First Early Civilizations: The First Ancient Civilization

In the first chapter we talked about the first early humans and how they went from underdeveloped civilizations or communities to becoming the first early civilizations. While in the second chapter a new age begins as the Bronze Age begins to transition into the Iron Age as the Middle Eastern culture and values became widely shared Amongst the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians which was known as the cosmopolitan era.
Which meant that lifestyle and cultures were shared in these civilizations where people such as the Amorites, Kassie’s, and the Chaldeans who migrated towards the center of the civilization began to adopt its language, social institutions. Religious and political beliefs. With the expansion of the late Bronze Age we begin to see the emergence of new civilizations such as the Minoans, Mycenaean’s and the Greeks which had all emerged from the Aegean Sea thus become known as the Aegean world.
However, these empires were built on the fact that they took from the technologies and cultural practices of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Yet before this the Assyrians rose to power while the other empires in the region
As the Phoenicians began to spread westward into the Mediterranean Sea the city Carthage became the most important city outside the Phoenician homeland which was ruled by merchant families and a very strong military especially it’s navy. Meanwhile the Assyrians began to fall in their quest for a Total Empire in which they began to destroy many older states displacing large numbers of people from their homeland. But the other states repelled the Assyrians and so the Assyrian empire collapses while fighting the Chaldeans and Medes in which the population of northern Mesopotamia falls way below its previous population rate so within this period of time the Assyrians or northern Mesopotamia had become completely