Spark Note Timeline

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  • Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

    Egyptian civilization

    ~Egypt was based on the Nile river, which allowed them to produce large amounts of grain and expand.
    ~unified Egypt allowed for pharaohs to organize a large society around the needs of the people since they saw the pharaoh as wielding godly power.
    ~Since they produced so much grain, they were a large trading power.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 909

    Mayan civilization

    ~Mayans had a complex hieroglyphic writing system to convey myths, histories, mathematics, and religious belief.
    ~Mayans had pioneered a solar calendar through careful mapping of stars and general astrology.
  • Period: 550 BCE to 334 BCE

    Persian civilization

    ~Cyrus the great allowed for territories conquered by Persia to function as normally, but with taxation.
    ~Rivalry with Greece that turned into many large scale battles
    ~When Persia fell to Alexander the Great he allowed them to keep their culture as the Persians did to other conquered places in the past.
  • Period: 324 BCE to 184 BCE

    Mauryan empire

    ~Founded by Chandragupta Maurya by taking advantage of the unrest in India caused by alexander's army.
    ~For the first time, India was under a single, centralized government instead of regional Rajas.
  • Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

    ~this was a short lived dynasty, but it was the first time china was unified and lead to more developed later dynasties
    ~Qin Shihuangdi established centralized bureaucratic rule so he had full control of his empire.
    ~Eventually fell as a result of civil insurrection against Qin Shihuangdi.
  • Period: 207 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty

    ~The qin dynasty was taken over by Liu Bang who ushered in the Han dynasty.
    ~Liu Bang used centralized rule just like in the qin dynasty, but before this he had a loose assemblage of city-states that would back each other up, but in an incident where he almost got killed since no other city-state helped led to him establishing centralized rule.
  • Period: 315 to 551

    Guptan empire

    ~The empire was organized by Rajas, but these Rajas were either owned or allied with the capital of Magadha.
    ~Rajas were left to their own administration.
    ~The empire declined when economic instability created by the invasion of white huns weakened the state.
  • Period: 1200 to 1521

    Aztec civilization

    ~The last of the native Mesoamerican societies, It fell to Hernan Cortes in 1521 CE
    ~Used many of the same technological findings of the mayans such as calendars and mathematics.