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10,000 BCE
The start of man
Neolithic revolution
Farming & Agriculture
Leads to new technology and domestication
Neolithic villages -
3100 BCE
Mesopotamia
Started around rivers
Silt
Agricultural surplus
Building of the great babylon (531 B.C) -
2686 BCE
Ancient Egypt (old kingdom)
Nile river
Upper and lower
King Menes
Memphis
Pharaohs and gods
pyramids were built
Sphinx built -
2500 BCE
Indus River Valley (Harappa)
The Harappan civilization experienced its height around 2500 BC and began to decline about 2000 BC. The causes of its downfall are not certain. One theory suggests that the Aryan people migrated into this area. Mohenjo-Daro just vanished there are theories of many things from shift of river all the way to nuclear bomb -
2300 BCE
Babylon
Babylon became the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 609 to 539 BC. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. -
2000 BCE
Egypt (Middle Kingdom)
Golden age
Created the powerful army for defense
Pharohs were considered gods
Built hidden tombs -
2000 BCE
China (Shang Dynasty)
Writing (around 2000bc)on Oracle Bones using what is known as Calligraphy. They invented Silk (about 2640 BC)-silkworms and mulberry trees. The Religion was ancestor worship -
1500 BCE
Aryans Invade, Conquer and Make War in the Indus Valley
1500 BCE, It has been estimated by various scholars that between 1500 and 1200 , pastoral people migrated from the northwest, perhaps across the steppe lands of what is now central Russia, through Afghanistan, through the Khyber Pass and onto the Indus Plain. These migrants were to be called Aryans -
1100 BCE
China (Zhou dynasty)
Mandate of Heaven the gods allowed empowers to rule-dynastic cycle
Feudalism is that Feudal lords controlled the area. Growing economy, Iron Age, First money, Feudal lords became too strong and Ended the Zhou dynasty Confucius- Confuciusism the idea the people need to play their role -
1000 BCE
Egypt (New Kingdom)
Ramses the great
Conquered other areas
Pharohs buried in the Valley of Kings
Time of Expansion -
475 BCE
China (QIN Dynasty)
Warring states period (475 - 221 BC)
QIN Shi Huangdi invented Legalism along with the Great Wall of china. He Only lasted 221-206 BC
buried with the Terra-cotta army -
332 BCE
Alexander The Great
It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.
