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- upper class left
- 605bc.
- middle kingdom
- 2055; Mentunotep-king of Thebes; loyalty returnes to pharaoh; amenemhet-visere-reorganized kingdom; nomarchs-less power
- invasion of Hyksos
- built new captial at Avaris; bronze age- introduction of better weapons
- new kingdom
- 1550; pharaoh loses pwer; army-vizers chose; beaurocracy aginst power; priesthood-gains wealth; amentep II- monothesim
- age of pericles
- 450bc. height of Athenian power and civilation; "golden age of greece:
- second intermediate period
- 1650bc.
- middle class left
- 597bc.
- acropolis
- hill
- arete
- excelence
- collapse of minoan civilzation
- invasion and pillage by mainland Mycenaens
- battle at salamis
- 480bc.; persian:Xerxes left-Mardonius left in charge; greeks-themistocles refuses to withdraw-defear persians
- middle class return
- 536bc.
- jerusalem destoryed
- 586bc.
- middle kingdom
- 2055bc.
- Cornith
- tyrant
- early dynastic period
- 3100bc.
- battle at thermopylae
- 480bc.; persians:led by Xerxes-won; greeks:leonidas of sparta held off troops
- annual food of nile river
- ancient egypt; most imp.; gradual and predictable; brough agriculture
- first intermediate period
- 2125bc.
- battle at plateae
- 479bc. persian:mardonius failed to win Athens over; greeks:largest ever assembled.
- agora
- meeting place
- greek colonization
- unique and fundemental; encompassed town; surronding countryside
- lower class return
- 445bc.
- old kingdom
- 2686; memphis- captial; nomes-42 distrates; vizer-highest ranking; Ma'at
- invasion of hittites
- mesop.; 1595; destoryes Babylon; beginning of 'dark age'
- new kingdom
- 1550bc.
- old kingdom
- 2686bc.
- isreal destoryed
- 722bc.
- tyrants
- rulers who seized power by force; disapperarance of king;
- lower class left
- 586bc.
- first egyptian intermediate period
- 2125; econmic declines; Pepi II-death of old kingdom; nomarchs-hedeaty position
- upper class return
- 458bc.