Tag: history

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history week meme

day 1: one period/era

The Renaissance is a period that spanned between the 14th and the 16th century in Europe, born in Italy before spreading to other countries. It is based on Humanism, which is derived from the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, before moving onto having a global impact. Its major influence is particularly visible in Arts (paintings, sculptures, architecture, etc.) but also encompasses politics, science and literature. Humanism and the Renaissance played a direct role on many contemporaneous religious and politic debates, including the Reformation.

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Listen my dudes Ancient Egypt existed for a really fuckass long time. Literally just Pharaonic civilization lasted 3,000 years. That’s not even including predynastic civilization and Roman rule. If you lump that in you’re looking at more like… 5,000 years.

Like. If you want a comparison of how long that is: THE YEAR IS CURRENTLY 2018. TWO THOUSAND. TWO-THIRDS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAONIC CIVILIZATION HAVE HAPPENED SINCE THE ‘BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST’

We comparatively just entered the Third Intermediate Period. The Greeks will not take over for another 700~ years. Cleopatra will not be born until the year 2931.

It’s a really long time guys.

Anyway look. Listen. I sat my ass down and wrote out a timeline of “when shit happened if you started at 1AD” because I know backwards numbers are hard to process but here’s an abridged version.

If the first Egyptian Pharaoh came to power in 1AD then…

300: step pyramid built

450: Great Pyramid at Giza built

815: Pepi II dies and civil war breaks out

950: Egypt re-unified

1350: Middle Kingdom ends

1450: New Kingdom begins

1520: Hatshepsut is on the throne

1650: Ahkenaten switches to monotheistic religion and builds a new city

1680: Tutankhamun dies

1720: Ramesses II ‘the great’ ascends to the throne

1740: World’s first peace treaty signed
1790: Ramesses II dies leaving way too many children

1920: Egypt breaks into 2 states again

And now we get to ~~~~the future~~~~. If we started at 1AD all of this stuff hasn’t happened yet

2050: Briefly re-united as a single state

2180: Civil war
2250: Nubian kings take over

2335: Assyrian conquest

2665: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt

2930: Cleopatra VII born

2970: Cleopatra VII dies. Egypt falls to Rome. Fin.

And that’s just starting with the Pharaohs. If you wanted to start with Predynastic Egypt, you can go ahead and ADD ONE THOUSAND YEARS to all of those dates

I hate that this is still getting notes but that it’s getting notes *without the timeline addition* like c’mon, man. I had to do MATHS for this. I DID MATHS FOR YOU PEOPLE AND ALL I GOT WAS A BUNCH OF RACISTS

winterhalters:

history meme (french edition)  →  8 moments (1/8) The evacuations of the Louvre Museum

The two evacuations of the Louvre Museum, in 1914 and later in 1939, took place both times under perilous circumstances, and remained a great traumatism for its head and staff. While Paris was either under the bombings, or under the pressure of the Nazis, a group of people emptied the Louvre from its most precious treasures, risking their lives to protect what they believed in: art. The story goes that in 1914, when the first evacuation took place, the conservator himself pulled the Mona Lisa out of its frame – it had returned back only in the previous January after having been stolen for several years -, put it with extreme care in its wooden box, and slept over it in the train on the way to Toulouse. The first evacuation was extremely difficult and quite spectacular; no plan had ever been made for such circumstances, not even during the Commune in 1871. The second evacuation benefited however from a first protocol established in the 30s; the head of the National Museums endured valiantly the pressure displayed by the Nazis during most of WWII, and always refused to transfer back the works that were sheltered in the South. As of today, the Louvre Museum updates its evacuation protocol about every two years, with a list of about fifteen persons ready day and night to be called in case of emergency; bombing, fire, war, even nuclear attack are being anticipated to protect some of the most precious treasures in the world. Rumor has it that the Louvre’s current protocol is established to transfer its works in less than 5 hours.

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Ankhesenamun, meaning “Her Life is of Amun”, at aged thirteen, married her half-brother Tutankhamun, becoming queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. When the young Pharaoh died, he left Ankhe alone without an heir in her early twenties. She continued in the official capacity as queen of Egypt and played a major role in finding a successor. It’s not known where her body was placed upon her death, no funerary objects with her name are known to exist; this leaves the chance that her tomb is still somewhere out there, waiting to be found.