of the outstanding artistic achievements of the High Middle Ages.

The Late Middle Ages were marked by difficulties and calamities, such as famine, plague, and war, which much diminished the population of Western Europe, in the four years from 1347 through 1350, the Black Death killed approximately a third of the European population. Controversy, heresy, and schism within the Church paralleled the warfare between states, the civil war, and peasant revolts occurring in the kingdoms. Cultural and technological developments transformed European society, concluding the Late Middle Age and beginning the Early Modern period.

Bauer, Susan Wise (2010). The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

Wickham, Chris (2009). The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400–1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages