Ancient World History Maps

BRONZE AGE 3000-1000BC (Turkey)

PERISA/  

7000BC 1st City (1st City No Organized Gov or Religion, Later Hittite Empire in 1600BC begin using iron)

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2

Minoans (Crete) 2000BC

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r  a   q    )  

2200BC 1800-1200BC 4 Israelites (Monotheism + Moral Code)

1st Meso 2 Empire (Expanded Trade + Tech: Writing)

(wealth through trade)

1

3000BC Unified Egyptian Empire + Maat Moral Code

3 1800BC 2nd Meso Empire

 Area of Israel Israel in ancient maps is called by the ancient word for the region:  Palestine. This was an ancient  political act by the  Romans, not a modern political act.

(Hammurabi’s Law Code)

1 3000BC City States (1st Civ: Rival City Nations: Irrigation + Polytheism)

modern political act.

Upper Left: Persian Empire, Upper Left: Ancient Left: Ancient Greece Bottom Left: Roman Empire, Bottom Right: Silk Roads Common Keywords: Anatolia/Asia Keywords: Anatolia/Asia Minor =Turkey =Turkey Region Mesopotamia/Near East: Iraq Region, Far East=China Mycenae/Peloponnesus=Greek Mycenae/Peloponnesus=G reek Region (Hellenic=Greek) Canaan/Levant/Ancient Palestine=Israel/Palestine Region

BRONZE AGE Sumer/Akkad Babylon*

Assyrians*    T    SHittites*    AIRON AGE    E Neo-Assyrians  Neo-Babylonians    EAXIAL AGE (CLASSICAL)    L    DPersians (Achaemenid) Alexander the Great (Seleucid)    DPRE-MODERN (POST-CLASSICAL)    I    MParthian (Arsacid) Sasanian (Neo-Persian) Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate

BRONZE AGE Old Kingdom* Middle Kingdom  New Kingdom* Kingdom* IRON AGE  Neo-Assyrians  Neo-Assyria ns

   T  Neo-Babylonians  Neo-Babyloni ans    PAXIAL AGE (CLASSICAL)    Y (Achaemenid)    GPersians (Achaemenid)    EAlexander the Great PRE-MODERN (POST-CLASSICAL) Ptolemaic (Greek) Sasanian (Neo-Persian)

Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate

BRONZE AGE

   N Minoan*    A    EMycenaean*    NIRON AGE    A Greek Dark Ages    R    RAXIAL AGE (CLASSICAL)    E    T (Athens+Sparta)    IGreek    D Alexander the Great (Macedonian)    E PRE-MODERN (POST-CLASSICAL)    M Roman Empire