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| 7620589970 | Classical Period | Period of time before the modern age that represents great cultural significane | 0 | |
| 7620589971 | Treatment of women in egypt | Able to inherit property, retain property, business, divorce, become pharoahs | 1 | |
| 7620589972 | Mesopotamia women's rights | Few rights, could be killed by husband | 2 | |
| 7620589973 | Shang dynasty | one of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1700 to 1122 B.C.E., used oracle bones to communicate with the gods, collapsed under attack, | 3 | |
| 7620589974 | Zhou Dynasty | the longest lasting Chinese dynasty, during which the use of iron was introduced. Used Mandate of Heaven to justify taking over ruling | 4 | |
| 7620589975 | China 3 new philosophies | Confucianism - respect authority, perform duty, Daoism- harmony with natural world, strong government is useless, cultivate virtue, Legalism - people are evil, govt controls subjects (adopted by Qin dynasty) | 5 | |
| 7620589976 | Qin Dynasty | Dynasty of China that ruled from 221 BCE to 206 BCE that set up a harsh legal system. Defensive walls, standard systems, centralized gov | 6 | |
| 7620589977 | Han Dynasty | Chinese dynasty begun in 202 B.C. by Liu Bang, who reunified China. "Golden age" of Chinese history. Larger than Qin, civil service exam, patriarchal, inventions: rigging for ships, paper, water mills, wheelbarrow | 7 | |
| 7620589978 | Yy | 8 |