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The Rise and Fall of Civilizations:
Throught out the ancient world, all of the civilizations rose, came to a climax and fell. Take the Maya, for example. They rose to be a great civlization, with complex math, astronmomy, and calander systems. In 1100 CE the Maya fell, but today some traditions are carried on. Many Maya people are continuing to speak their native language in small villages in Guatemala or Mexico, or are learning it. Nearly all of the dynasties follow this "pattern" in some way. -
Another CCOT in these civilizations had been agriculutre. Every civilization at the time used inovation in some way, whether it be for trade, or for themselves. Innovation in agriculutre, art, religion, language, iron metallurgy, and script led to huge advancements in each society, for trade, tools, and everyday life.
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200-750BCE
Population approached 50,000 people
Artisans made obsidian tools and orange pottery -
300-1100CE
Harvested maize
Maya kingdoms fought constantly
Chichen Itza intergrated captives into society -
600-550BCE
King Neuchadnezzar ruled with lavish wealth
Hanging Gardens -
1122-256BCE
Military froces to organize public life
Mandate of Heaven, recquiring just leaders
Exstensive trade routes -
1200-100BCE
Ceramonial Centers where populations grew
Common subjects gave part of their harvest to elite class
Giant stone heads -
1300-612BCE
Iron weapons
Followed laws like Hammurabi's Code -
1500-500BCE "Vedic Age"
Rig Veda, 1000+ hymns to Aryan gods
Caste System
On the Ganges River -
1500-500BCE
Earliest Austronesian people to sail the Pacific
Maintained trade networks across the ocean
Hierarchial chiefdoms -
1766-1122BCE
Had horse-drawn chariots
Capital at Ao had a city wall of 33 feet high
Capital at Yin had royal palaces and lavish tombs
Used oracle bones for writing -
2200-1766BCE
On the Huang He River, "China's Sorrow"
Monorchial Rule
First efforts to organize public life -
3000-1900BCE
Along the Indus Valley
World's first domesticated chickens
Cultivated cotton -
3200-2350BCE
Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, Kish
Sumerians constructed irrigation systems
Sumerian kings ruled with local nobles who arose from military positions
The epic of Gilgamesh was from here -
3400-30BCE
Controlled trade down the Nile
1500BCE Egypt conquered Nubia -
Unified from 3500-30BCE
Woman pharoh, Queen Hatshepsut
Heiroglyphic wrinting appears in 3200BCE
Polytheistic
