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Table of Contents

1.Intro

4/5. Ancient River Valley Civilizations 

6/7. Classical Greece/Rome

8/9. Post Classical Africa/Asia

10/11. Medieval Europe

12/13. Renaissance/Reformation

14/15. Enlightenment/Revolutions

16/17. World War I

18/19. World War II

20/21. Cold War

22. Closing

Timmy sat in class, listening to his history teacher drag on 

about things Timmy thought he would never use in his life. His 

eye lids began to drop, drool started to come out of his mouth, 

and his head leaned on his desk. His phone disappeared, and 

suddenly his wild chase for his phone began.....

Timmy went flying back in time! When 

he fell out of the time warp, it was 3500 

B.C. Looking around, he noticed he was 

near a river. He asked a passing peasant 

where he was. "The Indus River!" 

replied the peasant, who added, "I'm 

John. Now, could you please step off the 

fertile crescent?" Timmy step three 

steps forward. John held up a tablet of 

hieroglyphics that explained all four 

river civilizations. He said, "We live on 

the river for travel, water for our food 

and irrigation, and for bathing!" Timmy 

looked around, "what are those fields 

for?" he asked. John replied, "that's 

where we plant our crops! It's new to 

us! We learned about it from the 

Neolithic Revolution." Timmy 

wondered what that meant for a long 

time....

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"What if you hadn't learned to 

farm, John?" Timmy asked. 

John thought for a second 

then replied, "Well right now, 

we would be in the forest 

hunting for food, and our 

homes wouldn't be 

permanent." Timmy thought 

about the world without 

farming. Where would we get 

our food from? Where would 

we live? Would we have 

stores or factories? 

Everything would be 

different....then Timmy 

remembered, "Have you seen 

my phone?" "Your what? Get 

out of here, you're stepping 

on my tomatoes."

A wind blew around him. Suddenly, 

Timmy found himself on the ground. But 

he wasn't on the fertile crescent 

anymore...

"Who goes there?" roared a tall strong 

man dressed in armor. Timmy was 

frightened. "I'm a gladiator. I have a 

fight in twenty minutes, and your 

plopped in the middle of my 

colosseum." Timmy asked, "Where am 

I?" The gladiator replied, "You are in 

Rome, and you must leave because Julius 

Ceasar will be here any moment! I 

suggest you go back to Athens. Those 

polis people might accept your presence. 

I heard they have a direct democracy 

there, they can vote and everything." 

Timmy wondered about if democracy was 

what America had. 

Timmy asked the gladiator, "what if Greece didn't have a 

democracy?" The answer was "if it had an affect on me, I'd tell you. 

Now, hurry on before I slay you." Timmy was terrified. He hated it 

here! If America didn't have democracy, it would be just like Rome 

and he wouldn't have his freedom. He was too scared to ask about 

his phone now....

Timmy closed his eyes for a brief moment. When he opened them, 

he was riding on the back of a horse. "HELP!" He screamed, "Where 

am I?" A man in a fur coat addressed himself as Ghengis Khan. 

"You are among the mongols. We are on our way to take over the 

dynasties of China." One of his followers added, "we are after their 

newly invented gunpowder, porcelain, and mechanical clocks. They 

shall be ours!" Cheers arose. "But where will you take me after 

that?" Timmy asked. "I am on my way to the African savanna, 

they are full of gold and salt that will be great for my empire! For 

now, we will travel along the silk road.

Struggling to hold on to the horse's mane, Timmy shouted, "What 

if there was no silk road?" Khan sarcastically laughed and said, "no 

silk road? HA! If there wasn't a silk road, I wouldn't have been able 

to conquer China, and the trade wouldn't have made me the rich 

man I am!" Timmy fell of the horse and suddenly found him self 

in....

Medieval Europe! A knight nearly 

tripped over Timmy, who was laying 

on the ground. "Whoa! A REAL 

knight!" Timmy exclaimed. "Of 

course I'm a real knight! I've passed 

the code of chivalry. Follow me! I'm 

going on a crusade, care to join?" 

Timmy nodded and asked, "Go 

where?" "To the holy land," the 

knight replied. "I can't go there, I 

need my phone!" Timmy answered. 

The knight was puzzled, but 

continued on his quest. Timmy 

wandered the streets in Europe for a 

while, and he saw people laying on 

the streets, looking ill. One sickly 

man shouted, "get out of here boy! 

Don't catch the bubonic plague like 

me!"

"Where did you catch it from?" Timmy questioned. "Over one 

third of Europe has it, we gained it through route that came off 

of Asian ships. If this had never happened, Maybe we would have 

more money, no one is able to work because so many people are 

sick. Farmland has been deserted and business has gone down. 

Now, leave before you get sick!"Timmy's search for his phone 

continued.

Timmy's body slowly faded away, then appeared in a building full 

of paintings and art. As he looked around, Timmy reached out to 

touch a painting and a patron yelled, "DON'T TOUCH THAT! This 

isn't your utopia." Timmy muttered "I've never seen so many 

paintings!" "That's because we haven't had any, this renaissance 

has really changed art and our ideas." A friend of the patron 

walked into the gallery, "Gutenberg! Welcome!" the man said, "I 

have news of the church! You're printing press has caused a 

reformation."

Gutenberg smiled, and replied "Yes, a lot of people have told me 

that my printing press has changed the way of life. Without it, 

people wouldn't have been able to read the bible as easily." The 

patron added, "Because of your invention, I've joined the newly 

formed Protestant church! Thank you Gutenberg, it wouldn't have 

been easier."

As he continued, he stumbled into a cottage 

where he was greeted by a man who was 

named John Locke. "Come in boy! Let me 

show you around my salon." Timmy 

hesitated, but did as he was told. As they 

walked in, Timmy looked around and called 

out "where are the hair dressers?" "The 

what? This is where we plan to spread 

enlightenment ideas, not cut hair." Locke 

replied. "What kind of ideas?" Timmy was 

confused. "Europe isn't the smartest place 

right now, but others and I are planning to 

change that," John added, "I believe 

everyone has natural rights and hopefully 

the government will see that and if not, 

plan on a revolution." "Didn't that already 

happen?" Timmy thought. 

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