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During this time, trade increasing within the Teotihuacan empire.
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CLassical era part two
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This era was a time of great social reform, silk trading, paper, and a Confusionist education system. They started with a non centralized government but switched to a centralized government.
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The Teotihuacan rose due to their optimal location and the take over of their neighbors.
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This city=state was a polytheistic society who were promintnent in trading and had unknown writing system.
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Lead by the First Emperor, the Dynasty was the shortest and came to be after their leader came out on top of the Warring States. They built the most elaborate burial temple with an army of Terra Cotta warriors. The Qin Dynasty also centralized their government.
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This empire controled the largest land area through a great military before a peaceful period. They fell to Arab warriors from the west.
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This era's rulers ruled with the Mandate of Heaven, and had a decentralized government. They used iron metallurgy to create weapons, and attempted to have a monolopy on iron.
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This was the massacure that caused Ashoka to turn to Buddhism and a life of non violence.
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At this time, bloodletting makes a reappearence from the by the Mayans.
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The calendar made by the Olmecs makes a reasppearence in the Mayan society.
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Due to the Andes Mountains, the Mochicans were isolated from all but the other Ande states.
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the mlitarist ways of the empire stop about 300BCE
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The Mayans were largely influenced by the Olmecs, inheriting the bloodletting, science and maths, writing, and the ball game.
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This empire mostly had artists, textile factories, and isolation. Due to this isolation, they were very different from other developing civilizations.
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The Gupta empire tried to reunify the region that had once been ruled by the Muryan empire.
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This empire reunfied the old Mauryan empire. They lasted only a short time after they tried to expand and dissappeared.
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The first emperor conquered and unified the river valley for the time.
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The generals of Alexander split the perisan empire into three and so rose the biggest of them all the sasanid.
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After the fall of persians to alexander others rose.
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By the end of the persian empire they controlled many diffrent groups and civilizations.
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Starting in Anatolia, The Achaemenid empire then expanded to India. The only person strong enough to take them down was Alexander the Great.
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The increasing population led to the need for new land.
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The Aryans populated the area between the Himalayas and the Ganges River. By 750 BCE, they had many cities to accomadate their large population and were forced to expand by 500 BCE.
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The Bantu people occupied most of South Africa by 1000 BCE and significantly helped the spread of agriculture.
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After the Gupta tried expanding, they entered into a period of decline from which they never recovered.
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The Kingdom of Kush was, at this point, exterminated by the Assyrians.
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The Kingdom Of KUsh conquered Thebes around 760 BCE, and in 660, the Kingdom of Kush was conquered by the Assyrians.
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The fall of this empire can mostly likely be attributed to a takeover by another Andean state.
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Large populations led to the creation of small cities or large villages.
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At this time, the Kingdom of Kush rose due to the fall of Egypt.
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New crops arose in Africa.
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Rulers justified their power by claiming the Mandate of Heaven, and ruled through their god.
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The use of iron metallurgy in Africa grew at this time.
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The immense making of the Terra Cotta statues. They also made the great after death temple for their emperor.
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The Zhou began using iron weapons for their expanding army.
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The founder of this empirre was the first ruler to unify India and to create a centralized government. The most famous rulr was Ashoka, who is famed for taking over a lot of new land and massacuring thousands before converting to Buddhism.