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The transition from farming communities to urban communities complex period started between 3000 and Mehrgarh. C. This period marked the beginning of an urban society in India, known as the Indus Valley Civilization, also called Harappan civilization, which reached its peak between the nineteenth century and to XXIX. C. -
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En el año 600 a. C. existían dieciséis monarquías hereditarias en la planicie del Indo-Ganges extendiéndose desde Afganistán hasta Bangladés. Las naciones más grandes eran Magadha, Kosala, Kuru y Gandhara. El derecho al trono, no importa cómo se hubiese logrado, era legitimado por los sacerdotes bráhmanas, quienes componían genealogías ficticias, dándole al rey orígenes divinos (unos decían descender de la dinastía del Sol y otros de la Luna). -
ancient india
Neolithic civilization of the third millennium. C. extended into what is now Pakistan and northwest of the Republic of India. The Vedic civilization was extended during the first millennium. C. especially in northern India, Punjab and the Gangetic plain. -
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The Vedic civilization is an Indo-Aryan culture described in texts composed in Vedic Sanskrit (a language related to Indo-European family). The origin of this culture is not well known, but it is known originally a pastoral society that subsequently became, in an agricultural society composed of four varnas (castes). -
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While the geography of the region was uneven, the Phoenicians made the most of the possibilities for agricultural soil and grown up on the slopes of the mountains. Its cedar forests of Lebanon were allowed logging. -
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The Phoenician pottery was widely used and marketed, as well as colored glass objects and wool fabrics dyed with Tyrian purple, a dye extracted from a mollusc (the murex, Murex genus, whose name in Greek Phoinikes, phoinos derivative "blood red" - identified both the dye and the people who traded). -
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Trade was a major activity. It consisted initially in the form of barter exchange of products made in Phoenicia on goods available elsewhere (well other manufactures, especially of the most developed civilizations-or commodities such as metal ores-copper and tin-o precious metals, especially of the most primitive peoples of the West). -
assyrian
During the third millennium BC. C., the Asia Previous came under the influence of the Sumerian civilization established in the southern plain of Mesopotamia. In the research done in the wake of the archaeological excavations of the Syrian city of Assur has been found that the statues found they had much in common with those found in other temples Sumerians. This shows the great cultural relationship that undoubtedly existed between the two peoples since ancient times. -
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The king of the Qin dynasty and founds a new taketh 皇帝 renamed (Huangdi), religious connotations, which we translate into Spanish for "Emperor". At this historic moment, all later Chinese rulers used this title, leaving the name of "kings" (王 Wang). -
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Liu Bang established a new dynasty, the Han dynasty China prospered rapidly, agriculture, industry and commerce flourished.The Han Dynasty is divided into two periods: Western Han, who had their capital at Chang'an and Eastern Han, who maintained less effective control over the territory, and the court had to move east, near modern Luoyang . -
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Indeed, in 618, a year after the death of the last emperor Sui, the military took power Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty new. In the year 624, his son, having killed two of his brothers against Xuanwu Gate in Chang'an, forcing him to abdicate, becoming the second Tang emperor, -
china
The vast geographical extent of the current state of the PRC makes inevitably the history of all this territory covering, broadly, a large number of people and civilizations. However, the theme of the traditional narrative of Chinese history focuses on a narrower sense, in the Chinese ethnic group, and is closely associated with the evolution of the Chinese language and writing system based on the characters. -
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The gods worshiped by the Phoenicians vary from city to city. So the pantheon of Sidon Tyre or differs from that of Cyprus. Still, some divinities are present in one form or another in most cities significant. -
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The Phoenician pottery was widely used and marketed, as well as colored glass objects and wool fabrics dyed with Tyrian purple, a dye extracted from a mollusc (the murex, Murex genus, whose name in Greek Phoinikes, phoinos derivative "blood red" - identified both the dye and the people who traded). -
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The Phoenicians were one of the first ancient peoples to have a significant effect on the history of wine. Through contact and commerce spread their knowledge of viticulture and wine production and spread several ancient vine varieties. Introduced or encouraged the expansion of viticulture and wine production in several countries still developing varieties suitable for the international market, such as Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain or Portugal -
phoenician
Inhabited since the beginning of the third millennium. C. by Semitic Canaanites, the historic Phoenicia lay on a narrow coastal strip of 40 km, from Mount Carmel to Ugarit (about 300 km). Its mountainous land unsuitable for agriculture (although strove to profit), directed its inhabitants to maritime activities. -
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Late Predynastic period, Egypt was divided into small kingdoms were major: the Hierakonpolis (Nejen) in Upper Egypt and the Buto (Pe) in Lower Egypt. The unification process was carried out by the kings of Hierakonpolis. -
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In orchards were cultivated peas (peas), lentils, onions, leeks, cucumbers and lettuce, plus grapes, dates, figs and pomegranates. Among the animals raised for meat, are pigs, sheep, goats, geese and ducks -
ancient egypt
The first problem arises from the fact that the Egyptians did not use a uniform system of dating: no one had a concept was similar to Anno Domini, or the custom of naming the years, as in Mesopotamia (see Limmu). Dated with reference to the reigns of various pharaohs, possibly overlapping periods of interregnum and regency. -
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The territory it occupied in ancient Egypt consisted of a long narrow strip corresponding to the valley of the Nile River in northeastern Africa. This river rises in lakes Victoria and Albert and flows into a delta in the Mediterranean Sea. Only 60 miles wide and 1,200 miles long formed this fertile valley surrounded largely by the Sahara desert. -
mesopotamia
Inside Mesopotamia, agriculture and livestock were imposed between 6000 and 5000 to. C., assuming full entry to the Neolithic. -
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Before the development of literature, written language was used to carry the administrative accounts of the community. Over time, he began to other use; explain facts, fitas, legends, disasters. -
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The cultures of Mesopotamia were pioneers in many branches of knowledge; developed writing was called cuneiform pictographic initially and later the phonetic in the field of law, created the first code of laws, in architecture, developed important advances as the vault and the dome, created a calendar of 12 months and 360 days and invented the sexagesimal numbering system. -
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The religion was polytheistic, in each city worshiped different gods, though some were common. Among these we can see:
Anu: sky god and father of the gods.
Enki, God of Wisdom
Nannar: Moon god
Utu: Sun god (ca. 5100 BC. Ninurta was called).
Inanna: Goddess Venus
Ea: creator of men
Enlil: god of wind.
