Todays Warm Up Answer in your notes What

Today’s Warm Up • Answer in your notes: • What do you visualize when you think of an “empire”? • Turn in your homework! – Early Writing Analysis

Dawn of the Empires Period 2 c. 600 B. C. E. to c. 600 C. E.

Periodization c. 600 B. C. E. to c. 600 C. E. • Why are these dates clumped together? – Development, codification, & spread of major world religions – Rise and fall of the world’s earliest empires – Emergence of transregional networks of communication and trade

Defining “Empire” • Simply put, the conquest of one people by another • Usually larger, more aggressive (but not always) states – those that conquer, rule, and extract resources from others

Imperial Features • Effective administration – Legal System – Communication – Transportation – Monetary System • Cultural diffusion – many different peoples under single, centralized rule

Two Forms of Imperial Rule • Hegemony: Subjects willingly accept dominance because they stand to benefit • Dominance: Rule imposed by military force… Resistance common • Which do you think imperial powers preferred and why? • Which do you think was more common?

Common Problems • Treatment of the conquered? • Direct rule? • How do we extract wealth from the conquered while maintaining order? • Every empire eventually failed…

Fall of Empires • • • Poor leadership Overextension of administration Economic collapse Doubts over the ideology Military defeat

The Earliest Empires: Mesopotamia & the Fertile Crescent • C. 2360 -2230 BCE • Started as independent citystates constantly warring • Sargon eventually defeated and unified these citystates and created Akkadian Empire

Waves of Invaders • Babylonians Hittites Assyrians

Timeline Activity: The First Empires! • Create a timeline outlining the rise and fall of the world’s first empires: – Akkadian – Babylonian – Hittites – Assyrians – Egypt • May be completed electronically but not required

Requirements For each empire, include the following: • Important dates, leaders, etc. • Preconditions for the empire’s rise (i. e. rivalries, lack of unity, adequate military resources, etc. ) • Method of Domination – hegemony or dominance? • Major rewards of imperialism (i. e. economic rewards) • Reason for the empires fall

The BIG Idea… Think, Ink, Share • Define “empire” and briefly describe the chief characteristics generally shared by empires. • Choose one of the early empires we discussed today and indicate the degree to which it shares the characteristics you noted.

Homework • Finish your timelines and stay on top of your reading! We’re now on Chapter 5… • Study for your quiz covering Period 1: Foundations – Block 2 A: Tuesday, 9/17 – Block 2 B: Wednesday, 9/18