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Capital of a flourishing kingdom in Southern Nubia from 4th century BCE to the 4th CE. Period were Nubia showed more independence from Egypt and the influence Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Most innovated, located on the western edge "Central States." They commanded a nation of farmers and employed them in large, well tranied armiers
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Iron replaced Bronze as a primary metal for tools and weapons. China metal workers were the first to forge steel.
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Orginating in the Warning States with Laozi, Chiense school of thought. Offered a alternative to Confucian emphasis on hierarchy & duty.
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Celtic civilization that orginated in central Europe in early part of the 1st millennium BCE. People shared common linguistc & cultural features.
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Overthrew the Shang and became the next Dynasty, created the concept The Mandate of Heaven.
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Chinese religion devolped by the Zhou, according to which it was the privalige of heaven, the Chief diety, to grant power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best interests of his subject.
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Western name for Chiense philosopher Kongzi. His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on China. Served as a conduct for government.
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Sometimes reffered to the Egypitan Empire. Period in ancient history between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC, covering 18th, 19th, 20th Dynasties of Egypt.
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Ruled in the Yellow R. valley in the 2nd millennium BC, succeding the Xia dynasty then followed by the Zhou dynasty. Documents were written in orcale bones that gave us information about the Shang dynasty. Shany Dynasty god was Di, was very distant with humans & controled storms
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The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It was the capital of the Amorite King Hammurabi in the 8th century B.C.E. Was orginally a Akkadian city dating from the Akkadian empire.
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Ruler of Babylon. Conqured many city-states southern and northern mesopotamia. Best known for a code of laws.
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Metal ores were imported were imported from Asia. They were used to make tools and weapons out of bronze. Anotolia was the firdt to produce a tool or weapon out of bronze in 1200 B.C.E.
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Second half of the Eastern Zhou era is called the Warning States Period (481-221 b.c.e.) because of the intense rivarly and warfare between the states acceralted.
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New therioes about peopling the Americas was more complex. May have involved traveling by sea as well as walking across a land bridge between Sibera & Alaska. Earliest civilization is believed to be around 35,000 25,000 b.c.e.
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Period of history of ancient Egypt between 2000 BC and 1700 BC. Estblishment of 11th Dynasty to the end of the 12th Dynasty. Some writers may include the 13th & 14th Dynasties.
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Succeeded by the Shang. Followed tranquil masters of Golden Age.
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A system of writing in which pictoral symbols represented sounds, syllables, or concepts. Used for offical and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt
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The Old Kingdom is the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt gained its first continous peak of civilization.
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Culture is mostly known for there two towns known as Harappa & Mohenjo- Daro
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The Summerians were the ones that dominated southern mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. Responsible for the creations of cuneiform, irrigation technology, and religious conceptions.
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a system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words & syllables. Orginated in Mesopotamia and was used initally for Summerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia.
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Egypt was protected by surroundings barriers of desert and a harborless, marshy seacoast. Egypt exhibits of a natural enviroment on the history and culture of a society.
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Thousand mile strech of the Nile R. lying in between Aswan and Khartounm straddling the southern part of modern Egypt and the Northern part of Sudan. Four thousands years it has served a major purpose in trade between tropical Africa & Meditterranean
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Mesopotamia is between Euphartes & Tigris River, this is where the civilization devolped alongside the plain and in between the rivers. The soil irrigated by the riviers becaus the rivers would overflow
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