Monday, November 15, 2010

Columbus Leaves Spain

Q: when were you born and where?
A: I was born in 1451, in Genoa, Italy.
Q: what were you famous for?
A: well I started the Columbian Exchange, which brought the potato and the corn to Europe, as well as Africa, I was the first to discover the new world as well as discover an island, and named in San Salvador.
Q: so what did you accomplish after you had ventured overseas to Spain?
A: oh, well my dear American, I had established the first Spanish settlement in the new world.
Q: and now when did you die, how?
A: I had died on May 20, 1506. I died from a venereal disease he'd picked up in the Caribbean's.
(Explorers…way to be un-coincided Columbus).

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

the Great Schism

The Great Schism is one of the most important historical events of the medieval era.
Q: why was it important?
A: The Great Schism divided the Catholic and Orthodox Churches into the Roman Catholic (Western), and the Greek Catholic or the Greek Orthodox Churches.
Q: when was this?
A: the Great Schism is traditionally dated to 1054, in the eleventh century A.D.
Now it is difficult to determine the point at which the split became a fixed.

Julius Caesar/Fall of Roman Republic

Julius Caesar:
Q: when and where were you born?
A: on July 12, 100 B.C., in Rome
Q: why would you say you are significant or what accomplisments have you made?
A: I was the Governor of Gaul 58-49 BC. Appointed dictator for ten years in 47 B, for life on 14 February 44 BC. I was married to Cornelia and had ine daughter, Julia.
Q: when and how did you die?
A: I was stabbed 23 times om March 15, 44 BC.
Q: how did the roman rerpublic fall?
A: well, so I died thus letting the Roman Republic fall.