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Empires of the Middle East - Coggle Diagram
Empires of the Middle East
INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES
In the primitive hordes of hunters, composed of dozens of people, all did the same; there were no differences among its members.
The development of agriculture and technology created the necessary conditions
Appeared the division of work
the trade, the markets and merchants
THE FIRST EMPIRE IN THE HUMANITY
Sumerian, was the first and the oldest civilization of the world.
Numerous Sumerian cities stood out Babylon, its capital, the largest in the world.
Their gods were the sun, the moon, the rivers and the trees.
Its agricultural wealth was based on the control of the technology of periodic floods.
Develop fundamental inventions to the history of humanity, like: wood, metal.
THE STATES AND THE EMPIRES
An ancient state was a political organization, that
controlled a territory and a subordinated population.
Develop of agriculture had been taken, to the west of actual Iran, in Mesopotamia, and in Egypt too.
The first
testified dynasty by the science is the Xia
The states established a city like a capital.
THE EGYPT OF THE PHARAONS
Around the Nile, an empire that unified under the authority of a single king, called the pharaoh.
The Egyptian culture developed the hieroglyphs as a form of writing.
PERSIAN EMPIRE
The theocratic monarchy, whose king was considered the personification of god, occupied since the middle of II millennium B.C.
The king had a personal army of 10,000 soldiers, known as "THE IMMORTAL"
This empire weakened after losing the medical wars against the Greeks