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Old Stone Age
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Tools made from wood and stone
Permanent villages
Men would hunt, women cared for the family
Women may have invented agriculture -
Domesticate animals for the first time
Invented the boy and arrow
Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons existed -
Located on the Nile River
Upper Class: Pharaoh/royal family/priests/officials
Lower Class: everybody else
Civil wars divided the kingdom -
Officials have more power
Pharaohs are weaker
Hyksos invade and take over -
Forced Hyksos out of Egypt
Pharaohs expanded their land
1100 BC: Egypt grew weaker, invaders came through again -
First female ruler
Married her half brother!
After she died, her son had all of her names removed from monuments and buildings -
1379-1362 BC
Social/Religious revolutions
Wanted to change country from Polytheistic to Monotheistic -
Tigris-Euphrates Valley
City-States
Writing-clay tablets
Farming
Architecture -
Sargon-Ruler
Empire reached Mediterranean
fell after 100 years -
Hammurabi's code of Laws
Regulated life -
First to use iron weapons
laws akin to Hammurabi
Capital to far from the valley -
Excelled in warfare
Cavlary and iron weapons
King had total power, represented God -
Took control of Assyrian territory
Nebuchadnezzar, built the Hanging gardens
Successors betrayed the city to the Persians -
539 BC conquered Babylon.
Used wise judgement and different civilizations to rule within government
Darius the Great, Xerxes important rulers -
Slaves in Egyptian empire
Abraham and Moses important people
Moses leads them to Canaan, the believed promised land
12 tribes unite under Saul, then David and then Solomon
922 BC tribes revolt and divide into two countries: Israel and Judah -
Trade/Commerce style of living
Discovered the royal purple dye -
FIrst to use a money economy
