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The Bantu, were a class of over 400 ethnic groups who spoke a similar language, and shared common customs. There are many causes of the Bantu migration; drying up of the Sahara grasslands, an increase in population, the constant attacks from stronger neighboring tribes in West Africa and the Nile valley, rulers wanted to expand their kingdoms, tribal wars caused defeated tribes to run away, and the Bantu people wanted to expand their iron-working culture.
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(Palaeolithic is also more generally associated with the cultures and lifestyles of the hunter-gatherers who produced the tools in question. Paleolithic people were the first to create clothing, usually out of leather or linen, and even created needles with eyes for sewing.
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The stone age was a period of prehistory where people use stone tools. Long ago, they used technologies such as stone tools to hunt, eat, and build. This period was important because it helped many people stop the nomadic lifestyle and began farming when they climate change. The started to use many of their technologies such as Hammerstones.
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The Neolithic Revolution was a period of time were people transformed into hunting to agriculture settlements and early civilization. This caused many people to leave the nomadic lifestyle completely. From the Neolithic Revolution, many people moved from region to region.
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Mesopotamian civilizations formed on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and Kuwait. Some of the major Mesopotamian civilizations include the Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian civilizations.
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The Neolithic era was the final part of the stone age. It allowed the first development of farming to travel in the east & around the world. This era was so significant because it allowed a change to hunting/gathering to agriculture and settlement which caused an increase in population.
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By about 4000 BCE, the Sumerians had organized themselves into several city-states that were spread throughout the southern part of the region. These city-states were independent of one another and were fully self-reliant centers, each surrounding a temple that was dedicated to god or goddess specific to that city-state.
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This was the time when the civilization reached its height of wealth international prestige, and military might.
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The Assyrian had many accomplishments such as Military strength, and technological inventions.
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The Akkadian Empire was an ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in ancient Mesopotamia, which united all the indigenous Akkadian speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers under one rule within a multilingual empire.
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The Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent. Coming from central Asia, this large group of nomadic cattle herders crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and came in contact with the Indus Valley Civilization.
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The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile floodplain of the Indus River and its vicinity. They had a highly developed city life; many houses had wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate underground drainage system.
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The code was created to protect the “weak” and to deal with criminal and civil matters. The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes, proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi.
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The emperors of the Shang Dynasty ruled over ancient China. During this time the Shang people used bronze to make objects ranging from jewelry to weapons. The Shang were the first people of China to develop writing. Their writing system consisted of over 2000 symbols. They developed a method of writing called logograph which uses characters to represent words. They also created the bronze and farming.
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The Hittites were charioteers who wrote manuals on horsemanship. Ninth century B.C. stone reliefs show Hittite warriors in chariots. "Charioteers were the first great aggressors in human history," the historian Jack Keegan wrote. They developed an advanced chariot and were one of the first cultures to smelt iron and forge it I to weapons and tools.
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The earliest known major civilization in Mesoamerica following a progressive development in Soconusco. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
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During this time the belief that there is only one God, the creator of the universe. Abraham and Moses led the Hebrews to Canaan and to a new religion. Abraham, his son Yitzhak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel) are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites. All three patriarchs lived in the Land of Canaan, that later came to be known as the Land of Israel.
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It became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it was adopted and modified by many other cultures.
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The Zhou Dynasty started the beginning of two major Chinese philosophies which is, Confucianism and Taoism.
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It expanded in the northern and central Andes and was one of the earliest pre-Inca cultures. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast.
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He rebuilt the city with massive walls, a huge temple, and a ziggurat, and extended his rule over neighboring countries. He captured and destroyed Jerusalem and deported many Israelites in what is known as the Babylonian Captivity.
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They created one of the first and largest. It was significant because they were the first people to unite three sites of early urban civilization (Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley) under a single government.
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The Persian Empire was the largest and most powerful empire in the world at the time of the Persian Wars. They controlled land that stretched from Egypt all the way to India. The Greeks were made up of a number of city-states such as Sparta and Athens. The war was to protect each on territory but the Greeks won the war.
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This was a time period of economic growth and cultural flourishing. The years of relative peace between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.