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4000 BCE
Mesopotamia
The earliest-known civilization was Sumer in southern Mesopotamia -
Period: 2575 BCE to 3000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
it was during this that the divine kingship became well established as Egypt's form of government and with it an entire culture that would remain virtually unchanged for the next 3000 years. -
Period: 1600 BCE to 1046
Ancient Asia
Throughout most of China's history it was ruled by powerful families called dynasties. The first dynasty was the Shang -
1570 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Second Intermediate Period (c. 1782 - c.1570 BCE), a police force. From his palace at the capital, the king would make his pronouncements, decree laws, and commission building projects, and his word would then be implemented by the bureaucracy which became necessary to administer rule in the country. -
1200 BCE
Ancient China
By 1200 B.C., Shang armies were equipped with horse-drawn chariots. Before that, there is evidence of bronze-tipped spears, halberds (pointed axes) and bows.
The language of the Shang Dynasty is an early form of modern Chinese. Chinese characters first appeared during the Shang Dynasty inscribed on cattle bone and tortoise shells -
201 BCE
Ancient india
leprosy was considered a much younger disease thought to have been carried from Africa to India at some point and then from India to Europe by the army of Alexander the Great following his death in 323 BCE. It is now understood that significant human activity was underway in India by the Holocene Period (10,000 years ago) and that many historical assumptions based upon earlier work in Egypt and Mesopotamia, -
Period: 201 BCE to 500
Ancient india
In ancient Indian society, individuals suffering from leprosy were alienated because the disease was chronic, contagious, resulted in disfigurement, had no cure at the time, and was associated with sin -
Period: to
hammurabi
Hammurabi was the sixth king in the Babylonian dynasty in central Mesopotamia