316192773 | Queen Hatshepsut | The fist female ruler,ruled for 22 years during the New Kingdom. | |
316192774 | Mandate of Heaven | Meaning that heaven would grant the Zhou power only as long as its rulers governed justly and wisely | |
316192775 | Tikal | The most important Mayan political cente, may have been populated by more than 100,000 people. | |
316242122 | Lydians | They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system. | |
316242123 | Phoenicians | They established a powerful naval city-stated all along the Mediterranean and they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to the much more complex cuneiform system. | |
316242124 | Egyptian | A civilization developed along the Nile River, where the soil was rich and the agricultural opportunities were plentiful. | |
316242125 | Athens | A political, commercial, and cultural center of Greek civilization. | |
316242126 | Sparta | An agricultural and highly militaristic region. | |
316242127 | Caesar | Was given powers over southern Gaul and other parts of Europe. | |
316242128 | Neolithic Revolution | In a span of several thousands years from about 8000 B.C.E to 3000 B.C.E , groups of people moved from nomadic lifestyles to agricultural lifestyles and town and city life. | |
316242129 | Hittites | By 1500 B.C.E, the Hittites dominated the region, especially because they learned how to use iron in their weapons. | |
316242130 | Ziggurats | Are Sumerians built temples, which were kind of like pyramids, to appease their gods. | |
316242131 | Polytheistic | Meaning that they worshiped more than one god. | |
317903951 | Code of Hammurabi | Is often credited as a significant step toward our modern legal codes. | |
317903952 | Nebuchadnezzar | Rebuilt Babylon as a showplace of architecture and culture. | |
317903953 | Indus Valley | A civilization was built along the banks of a river system. | |
317903954 | Jenne-Jeno | Believed to be the first city in sub-Saharan Africa. | |
317903955 | Olmec | What we know today as Mexico, from 1200 to 1400 B.C.E and the Chavin in the Andes from 900 to 300 B.C.E | |
317903956 | Mauryan Empire | Was found by Chandragupta maurya who unified the smaller Aryan kingdoms into a civilization. | |
318199669 | Gupta Empire | Was more decentralized and smaller than its predecessor, but it is often referred to as a golden age because it enjoyed relative peace and saw significant advances in art and sciences. |
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