CCOT 1500 BCE to 1 CE First Civs to Classical Civs
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Continuities & Changes over Time
After the First
Civilizations…
By the 600s BCE new civilizations were on the rise.
This new period of human history (until 600 CE) is called the CLASSICAL
PERIOD.
By about 1000 BCE, many of the First Civilizations
were in decline.
Monarchs continued to rule most of the new civilizations
PatriarchyA wide gap between the small number
of elite and everyone elseThe practice of slaverySocial Classes and Economic
structures
What Stayed the Same?
Population grew more rapidlyThe size of the states or empires grew (later civs were much larger than Mesopotamian city-states or the Egyptian Empire)
New philosophical and religious traditions (Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity)
What Changed?
Technological innovations to help humans manipulate the environment For example: China-bellows, loom, silk making,
wheelbarrow, harness, crossbow, iron castingIndia-sugar, cottonRome-aqueducts, roads)
Emergence of more elaborate, widespread, & dense networks of exchange & communication--especially Indian Ocean trade networks & the Silk Road
What Changed?
Persia in the Middle EastGreek Civilization and then the Roman Empire along the Mediterranean
Qin & Han Dynasties in China
Mauryan & Gupta Empires in India
The Classical Civilizations (600 B.C.E to 600 C.E.)