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- Ice Age
- The first people came tot he Americas over the Bering Land Bridge during this part of the Paleolithic Era
- Zhou Dynasty
- This dynasty ruled China using the Feudal system
- Qin Dynasty
- These Chinese legalists connected the existing walls to build the Great Wall of China
- Shang Dynasty
- When this Chinese government fell the Zhou gained the "Mandate of Heaven"
- Yellow River (China)
- United by a shared written language even though they spoke different languages
- Hittite
- These Indo-Europeans took over the Anatolia Peninsula using iron and chariots
- Aryans
- These Indo-Europeans took over the Indus Valley
- Sumerian
- This was one of the earliest civilizations int he world and it grew in Mesopotamia
- Yellow River (China)
- These were the first people to trade with coins
- Age of Empire
- When kingdoms expanded territory to take over parts of multiple continents of many regions of a continent
- Bronze Age
- This first happened in Mesopotamia where Sumerians made weapons and armor out of metal
- Egyptian
- The people believed in the afterlife and built tombs for their pharaohs
- Babylonian
- These were the first people to record written laws that we have found
- Han Dynasty
- This dynasty expanded Chinese power using a very strong bureaucracy and civil service to include territory along the Silk Road
- Phoenician
- Responsible for the creation of the alphabet
- Harappan
- These people built the best laid out cities of the early civilizations
- Phoenician
- These people set up commercial outposts all over the Mediterranean Sea for trade
- Paleolithic Era
- Many different hominids lived during this time period
- Egyptian
- The people depending heavily on the Nile River
- Neolithic Era
- This led to a huge growth of human population as food supplies became more steady