Monday-
No school, Labor day
Tuesday-
Forum post shared their stories
Assyrians-
- Military
- Taxed new lands
- If they refused to pay, they destroyed their city and exiled people
- Highly advanced military
- Top of the line weaponry
- Good strategy
- Fell because they tried to take over too much land
- Military spread too thin
- Economic
- Taxes
- Agriculture and herding
- Person could only do a job with their social class
- Geography
- Located in Northern Mesopotamia in what is now Iran, Syria, Iraq, Turkey
- Settled because it had good soil, rivers, good protection
- Social Class-
- Kings/wealthy spent their life feasting
- Other citizens spent their time farming and other hard labor
Harappans- Indian
- Political
- Began 5,000 years
- Lasted 2,000
- Ended with mutual consent to move where the monsoon winds were more reliable
- No wars, focused on making their city a better place
- People were very diverse
- Economic-
- Type of economy- Barter or trade
- Geography-
- Size of western Europe
- Used same size bricks for all buildings
- Settled in the land of 7 rivers
Wednesday-
Continue Harappans
Continue Geography-
- Rivers- Provided for rich agricultural lands
- Arabian Sea- Provided food and protection
- Himalaya Mountains- Provided protection
Houses
- Preferred 2 story buildings with a small courtyard
- Advanced waste removal technologies
- One public bath
Social
- Gender roles- women had many rights
- They could be chief
- Religion- Theocracy
- Education- Literature, agricultural civilization
- Entertainment- Playing dice and marble, gambling
Advances/Inventions
- Bullock-driven carts, boats
Egyptians-
Political-
- They ruled in dynasties
- There was 28 dynasties
- Pharaohs- Kings
- Government- Pharaohs/Kings
Economic-
- Economy was strictly organized and controlled
- Used a type of money-barter system
- How do people make a living?
- Nile River and Fertile land
- Agriculture was very important
- Raised animals, to eat and sell
Natural Barriers
- Deserts to the East and West of the Nile River
- Mountains to the south
- Mediterranean Sea
- Red Sea
Education-
- Only daughters of wealthy nobles received an education
- Very few careers were open to women
- Most women trained for motherhood
- Some attended village school
- Some attended school designed for specific career
Art-
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Architecture
- Sculptures in wood, stone and jewelry
Gender roles-
- Women
- Raised children
- They were responsible for the family
- Men
- Taught the boys
Thursday-
Absent- Got notes from Megan
Zhou dynasty
Talk about feudalism in Zhou dynasty- economic and political system, its how they organize there political system and economy when other countries were surrounding. King would give chunks of land to nobles and nobles would give lands to knights.
- Quin invaded the Zhou dynasty
Social class
- new tools
- military improvements
- mandate of heaven- blessed by the gods, chosen by them to be a ruler
- spoken and written lang
- roads, canals, bridges
- Dualism- everything is related and works best in balance
- heaven controls life on earth
- coins and chopsticks
- catapults
Confucian Social Hierarchy
- emperors
- scholars
- farmers
- merchants
- slaves/women
Economic
- agricultural based
- metal coin
- cowry shell
- Iron tip plow
- crossbow
Geography
- The great wall started- keep out invaders, protection
- yellow- protection and fishing
- Gobi desert
Confusionism- great way of leading a moral life
- humaneness
- righteousness
- ritual propiety
- knowledge
- integrety
Phoenicians
economic
- early economy timber sales, woodworking, and cloth dyeing
- they didn't have many natural resources
- they imported raw materials
Social classes
- priests
- warriors
- herders farmers merchants
- farm workers and servants
Political
- Kingship appears to have been the oldest form of gov't
- merchants were more powerful because they had more money and made more public affairs
- monarchy
- gained wealth and power by trading
Geography
- Mediterranean sea, now Syria, Lebanon, and northern Israel
- land is rocky and mountainous, unsuitable for farming
- lived mainly from the sea- fishing
- mountain ranges
- before 1200 BC
Religion
- polytheistic
- no significant Phoenician temple had been discovered
- the bible recounts human sacrifices by Phoenicians
- cemetery contained thousands of urns of infants sacrificed to gods
Friday-
Carlos presented on Sumerians
Test Tuesday
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