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They invented the wagon wheel and the sundial. They were also the first to make bronze out of copper and tin. -
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Historians consider Hammurabi's greatest achievement his effort "to make justice appear in the land." -
The stable, ordered world of the Old Kingdom entered a period of upheaval and violence. Then, around 2050 B.C., a new dynasty reunited Egypt and moved the capital south to Thebes. -
They had developed iron and they use two person chariots. Also the importance of being kind and understanding to people like the Persian king -
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Amenhotep brought a new religion to Egypt, he said that everyone should worship Aton, the sun-disk god. This did not sit well with most of Egypt. In fact, most people hated him for it and the second he died, the next pharaoh put back in place the original deities. -
Two major ideas from the time of Moses that contributed to Judaism was the ten commandants and rejecting all other gods in favor of the one. -
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It was creating a new and improved alphabet. This alphabet only had 22 characters. It made it so that everyone could use the same language and could write. There was no longer a need for scribes to keep records. -
Two brothers were building the foundations of a city, Romulus and Remus. In the building of Rome, it was said that Romulus killed his brother saying "So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements" Romulus began setting more stone on the stains of his brother's blood, this is how Rome was built per the legend. -
They practiced democracy and gave it a chance. Sparta treated their women just as well as their men by keeping them healthy and strong, having them marry later to give them a better chance of having healthy offspring and had them learn gymnastics, wrestling and boxing. Draco wrote down his laws which had previously not been done, so that everyone knew what they were. This made it so that aristocrats could no longer dictate what was legal and what was not.
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Many plebeians refused to fight in the Roman army unless the patricians yielded to their demands for change. -
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The patricians finally engraved the laws on 12 bronze tablets set in the Forum for all to see. The Twelve Tables, as these tablets were called, became the basis for all future Roman law. The Twelve Tables established the principle that all free citizens had a right to the law's protection. -
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He was the first doctor to view medicine as a science. -
The most important ideas from this period in my opinion was the science, medicine and mathematics that developed during this period. Alexandria also was a major intellectual center. Its museum was the first ever and included a library of nearly a million volumes, an institute for scientific research, a zoo, and a botanical garden. The new development of three new systems of thought Cynicism, Epicureanism and Stoicism. -
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The gap between rich and poor. It caused a lack of unity and a fear of revolts. Killing Julius Caesar, he was doing great! WHY ON EARTH DID THEY KILL HIM?
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He grabbed one of Rome's allied cities in Spain. Before they had reached Italy half of Hannibal's army was dead. Outnumbered, Hannibal's troops defeated the Roman armies sent against them. By 216 B.C., in a battle at Cannae in southeastern Italy, Hannibal's soldiers had nearly destroyed the Roman army. -
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Romans burned Carthage
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Caesar granted Roman citizenship to many people in the provinces outside of Italy, added to the Senate representatives from the provinces who were loyal to him. Caesar also carried out social reforms aimed to benefit the poor. To provide jobs, he set up public works programs and ordered slave-owning landowners to hire more free laborers. Colonies were founded throughout Rome's territories to provide land for the city's landless poor. He also used the solar calendar that counted 365 day.
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The Romans excelled at adapting the discoveries of others and using them in new and more practical ways. Contributed to the empire's unity by excelling in road building reaching a total length of 50,000 miles. The prosperity was able to reach people of average means. Although fewer people became very rich, more became moderately well off.
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Political instability, economic decline, unsuccessful reforms.
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They rebelled against Roman rule and defeated a large Roman army. In A.D. 410 the Visigothic chief, Alaric, led his people into Italy, capturing and sacking Rome. -
