So it lasted roughly 500 years. 47. Kingdom of Armenia Artaxias founded an independent Armenian Kingdom in 190 BC. This was a kingdom that lasted from 190 BC until 252 AD. For the most part, it was a buffer zone between Rome and Persia. In 252 AD, the Sassanid Persians conquered ...
These 800-plus statues, most of which face away from the sea, were carved from volcanic ash by the Rapa Nui people somewhere between 400 and 1500 AD. Likely created using rudimentary basalt stone picks, each of these enormous monolithic statues would have taken close to a year to complete. ...
Aryans and Vedic culture (1500-500 BC) Ancient India was conquered by the Aryans (about 1500 BC). The actual chronology is the subject of considerable scholarly dispute. The Aryans were a nomadic people from from Central Asia. The fact that there are considerable similarities between Sandcript...
4) In addition, Chinese culture stresses the social rather than the individual life of human beings, thus emphasizing, as we will see in our discussion of Confucianism, the importance of relations between members of a family or between subject and king. 5) Finally, again as we shall see, t...
Olmec lived in this area between 1500 B.C. and 100 A.D. Olmec Area Characteristic Traits Building of clay pyramids and temple mounds Particular sculptural style weeping or snarling jaguar/human infant were-jaguar colossal heads basalt monuments ...
Located on the south coast, began in 100 BC and was greatly influenced by Chavin and Paracoa, but it reached its height between the 3rd and 9th centuries AD. It was militaristic and aristocratic, with a strong social class structure. They built underground acqueducts to bring water from the...