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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, made up of dozens of people,
In the tribes, composed of
hundreds of people, some individuals differed from magicians, shamans andsorcerers who channeled myths, lies
The development of agriculture
and technology created the necessary conditions which for society became
more complex; the division of labor appeared
THE STATES AND THE EMPIRES
An ancient state was a political organization or an organizing power that
controlled a territory and a subordinate population.
Archaeologists had discovered that the first states appeared between
4000 and 3000 BC, in the 4th millennium
The development of agriculture had been brought to the west of present-day Iran
THE FIRST EMPIRE IN THE HUMANITY
Sumeria, located south of
old Mesopotamia was the first
and the oldest civilization of the
world.
Its agricultural wealth is based
on technology control
periodic flooding of the two rivers in
in the midst of which they settled their fields and cities
develops fundamental inventions for the history of humanity, such as:In wood: screw pump (to raise the water to very
high ground)wheel, potter's wheel, woodand leather canoes, sailboats and paddles
boats.
The writing served to
record dedications to temples and deities,
THE EGYPT OF THE PHARAONS
Around the Nile, an empire that unified under
the authority of a single king
Egyptian culture developed the hieroglyphics as a form of writing, until today some of the pyramids
They were built by thousands of thousands of slaves, to deposit them inside, in chambers
and secret passages, the mummified bodies.
This empire lasted more than two
a thousand years
. PERSIAN EMPIRE
The theocratic monarchy, whose king was considered the personification of god,
occupied since the middle of the second millennium BC. the current territory of Iran,
His army was one of the most
mighty of old.
This empire was weakened after losing
the medical wars against Greeks and then dropped and
conquered byAlexander the Great
(353-323 BC)