The goal was to become a junzi (gentleman, sage); and this goal was achievable by any man, regardless of birth.
the regardless of birth was definitely a big pulling point for most men in this area being most were not born to what would have been considered a worthy family in this time.
he Persian crown prince, Xerxes I, led about 200,000 troops to Greece in 480 BCE.
the persian army was a deadly force I cant imagine what it was like when a part of there army came pulling up to your town.
Ironically, this focus on lifelong military service for elite men
Even with all the great military powers that have walk the earth since spartans they still will always be the most powerful in there time even though they were a small force compared to there opponent
After the collapse, not all of the civilizations that had existed in the Bronze Age ceased to exist. As I mentioned previously, several places didn't even have a collapse at all; so cultures in China, India, and the Americas continued growing and changing
With these civilization still standing strong they had a jump on the new age pushing them to be leaders for the next age to come.
Finally, the first city in the Americas (that we know of) grew about 5,100 years ago, about ten miles from the Pacific Ocean in what is now Peru
I honestly had no idea what the first city of the americas would be and i would not have guessed it to be in the location of peru.
ilk production was a state-controlled industry and there were severe penalties including execution for leaking information about the process.
silk is crazy for the amount of money and control china made off an animal is crazy it shows how the right materials and thinking can make you endless amounts of profit.
While Hierakonpolis was becoming a significant city, an 8,000 to 9,000 year long period known as the African Humid Period or "Green Sahara" was just beginning to come to an end.
i get that the world is always changing when it comes tto temperatures in areas but when you this of a dessert that is really all you think that landscape ever could have been.
Villages, then towns, and finally cities allowed populations to boom, so it could be very reasonably argued that these innovations increased the number of people who could live in a particular region.
this allowed for growth in people and specialty work which greatened craftsman ship and allowed us to prosper more than ever before.
The war featured the use of bronze arms and armor as well as bronze chariots, which were well-known in the Hittite empire.
This makes me imagine what the fear this army could have made you feel as you watch them approach with shiny bronze chariots and armour. ( yes I know that light doesn't shine of bronze as well as it does silver but when polished like I assumed it was it shines pretty well).
he earliest Egyptian texts were carved on the interior walls of pyramids and consist of spells, hymns, and rituals designed to protect deceased rulers on their journey into the afterlife.
This was interesting to me because it is a common type of hieroglyphic you see and to know what the basic of the text is, is cool to know.
Chinese writing is typically described as beginning with Oracle Bones that included short inscriptions used for divinatory purposes, beginning about 3,600 years ago
this was interesting to me for a couple different reasons the first being i needed to look up the word divinatory which i figured out is essentially predicting the future and the other reason is for how long the chines lead in history that it would only be since 3600 years ago was surprising to me.
Rotating crops and using fields year-round allowed Mohenjo-Daro to grow to about 60,000 and Harappa to reach 40,000 by about 4,500 years ago. Several other less-well-known cities may have reached similar sizes.
knowing that thy need to rotate crops to have plentiful harvest is crazy we know now today that it deals with having to put nitrogen and other things back it the soil from crops that rob it like corn.
ron, which would later become the basis of an entirely new economy, was already in use in the Near East and Anatolia; though its use was limited to small, decorative items. There are some small daggers of meteoric iron in Hittite graves in in the tomb of Tutankhamun (3,325 years ago),
it is crazy to think that iron has held a place over 3000 years ago with it still being very prominent today and a total game changer when it was first able to be mass mined and produced.