Monday- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday-
Assyrians
Assyrians were fierce people...exile a lot of people
More advanced in weapons and strategy
Tried to take over too much land too quick
Fall in 612 BC
Taxed a lot
Could only do jobs that fall in your social class
Tuesday:
Lots of boundaries and barriers
Water wells and drainage systems (inventions)
Women had many rights
Theocracy
Literate and agricultural
Known for gambling
Egyptians -
Ruled by dynasty
Strict economy
Grew own food and traded it
Nile river provided fertile soil
Sons fo Farmers went to work at 14
Wealthy children would be educated
Few careers for women - trained for motherhood
Wednesday:
Zhou Dynasty-
Feudal Government
Passed through families
Lost power in 256 BC
Mandate of Heaven
Silk
Coins and Chopsticks
Catapults
Crossbow
Iron Tip Plow
Great Wall to keep the Mongolians out
Yellow Sea and Gobi Desert for protection
5 Confucian Virtues- Humaneness, Righteousness, Ritual propriety, Knowledge, and Integrity
Phoenicians
Timber sales, woodworking, and cloth dyeing
Imported raw materials
Gained wealth and power by trading
Monarchy
Merchants were more powerful than usual
Mediterranean Sea
Land is rocky and mountainous
Mostly fish
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