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New Kingdom of Egypt
➲ Weak
pharaoh's and power
struggles led to the fall of the
Middle Kingdom.
➲ Hyksos ruled Egypt from 1640
B.C.-1570 B.C.
➲ Warlike rulers began to restore
Egypt's power and overthrow the
Hyksos.
Queen Ahhotep
Kamose
Egypt's New Kingdom
➲ During
the New Kingdom, Egypt
becomes wealthier and more
powerful than ever.
➲ Advanced
weapons,archers,charioteers, and
infantry or foot soldiers.
➲ Strong leadership among the
pharaoh's
Strong Pharaoh's of the New
Kingdom
➲ Hatshepsut spent her reign
encouraged trade rather than war.
➲ Thutmose III was a warlike ruler
who successfully invaded
Palestine, Syria, and south into
Nubia.
➲ Rames II was a great builder and
signed a peace treaty with the
Hittites.
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Ramses II
Battle of Kadesh
Abu Simbel
New Kingdom Declines
➲ Egypt
was attacked by the “People
of the Sea” and the tribes of
Palestine and the Libyans from the
west.
➲ Egypt breaks into independent
kingdoms.
➲ Libyans ruled Egypt and adopts
their culture and way of life.
Kushites Conquer Egypt
➲ Egypt
enjoyed dominance of Nubia
and the Nubian kingdom of Kush
for about a thousand years.
➲ After the fall of the New Kingdom,
Kush becomes a regional power.
➲ Nubian kingdoms served as trade
corridors that linked Egypt to the
interior of Africa.
Kushite Influence and Conquest
➲ Egypt influences Nubians.
➲ Princes went to Egypt to learn
Egyptian customs.
➲ Piankhi unites the Nile Valley and
overthrows the Libyans.
➲ Begins the short lived twenty-fifth
Dynasty.
Piankhi
Golden Age and Decline
➲ Assyrians
push the Kushites out of
Egypt in 671 B.C.
➲ Kushite royal family settles in
Meroe.
➲ Significant rainfall and iron ore.
➲ Aksum overthrow the Kushites
around A.D. 350.
➲ Four centuries of prosparity.
Assyrians Military Machine
➲ Sophisticated
military organization,
state of the art weaponry, and
geography played an important
role in Assyrian success.
➲ Engineers designed pontoons or
floating structures used to support
a bridge.
➲ Showed no mercy in battle.
➲ War like people.
Assyrian Soldiers
Expanding Into an Empire and
Rule
➲ Assyrian
Kings defeated kings in
Syria, Palestine, and Babylon.
➲ Power extends into Egypt and
Anatolia.
➲ Chose their own rulers or
supported those who supported
them.
➲ Conquered territories had to pay
Assyrian Culture
➲ Sennacherib
establishes Nineveh
as the Assyrian capital.
➲ One of the largest cities in the
world during this time
➲ Military campaigns and hunting
lions were two popular artistic
subjects.
➲ One of the largest ancient libraries
thanks to Ashurbanipal.
Nineveh
Sennacherib
Ashurbanipal
Fall of the Assyrians
➲ Assyrian
power had spread too
thin.
➲ Cruelty towards conquered people
earned them many enemies.
➲ Weak leadership.
➲ Combined armies, led by the
Medes and Chaldeans burn and
level Nineveh.
Babylon Restored Under
Chaldeans
➲ Chaldeans make Babylon the
center of their empire1,000 years
after Hammurabi.
➲ Was destroyed by Sennacherib.
➲ Babylon restored by
Nebuchadnezzar.
➲ Hanging Gardens and Seven Tier
Ziggurat.
➲ Conquered by the Persians.
Hanging Gardens
Seven Tier
Ziggurat
Rise of Persians
➲ Home
of the Persians had rich
farmland and natural resources.
➲ Dozens of kingdoms rule, but two,
Meades in the north and Persians
in the south.
➲ Cyrus defeats the Meades and
extends Persia power into Anatolia
and the Fertile Crescent
Persian Empire Cyrus the Great's
Tomb
Persian Rule
➲ Cyrus
was known for his kindness
toward conquered people. Great
military leader, also.
➲ His son, Cambyses, extended
Persian power into Egypt. Was no
like his father.
➲ Darius extends power into modern
Afghanistan and into the River
Valleys of India.
Cambyses
Darius
Darius Rule
➲ Darius was a great conqueror and
administrative ruler.
➲ Divided empire into twenty
provinces.
➲ Let people keep their way of life.
➲ Installed his own governors,
satraps, tax collectors and sent out
inspectors called the “eyes and
ears.”
➲ Royal roads and coined money.
Royal Road Route
Money
Coined
Persian Religion
➲ Zoroaster was a religious prophet
who taught that two spiritual armies
were fighting for possession of a
person's soul. You choose.
➲ Avesta is the holy book.
➲ Ahura Mazda- The god of truth and
light.
➲ Ahriman- The god of evil and
darkness.
Zooroaster
Avesta
Ahura Mazda
Ahriman
Philosophy and Social Order
➲ China's
values of social order,
harmony, and respect for authority
were put aside toward the end of
the Zhou.
➲ Confucius believed these values
could be restored through our
relationships.
➲ Believed in governing wisely.
Confucius Beliefs and Ideas of
Government
➲ Five relationships- Ruler/subject,
father/son, husband/wife, older
brother/younger brother,
friend/friend.
➲ Respect for parents/elders- filial
piety.
➲ Laid the groundwork for
bureaucracy. Stressed education.
Confucius
Analects
Daoism
➲ Created by Laozi, stressed that a
natural force called Dao, or the
way, guides all things.
➲ All creatures, except humans,
follow Dao. Natural order
important.
➲ Argue about pointless questions
such as right or wrong/good and
bad manners.
➲ Government should leave people
Laozi
Legalism
➲ Created by Hanfeizi andSi.
➲ Highly efficient and powerful
government is the key to social
order.
➲ Harsh punishment and rich reward.
➲ Thinkers ideas should be
controlled by the government.
Hanfeizi
Li Si
I Ching Yin and Yang
➲ Iching
is a book of oracles that
answers ethical problems by
throwing coins and interpreting the
results.
➲ Yin and Yang are two powers that
represent the natural rhythm of life
and compliment each other.
➲ Acupuncture helps to restore this
I Ching
Yin and Yang
Qin Dynasty
➲ Replaced
the Zhou Dynasty
around the third century B.C.
➲ Employed Legalist ideas.
➲ Ruled by Shi Huangdi.
➲ Halted internal battles and
opposition to his rule.
➲ Doubles China size.
Rule of Shi Huangdi
➲ Seized the land of noble families.
➲ Strengthen the truck and weaken
the branches.
➲ Divides China into thirty-six
districts.
➲ Appoints his officials to run the
districts.
➲ Useless books were to be
destroyed
Shi Hunagdi's Programs
➲ Builds
a highway network
stretching 4,000 miles.
➲ Set standards for writing, law, and
currency.
➲ Irrigation projects.
➲ Starts construction on the Great
Wall of China.
Shi Huangdi
Great Wall of China
Fall of the Qin Dynasty
➲ Under
Shi Huangdi, China was an
autocracy.
➲ Forced labor and harsh treatment.
➲ Peasants rebelled against Shi
Huangdi's son. Weak ruker.
➲ Han Dynasty takes control of China
for 400 years.
Terra Cotta Soldiers