Monday - No School
Tuesday -
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
Thursday- I presented mine and so did Zhou Dynasty
Zhou dynasty
- 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
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