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What do the following have in common?

Loess, Nile flood

• Nutrients for the river valleys

Assyrians, Nubians, Alexander

• All had control of Egypt

Athens, Sparta, Sumer

• All city-states

Patricians, Aristocracy, Brahmin

• All at the top of the social ladder

Confucius, Laozi, Jesus

• All started belief systems

Buddhism, Christianity, Asceticism (besides the fact all are belief systems)

• All were responses to previous systems

Xiongnu, Huns, Herders

• All are pastoralists

Hittites, Macedonians, Persians

• All were located in or had control over Anatolia

1200BCEMycenaeans, Hittites, Egyptians

• All attacked by Sea-People

Alphabet, Sea-faring, Carthaginians

• Phoenicians

Bronze, Iron, Classical

• Ages

Hellespont, Bosporus, Dardanelles

• All water-ways between Europe and Asia

Hinduism, Greeks, Mesopotamians

• All Polytheistic

Germanic, Latin, Semitic

• Language Groups

Augustus, Cyrus, Qin

• All first emperors

Hittites, Aryans, Cavalry Warfare

• Pastoral nomads

Tool, democratization, near cities

• iron

Multiple leaders, Roman Republic, Sparta

• oligarchy

Terracing, flooding, irrigation

• Farming techniques

Aqueducts, 12 tables, plebeians

• Rome

Karma, Reincarnation, India

• Hinduism

Jainism, starvation, monasteries

• asceticism

Shang, Copper, Tin

• Bronze Age

Persepolis, Nineveh, Carthage

• Capitals

Monsoon, El Nino, Eruption at Thera

• Environmental occurrences

Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes

• Persian Rulers

The end!