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  • River valley civilization
  • Classical civilization

RIVER VALLEYS

  • Indus River-India
  • Nile river-Egypt
  • Yellow river-China
  • Tigris & Euphrates Rivers-Mesopotamia

GREECE GOVERNMENT

  • Republic-ruled by the people
  • Monarchy-ruled by one person (king/queen)
  • Theocracy-religion ruler (thought to be a god)
  • Oligarchy-ruled by the few (small group)

FIRST WRITTEN LAW

  • Hammurabi's Code-
  • Justianine's Code
  • Their impact on the other empires
  • Created structure and a code or rules to live by

EDICT OF MILAN

  • Declares christianity legal
  • Rome made official center for church
  • Spread by Apostles Peter and Paul
  • Constantine was the emperor who made christianity legal

APOSTLES

  • Peter-Simon Peter was the first bishop of Rome
  • Paul-spread gospel, was able to do this b/c he was a law and Roman citizen
  • Major reason why Christianity spread

RELIGIONS-FOUNDERS

  • Christianity- Jesus
  • Confucianism- by Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)
  • Dadoism- Lao tzu
  • Buddhism- sidhartha Gautam Buddha
  • Hinduism- group of people

RELIGIONS-CHARACTERISTICS

  • Christianity-monotheistic
  • Confucianism-social order
  • Daoism-addresses order and harmony
  • Buddhism-Polytheistic
  • Hinduism-Polytheistic

GREECE

  • Est. democracy
  • Alexander the Great
  • Hellenistic Era
  • Public trial-Socrates

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

  • From Macedonia
  • Taught by Aristotle
  • Created one of the largest empires in the ancient world

HELLENISTIC ERA

  • Period of Ancient Greeks
  • Greek cultural influence at its height
  • Alexander was the reason why Greek culture spread

ROME

  • Religion & culture borrowed from Greece
  • Divided society patrician & plebeians
  • 12 tables created
  • Architecture: coliseum, creation of domes
  • Roman law becomes basis for western world

PERSIA

  • Developed royal road
  • Metal coins
  • Zoroastrian-monotheistic

INDIA

  • Buddhism
  • Gupta empire
  • Maryann empire
  • India's Golden Age
  • Astronomy, medicine, developed zero, decimal

WOMEN & CHILDREN

  • Lack of power
  • Sparta boys sent to military school
  • Roman women: nearly social equals

SCIENTIST

  • Archimedes-mathematician & physicals
  • Pythagoras-pythagorean Therom
  • Both from Greece