WHAP

By senisk296
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

    Egypt

    ~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 basically god
    Large trading power.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 910

    Mayan

    ~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: 540 BCE to 330 BCE

    Persia

    ~Cyrus the great allowed for territories conquered by Persia to function as normally, but with taxation.
    ~Rivalry with Greece that turned into many large battles
    ~Alexander the great allowed persians to keep culture
  • Period: 325 BCE to 285 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: 210 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: 220 to 205

    Qin Dynasty

    ~short lived dynasty, but it was the first time china was unified and lead to more developed later dynasties
    ~Qin Shihuangdi established centralized rule so he had full control of his empire.
    ~Eventually fell as a result of civil insurrection against Qin Shihuangdi.
  • Period: 315 to 550

    Gupta

    ~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 1520

    Aztec

    ~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.