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Empires of the middle east
In the primitive hordes of hunters, composed of dozens of people, all did the
same; there were no differences among its members. In the tribes, made up of
hundreds of people, a few individuals differed from magicians, shamans, and
sorcerers who channeled myths, lies and superstitions into the unknown, gaining
influence and often becoming leaders of the tribe. The development of agriculture
and technology created the necessary conditions what for the society became
more complex; appeared the division of work. As a logic consequence, appeared
the trade, the markets and merchants
An ancient state was a political organization, or power of organization that
controlled a territory and a subordinated population. The states established a
city like a capital.
The archeologists had found that the first states appeared between
4000 and 3000 B.C., in the IV millennium exactly where the intensive
develop of agriculture had been taken, to the west of actual Iran, in
Mesopotamia, and in Egypt too.
Sumerian, situated to the south of
the old Mesopotamia was the first
and the oldest civilization of the
world. Emerged from settlements
that were unified under military
leaders, such as Lugalzagesi,
Sagon of Acad, Ur-Nammu and
Hammurabi, which we have
already mentioned.
Their gods were the sun, the moon, the rivers and the trees. The high priest king
was considered the intermediary between the gods and the men. Writing served to
engrave the dedications to temples and deities, as well as the real lists, that justified
the dynasties and lineages of the monarchs; but also for the control of the population
and of the community.
Around the Nile, an empire that unified under
the authority of a single king, called the
pharaoh, came to the people that inhabited
from Sahara Desert to the Sinai Peninsula by
3100 BC.
The Egyptian culture developed the
hieroglyphs as a form of writing, until today
some of the pyramids remain, tombs of
pharaohs made by their successors to reinforce their intended divine character.
Thousands of thousands of slaves built them, to deposit in their interior, in chambers
and secret passages, the mummified bodies. This empire lasted more than two
thousand years, to the very dis of the splendor of Rome.