We presented today
Emperors and Kingdoms
Induse River
-No Major Kingdoms or empires
China
-Xia Dynasty
-yellow river
-first known dynasty
-not much is known about them
-Black Pottery
-Shang Dynasty
-bronze
-human sacifices
-if king died 100 slaves died with him
-Western Zhou
-Used father son kingdom passing
-didnt rule all of china
-Eastern Zhou
-same thing as western zhou
Mesopotamia
-Babylonia
-King Hammurabi
-didnt last long after hammurabi's death
-Neo Babylonia
-Babylon capitol of empire
-eventually taken over by roman empire in 539 b.c.
-55 miles south of modern day bagdad
-babylon means gate of gods
Nile
-The old kingdome
-pharoahs buried in pyramids
-pharoahs considered goads on earth
-nicknamed "the pyramid age"
-The middle kingdome
-golden age of egypt
-had strong armies
-trade arts and literature flourished
-The new kingdome
-expansion period of Egypt
-pharoahs buried in the valley of kings
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