Central+Asia

​ Central Asia: Activity 1: **nomad, BC, AD, Persians, Herodotus, Scythians, Ostrogoths, Slavs, Avars, Huns, Han Dynasty, plague**. 6. Scythians - The Scythians were a large group of loosely connected people who lived in Russia, and also further south around the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. 7. Ostrogths - The Ostrogoths, like the Visigoths, were originally Indo-European 8. slavs - The Slavs, who spoke a branch of Indo-European 9. Avars - The Avars are first known living in Mongolia. 10. Huns - The Huns probably came from western China, where they were known as the Xiong-nu. 11. Han dynasty - Kao Tsu (Liu Pang), when he established the Han Dynasty 12. Plague - During the Hundred Years' War, a lot of people were very poor and hungry because the soldiers fighting the war had wrecked their farms.
 * 1) nomad - people who travel around from place to place without having one settled place where they live.
 * 2) BC - It stands for Before Christ, and it means the number of years before the time of Jesus Christ.
 * 3) AD - A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord," and it means the number of years since the time of Jesus Christ.
 * 4) Persians - some new people invaded West Asia[[image:http://www.mapmypage.com/maps/images/icon13.gif width="13" height="13"]], moving south from Central Asia
 * 5) Herodotus - Herodotus has been called the "father of history." He was the first writer that we know of (probably really the first) who tried to (in his own words) find out what had happened in the past

Timeline: 50,000 BC - Nomads traveled around Central Asia. 3,000 BC - Nomads tamed horses 1,200 BC - Peolple left Central Asia and move South into Iran in west asia 500 BC - Heredotus hear about from the greek historian 300 AD - The Scythians were taken over other groups 700 AD - The Vikings began to use the dnieper 1200 AD - Genghis Khan was able to unite the mongols. 1300 AD - The plague and central asia collapsed into a lot of small kingdoms. 1405 AD - He died

Activity 2 **prairies, steppes, tundra**

1. Prairies - there isn't enough plant life growing wild to support people unless there is a lot of land for each person 2. Steppes - An extensive plain ,one without trees. 3. Tundra - one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.




 * North || South || Ural Mountains || Gobi Desert ||
 * Steppe the Tundra || Is warmer,but the farmers doesnt have to much water || A lot of trees and mountains. || When is winter is to much cold but when is summer is so hot. ||