Era of small states
...on an Akkadian ruler conquered Sumer and went on to develop an empire that went from the Persian Gulf all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. The third period was the Neo Sumerian period 2100 thru 2000 B.C. this was a period where prosperity was restored by the lugals of the third dynasty of Ur. Local officials closely watched the temples that were formally dominated by cities. All churches Became an arm of the state and the high priests were state appointees. The economy that Sargon worked so hard for came to a halt. The Sumerians were the people who laid the foundation of math, invention of writing; they also created the potter’s wheel, glass, cast in bronze, and the sailing boat. Mountain people overthrew Mesopotamia and the Neo Sumerian ruled until 2000B.C.E. We are still not exactly sure why the Elamites took over and the Sumerians merged with other people. The second civilization started in northeast Africa near the Nile River known as the Egyptian civilization in 3000 B.C. The people of Egypt were able to benefit from the people of Mesopotamia but the Egyptian people had their own culture and customs. The contributions were the Neolithic villagers had begun to build dikes and canal networks to control the Nile for irrigation by 4000 B.C. The next ancient civilization that I will analyze is China. Chinas newly discovered sites pushed back the Neolithic age to 6500 B.C. Chinas Neolithic culture cultivated millet and domesticated the pig all of this originated independently from the Far East. China had numerous contributions that they can take credit for they were the first to have written text with a writing system employing nearly 5000 characters. The Shang people of china developed bronze metallurgy. It all started in 1700 B.C. when shang ruled. In 1027 B.C. shang succumbed the chou. In 700 B.C. barbarians drove Chou from their ancestral center to new homes farther east in honan, however the Chou dynasty did not end until 256 B.C. They fought until one tribe took over the chin from which the country was to get its name. The final civilization that I will analyze is India. The history of India started about 2500 B.C. this was a civilization that had emerged earlier along the Tigris-Euphrates and the Nile rivers appeared along the Indus river in India. India had several contributions that they too can take credit for they started Irrigation farming with wheat and barley, which were their chief crops; they collected these grains and stored them into granaries. India started to decline in and about 2000 B.C. there is no actual facts how or why India declined. There are some peoples that believe that the Aryans may have killed its inhabitants and burning the cities around the area. The Era of Small States Phoenicians is the name that they gave to the Canaanites who went along the Mediterranean coast of Syria, what is called today Lebanon. By the eleventh century B.C. the Phoenicians had turned their interest to the sea. This is where they had become the greatest traders, shipbuilders, navigators, and colonizers before the Greeks. Although the Phoenicians became essential traders they also manufactured goods like woven cloth dyed with purple dye, which they found along their coasts. Phoenicians were also very good with their hands they made furniture, metalware, glassware and jewelry. They made one of the greatest contributions; the creation of the alphabet. With the Babylonian sexagesimal system eventually both of these contributions were carried westward. Phoenician cities never came together to form a small state and at the end of the last half of the eighth century B.C. the Assyrians conquered all but Tyre. The Hebrew was closely related to the Arameans who lived in Syria just east of Lebanon. The Arame...