README.md

EuropeanHistoryData

This data can be used in applications to study for AP euro please report factual inaccuracies by creating a new issue.

Contributing

Please create a new branch and add what you want, when you are ready make a pull request and it will be reviewed to see if it meets the standards.

Startup

after creating a new branch and pulling the main run npm i to set everything up.

You can also run three helper commands in the terminal:

npm run build - This will put together all the info in all the JSON files and output it into one file

npm run jsonify - It will generate JSON files based on what is placed in this file -> https://github.com/Educational-technologies/EuropeanHistoryData/blob/main/TimeLineData.js

npm run search It allows you to search all the .json files to see if something already has been made IT is still a WIP so if you are not sure if something hasn't already been created then just manually check.

Information

For creating new events please make a new file in Data called it EVENT_NAME.json Then please format it as follows:

{
        "title": "Pico della Mirandola",
        "date": "Late 15th Century",
        "dateValue": 1486,
        "type": "person",
        "tags": [],
        "summary": "Mirandola was an %{Italian Renaissance#The Italian Renaissance} philosopher with a focus on #{Individualism}. His most famous work, Oration on the Dignity of Man, discussed the unlimited potential of humans, their free will allowing them to shape their place in the Universe."
}

This displays two important things, if there is another 'article' mentioned in summary please link it, this is done by doing %{The Text you want to display#real title of it}, next another important feature is shown, the #{} this allows you to get the definition of something so you can either so #{case doesn't matter} of a word that is already defined in EuropeanHistory\Definitions or you can add a new one follow this structure:

//For words like nationalism, where there are synonyms like national identity do as follows otherwise it's the same, but with only one word. 
{
    "nationalism": "DEF of nationalism",
    "national identity": "same def"
}
// Then name the file NATIONALISM&NATIONAL_IDENTITY.json or if it's a single word WORD.json

Special features

Currently, there are three special annotations

#{}

This tells it to define the word, so write it in any case you want But it must be in the EuropeanHistory\Definitions directory, or you can add it 

%{}

This is a way to link ideas and 'articles' together so just do %{Text you want displayed#The title of the article}

&{}

This just tells the system to bold the word ex: 
    The &{Renaissance} was cool! | Renaissance would be bolded 

tags

Tags are essential as they signify what the data is of, all of the tags are found here:

important_date: For events found on the important dates sheet,
TBD

type

Type is much like tags but it is just one thing so it's the overarching idea,

person: if it is a person,
war: if it is a war/battle,
idea: something like the universal man,
tech: technology ex: Seed Drill, 
law: a law, 
treaty: A treaty,
revolution: a revolution or mass protest, 
death: diseases famines genocides, 
building: important landmarks like the Palace of Versailles,
economy: Things that affect the economy like a tariff or something: corn laws  | more specific than law, 
era: something like the scientific revolution, 
art: art type or example, 
unification: a unification movement.