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EMPIRES OF THE MIDDLE EAST - Coggle Diagram
EMPIRES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
COMPLEX SOCIETIES
Before agriculture
There was no difference among the members of the hordes
Emergence of Agriculture and Technology
Division of work: farmers, potters.
Trade
Markets
Merchants
Result
The bosses reserved the monopoly of forces and Information.
STATES AND EMPIRES
STATE
An acient state was a political organization or power of organization that controled a territory and a subordinated. States states stablished a city as a capital.
EMPIRE
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
FIRST STATES
4.000- 3,000 B. C
Mesopotamia
Egypt
3.000-2.000 B.C
India
Coast of Peru
2.000-1.000B.C
China
First dinasty Xia
FIRST EMPIRE OF THE HUMANITY: SUMERIAN
It was located to the South of old Mesopotamia
It was the first and oldest civilization of the world
Characteristics
Its agricultural wealth was based on the control of technology to control floods
Its capital was Babylon
Their gods were: the sun, the moon, rivers, and trees.
Contributions to humanity
Writing:Cuneiform
EGYPT OF PHARAONS
Location
It was located around the Nile river
Consolidated by the people from the Sahara Desert to the Sinai Peninsula
Characteristic
One single king called: Pharaon
Pyramids and pharaon tombs were built by slaves.
Contributions to humanity
Writing: hieroglyphs
Incredible pyramids and tombs
PERSIAN EMPIRE
Location
It occupied the present territory of Iran, and extended immensely from northern Greece to the Indus, including Thrace, the Middle East, Asia Minor and the Caucasus
Characteristic
Its army was one of the most powerful of antiquity. The king had a personal army of 10,000 soldiers, known as "THE IMMORTAL"
It became a weak empire after losing a war against Greece