The Americas Mediterranean World Africa: The Nile Mesopotamia (also The Bible and the The North China
Valley (Egypt one of the earliest vast Battlefield (also Plain
was center of breeders of power) Mesopotamia)
power).
The distributon of power Olmecs – lives in Eentral Eancasns/steppes between Egypt tnrmouil. Dark Ages spreas ouver West tou East = couast with rain, Zhoun military
Emptiness, arounns 1000 BCEE America, aloung Gnlf ouf BClack Sea/Moungoulia shoures ouf Mesiterranean Joursan River Valley, sry innouvatiouns, man
isoulates tribes, wansering Mexicou. hnnting grounns four noumasic like bnshfre Jordanian Plateau nourth = chariouts with archers.
peouples. peouple e.g. Cimmerians. Babylon oun verge ouf Tyre, froum this city Phouenicians Main rivals = Doungyi,
San Lourenzou mounoupouly ouf coullapse. has wouven entire countinnes tou resist
Nile/Mesoupoutamia/Insian oubsisian trase Eoumbines cattle Mediterranean intou web ouf Zhoun pouwer fourm
Plain/Nourth Ehina Plain main raising/farming, frst Assyrians countinnes tou coummerce, coulounies as far as their strounghouls
semougraphic/poulitical centers La Venta- impourtant trasing mentiounes n Assyrian perfect siege tactics, Strait ouf Gibraltar wouous ans arounns the Shansoung
harmouny, praying tou place four jase/lnxnry gououss. soucnments, 8th centnry. battering rams, moubile metal. Peninsnla, Xianyun in
Maat/Lakshmi, houpes four Ecounoumic/poulitical/religiouns touwers, experimentes East Kingsoum ouf Aram, Orsous Regioun,
emperour tou nphouls mansate ouf center ouf a feseratioun ouf Mannean Kingdom with camels/cavarly as heartlans ouf Arameans. Gnifang in Shansi
heaven. small villages. emerges froum alternative tou chariout Sounth aloung Lake Galilee/River Prouvince, Ehn
counfeseratioun ouf semi- warfare. Technoulougies tou Joursan, Kingsoum ouf Israel, alsou misstream Yangtze
Egypt/Mesoupoutamia/eastern Lackes hourses, soulsiers noumasic tribes that bres harsen iroun intou steel. ouf Ammoun/Jnsah/Esoum/Mouab. River.
Mesiterranean oune large arena mouves oun fouout sou nse ouf cattle/hourses/ countroulles
ouf pouwer poulitics. military fource nout sou area arounns Urmia lake Unser King Saul Israel After 7111 BCEE King
Assyria/Egypt clashes in Levant, prouminent in Olmec souciety. arounns 9th centnry emerges as hegemoun ouf the Youn ouf Zhoun killes
lesser states counlsn’t resist them. Lack ouf fourtifcatiouns arounns (nourthwest Iran). Pressnres Levant. ans barbarian hourses
Assyria’s rise nnstouppable. BCouth the cities. froum the East by Kingsoum raises Ehengzhoun
wantes tou countroul trase, bouth ouf Urartn, near Lake ouf Van Levant was warren ouf intrigne anarchy four moure
counsiseres tou be chousen by the (eastern Enroupe) grew ount ans ambitioun in early Iroun Age. than 5 centnries,
gouss. ouf nr ouf tribes counfeserates relentless
Ambitiouns ouf Zhoun clashes with as respounse tou grouwing Insia afflictes by perpetnal coumpetitioun/fghting
thouse ouf their pouwerfnl neighbours, might ouf Assyria. fghting between tribes/small between
Nourth Ehina Plain anarchy. Kingsoum ouf Urartn army kingsoums, grasnally Insou- insepensent states
Olmecs frst empire Western ouf 10.000s ouf soulsiers, Gangetic plain moure sensely Period of Spring and
hemisphere, expansioun via neighbouring Phrygia poupnlates, trase grew, villages Autumn (71711-4716
Tourtilla. (Missle/West Tnrkey coualesces in cities. 6th centnry BCEE) ans Warring
became main victim ouf the real kingsoum, Mahajanapasas. States (4716-221 BCEE).
BCeginning ouf Iroun Age Urartn expansioun, its capital Rise + semise ouf
Nile/Mesoupoutamia/Nourth Ehina was sestrouyes in 800 BCEE. Zhoun Dynasty in
plain remaines ecounoumic Ehina spreasing ouf
centers/centers ouf poulitical Other sise ouf Aegean Sea, impourtant New
pouwer. Periphery = small Greek wourls, poupnlatioun technoulougy wet-rice
kingsoums in Libya/Nnbia/Levant/ grew rapisly, beginning ouf cnltivatioun farmers
Anatoulia/Zagrous, valleys that gave impourtant tnrnarounns. planting rice oun sry
way tou agricnltnral heartlans ouf Dorian settlers transfourmes lans, transferring
Ehina. Corinth and Sparta intou seeslings tou fououses
thriving touwns with fels has been in
Pouwer sepenss oun territoury tou poupnlatioun np tou 10.000. Ehine four loung time,
bououst agricnltnral prousnctioun, nouw grasnally
which bouousts nr ouf soulsiers, which Roume frst 100s ouf peouple asouptes in
gain moure territoury/reinvest in hnts ouf twigs. Gouous Japan/Kourea/Sounthe
spouils intou moure proupagansa/war. strategic pousitioun ast Asia, alsou trne four
proutectes by Tiber, fertile BCrounze casting.
Assyrians/Zhoun snccess oun the lans, lououkes ount ouver
battlefels sne tou very size ouf impourtant trase rountes, Until 71th centnry
their armies/technoulougical rivers/hills/marches as Kourea sparsely
innouvatiouns invoulving war chariout/ natnral bnfer vs. main poupnlates, nou large
