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empires of the miidle east - Coggle Diagram
empires of the miidle east
the states and empires
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.
In the next millennium (3000-2000 B.
THE EGYPT OF THE PHARAONS
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.
the firts empire of humanity
Numerous Sumerian cities stood out Babylon, its
capital, the largest in the world for a thousand years.
In addition to writing, develop fundamental inventions to the history of humanity, like:
In wood: screw pump (to raise water to very
high ground), wheel, potter's wheel, wooden
and fur canoes, sailing boats, and rowing
boats.
In metal: saw, tongs, drills, nails, hammers,
hoes, hooks, harpoons, knives, arrowheads,
spears, helmets and backs of copper.
Their gods were the sun, the moon, the rivers and the trees.
INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES
In the primitive hordes of hunters, composed of dozens of people, all did the
same; 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.
another
immediately replaced him.
This empire weakened after losing
the medical wars against the
Greeks and was later reduced and
conquered by Alexander the Great
(353-323 B.C.) At the end, it
happened at the hands of the Roman Empire