Tuesday, February 5, 2008

rulers



Rulers,
Certain events happened in these ancient times which show's an advance of it people which, in turn, show the beginning of civilization. The writing of laws for one, which, had been passed down orally in the passed. In Egypt before they wrote the law down it was passed by mouth. "the law of the land is the mouth of the Pharaoh". The laws of egypt where written down between 1575-1085 B.C.E. (New Kingdom). Similar to the Mesopotamia's who wrote their laws down on slate of Hammurabi (more later) Other aspects of a growing civilization were buildings of great town's, city's, countries, and empires. The first to do this was Sargon I, who around the year 2350 B.C.E. created the worlds first empire, by consolidating groups of people with different language under his control. Other things attributed toward civilization around the world, like China, who put in place an I Q test for it's government way before the second century B.C.E. With the aryans taking over the Indus valley, changing it from a tribe area to governed area.

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