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City planning.

Aryans came into India and brought horses.

young elite who rejected worldly pleasures and meditated under bodhi tree and reached enlightenment. became the Buddha

universalizing religon. Four Noble Truths. trying to reach nirvana

founder of Maurya empire

1st notable empire in India

most celebrates Mauryan ruler. Ashoka the Great. strong advocate for Buddhism.

second and last major dynasty of the Classical Era. Golden Age for India.

an extinct species of human with a receding forehead and prominent brow ridges.

a hominid of a tall erect race of the Upper Paleolithic. classified as homo sapiens

Neolithic cities, one of the first cities

Sometime before 5000 BCE, a group of nomadic pastoralists called Sumerians migrated into Mesopotamia and created the civilization of Sumer.

yellowish brown alloy

The epic concerns the adventures of a real Sumerian kind names Gilgamesh. One of the first written stories.

first ruler of the Akkadian empire. Known for the conquest of many Sumerian city-states.

Fell to invaders.

Patriarch of Christianity, Judaism, and Muslim Religions.

A Persian people from what is now Iran invaded and took control of Mesopotamia. They built a new capital city called Babylon, so they became known as Babylonians.

282 laws carved into stone monuments, one of the first instances of laws being put into writing for everyone to see. It was built on the idea of "eye for an eye".

a strong hard magnetic silvery grey metals

Ruled for 30 years.

Rules of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses.

Persian ruler who divided land into provinces. Created satrap.

after overthrow of monarchy. reprsentive gov. Senate

questioning and made Socratic Method. put to death by Athenian Government

He created council of 500 and developed peoples court. statesmen, orator, and general.

student of Socrates. Best known dialogue was ¨The Republic¨

One of Platos students. The Golden Mean. Poetics

Spread greek culutre and conquered to India. died of fever

The Germanic Wars is a name given to a series of wars between the Romans and various Germanic tribes between 113 BC and 596 AD. The nature of these wars varied through time between Roman conquest, Germanic uprisings and later Germanic invasions in the Roman Empire that started in the late 2nd century BC.

Roman political and general who played role in fall of Roman republic and rise of Roman Empire

first Roman emperor

first Roman emperor

Roman Peace

Octavian started Roman Empire Pax Romana

leader of Christianity. Son of God

lead by Jesus. spread through Roman Empire

Roman Emperor known for public projects

made Christianity legal and official religion of Roman emperor

ruler when Roman Empire split

UNder DIocletian Rome split into two. Rome= western capital, Byzantium= eastern capital.

Ruler of the Huns

Invaders finally took over Rome.

From Mesopotamian people, they learned how to grow wheat and barley.

King Menes unites Lower and Upper Egypt and established Memphis as the capital city.

Pharaohs ruled.

Mentuhotep II took power.

The Hyksos occupied Egypt for a short period of time. Ramses the Great

Noted for architecture, city planning, math, calendar, and hieroglyphics. South east Mexico Guatemala and Belize.

East and central Mexico. About 17 huge basalt monuments of human heads have been found.

Elaborate temples

2nd civilization in Andes Mountain. Mysteriously vanishes probably ended in civil war and war. Built homes around their two homes

refered to as myan bible