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Most innovative of all states.
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Was Confuciasms biggest rival. This is where yin/yan came from.
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Name came from a Chinese phylosifor. Was a big influencial system in the Chinese civilization.
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Located in the southeren Europe peninsula. Had very good soil.
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They overthrew the Shang. They took over the elements of shang culture.
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Political ideology devoloped in the Zhou period. It was talked about how to grant the power and how you could loose it.
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Its first civilizations were the Olmec and Chavin. Located in most of modern Mexico.
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Because they were upsessed with afterlife, they made mummification. They had lots of knowledge in medicine, mathematics, and astronomy.
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Amorite ruler of Babylon. He conquered many city-states in Mesopotamia.
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This was the first recorded Dynasty of China. We only have documents about this period which are called oracle bones.
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Largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. Was the capital of Old Babylonian.
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There was the bronze metallurgy and the iron metallurgy. the bronze was in 2000 B.C. and the iron was in 600 B.C.
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Second half of the Zhou period is called the Warring States. The name came because the intesity of the rivaly and warfare between the states increased.
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Capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern Nubia. During this period Nubia showed more freedom from Egypt.
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First Dynasty. Was then later overthrown by the Shang Dynasty.
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Had lots of natural resources. All lived mostly along the Nile river.
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This civilization only lasted until 1900 B.C. Consisted of two major cities, Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
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A system of writing. Was used by Sumerians.
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Was called the gift of the nile. Was surrounded by desserts and harboless, marshy seacoasts.
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Connected sub-Saharan Africa with north Africa. THey had lots of natural resources.
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The system of writing in Egypt. They used pictures to symbolise sounds, syllables, and concepts.
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These were the people that dominated southern Mesopotamia. THey were responsible for the creation of Mesopotamian culture.
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Mesopotamia means "land between rivers" in Greek. It was a land of cities and villiges.
