ACS 210 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Summary
17 Mar 2018
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Cultural development in the centuries immediately following the bronze age was characterized by the adaption to iron as cutting-edge technology for weapons and tools. The leading societies of the early iron age were the phoenicians, the assyrians, the. Neo-babylonians, the persians, and the united kingdom of israel. The phoenicians (1100-600 bce) are credited with the reconstruction of. Mediterranean trade lines and with devising a workable alphabet of 22 letters, each combining a mnemonic device with a designated phonetic sound. The armies of the assyrian empire (1000-612 bce) conquered the entire near easy by 660 bce. Assyrian culture furnished an important bridge between the late bronze and the iron ages. 640-331 bce) comprised an array of iranian peoples in iran, Drawing on this manpower, darius i (521-486 bce) consolidated an empire extending from thrace and the danube river in the west to the indus river and the borders of china in the east.
