Summary of World History

Summary of World History

• The Code of Hammurabi The code of Hammurabi was the only one of many law codes that Mesopotamian societies produced, probably because in the culture rulers considered divine. From this civil law codes separate from religious regulations was necessary to govern human behavior. Hammurabis code seem unfair and unjust. It depended on different rights, responsibilities, and punishment depending on gender, class, and whether a person was enslaved or free.
• Philosophy in China Of the four great revolutions in the first millennium the Chinese was closer to the Greek than to the Indian religious transformations or to Judaic monotheism. In China it was concerned with social and political issues and sought to teach human beings how to live together and with different races. Confucianism became Chinas official philosophy in the second century. Some of the other philosophies were Daoism and Legalism.
• Alexander the Great Alexander was the King of Macedonia and Conqueror of the Persian Empire. Since birth Alexander was raised to become king of Macedonia. He would become king at a early age due to his father being assassinated. Alexander was known to be a great leader because of the vision he had. Alexander died at the age of thirty three, from an illness that got worse by the day.
• India and South Asia The First Indian Empire was in 321-185 B.C.E. The Mauryans created the first true empire in India. They used conquest, treaties, and possibly marriage to gain territory. The Third Mauryan ruler was Ashoka who served as a universal model of enlightened rule. The Mauryan Empire used different cultures to help influence theirs. Some where from the Persians and the Greeks.
• African Peoples Archaeologist revealed that there were a lot of migrations of people across the continent from the earliest days of African History with widespread cross cultural influences. There are many types of physiologies are visible in Africa. Migrations and cultural exchanges are not dependent...

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