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Qin
The most innovated state. The rulers commanded a nation of farmers and trained them to be in armies. -
Period: 221 to Oct 13, 1045
Early China - Zhou Period
Created the Mandate of Heaven and overthrew the Shang as dominant leaders in north China. Remembered as a time of prosperity and benevolent rule. -
Period: 221 to
Early China - Warring States Period
During this time, the states' scale and intensity of rivalry accelerated. States were absorbing other states and diminishing others. -
Period: 350 to
Nubia
Full of gold and laid on a very wealthy piece of land. Nubians imitated Egypt's way of life. -
Period: 350 to
Meroe
Capital of Nubia from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. More independence from Egypt and influenced more by South Africa. -
531
Daoism
Started during the Warring States Period and founded by Lao-tzu. Daosim urged withdrawls and rigid hierarchy. -
551
Confucianism
Concfucianism was about tradition and reflected on family. Practiced the importance of rituals to fix the "broken" society. -
Period: Oct 13, 1000 to
Celtic Europe
Celtic groups occupied all of France, Britain, and Ireland. Never had a Celtic "nation." Often moved around and often described as cliche Irelanders. -
Oct 13, 1045
Early China - Mandate of Heaven
The Mandate of Heaven was the chief deity who was the pergotative of Heaven. Controlled with wisdom and if this deity coulld not justify himself, a new one would be appointed. -
Period: Oct 13, 1045 to
Early China - Shang Period
In this time period, people grew millet, raised chickens and pigs and used stone tools. The Shang were the earliest dominant people in China that there are written records of. -
Period: Oct 13, 1069 to Oct 13, 1550
Egypt - New Kingdom
Thebes was still the center of administration in Egypt during the New Kingdoms. In this kingdom, lovers could speak to each other in terms of apparent equality, slowly eliminating sexism. -
Period: to
Early China - Xia Dynasty
Very first dynasty that followed the Golden Age. The successed by the Shang. -
Period: to
Egypt - Middle Kingdom
Thebes was the center city where the administration took place. Early monarchs of the Middle Kingdom restored centeralized control by creating a new class of loyal administrators. -
Period: to
Hammurabi
The Amorite ruler of Babylon from 1792 - 1750 B.C.E. who took over many city-stattes in Mesopotamia and most recognized for a code of laws . -
Babylon
Founded in 1894 B.C.E. Largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. -
Period: to
Egypt - Old Kingdom
The capital of the Old Kingdom was Memphis near the head of the Nile Delta. Created the step-pyramid in this time period. -
Indus River Valley
Thrived from 2600 - 1900 B.C.E. Mohenjo-Daro was the largest city in the civilization, but little to nothing is known about political institutions of the Indus Valley. -
Mesopotamia
Agricultural Revolution was first recognized here around 5000 B.C.E. Populated by Sumerians and Semites. -
Egypt
The Pharaonic Period started about 3200 B.C.E. Also called the "Gift of the Nile" by Greek traveler, Herodotus, in fifth-century B.C.E. -
Cuneiform
Form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols that represented words or syllables. Only taught to a small group of people and administrative scribes because it was so complicated. -
Hieroglyphics
A system of writing where symbols represented sounds, syllables or conepts. Used for official and monumental inscriptions in ancient Egypt. -
Sumerians
The people who ihabitated mostly southern Mesopotamia until the end of the third millennium B.C.E. Created irrigation, cuniform, and religious thinkings.
