Empires: Timeline 2 (C. 100 BCE To 1300 CE)
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1. The world of trade and early expansion
- By the sixth century BCE, Iranians controlled major parts of the Assyrian empire.
- Trade networks developed overland and along the Mediterranean coasts.
- Greek city-states and their colonies benefited from this trade growth.
2. Alexander and the Hellenised world
- Alexander, ruler of the kingdom of Macedon, undertook military campaigns and conquered parts of North Africa, West Asia, and Iran, reaching up to the Beas.
- Alexander's soldiers refused to go further east at the Beas.
- After the conquests, the region became Hellenised and Greek became a well-known language.
3. Rome and the transformation into an empire
- Rome's military forces established control over North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean from the second century BCE.
- At that time, Rome was a republic.
- In the middle of the first century BCE, under Julius Caesar, the Roman Empire was extended to present-day Britain and Germany.
4. Christianity, Islam, and large empires
- Christianity originated in Palestine in the early first century CE.
- Jesus Christ lived in Judaea, a province of the Roman Empire.
- Christianity was introduced in Axum in 330 CE.
Key Concepts
Central concept: Empires across continents and the movement of peoples, ideas, religions, trade, and power from c. 100 BCE to 1300 CE
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