Top 10 Ancient Chinese Inventions
The ancient Chinese brought us many great innovations, including some that we take for granted in the modern world. Let's examine 10 of ancient China's greatest inventions.
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Akkadians, an ancient people who inhabited a region of lower Mesopotamia known as Akkad, so called from their capital city (Accad in the Bible; Agade in inscriptions). See more »
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Babylonia
Babylonia, an ancient country that occupied the area of southwestern Asia that is now Iraq.
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Akkadians, an ancient people who inhabited a region of lower Mesopotamia known as Akkad, so called from their capital city (Accad in the Bible; Agade in inscriptions).
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Ammonites, an ancient Semitic people often at war with the Hebrews. They lived east of the Jordan River.
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Amorites, an ancient Semitic people who moved from the desert into the Fertile Crescent about 2500 b.c.
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Persia, the name by which Iran was known until 1935. This article deals with the people, culture, and history of Persia up to that time.
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Aramaeans, or Arameans, an ancient Semitic people whose language, Aramaic, was for a long time the most widely spoken tongue in the Middle East.
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Aryans, a name given to a large group of ancient peoples of Asia. The name more correctly applies only to a few tribes who spoke an Indo-European language and called themselves aryas ("noble ones").
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Asia Minor, or Anatolia, the peninsula in western Asia that is now occupied by Turkey.
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Assyria, one of the great empires of the ancient world, located in western Asia. Assyria originally encompassed only the foothill region between the Tigris River and the Zagros Mountains (now northern Iraq).
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Babylonian Captivity, in Jewish history, the period of exile in Babylonia after Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 B.C.
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Canaanites, the ancient Semitic peoples who settled what is now Israel, Lebanon, and the coast of Syria.
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Chaldeans, an ancient Semitic people originally from the desert of Arabia. During the 11th century B.C., they began to settle in Babylonia at the head of the Persian Gulf.
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Elamites, an ancient people who inhabited a region of southwest Persia known as Elam (also called Susiana—from Susa, their capital city).
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Hittites, or Hatti, an ancient people who largely dominated Asia Minor from about 1800 to 1200 B.C.
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Hurrians, a people of the ancient Middle East. From the southern Caucasus they occupied the northern part of the Fertile Crescent about 2000 B.C.
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Indus Valley Civilization, an ancient civilization on the Indian subcontinent that existed from about 2300 B.C.
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Kassites, a people of ancient times who ruled Babylonia for more than 400 years. They probably came from what is now Iran.
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Lost Tribes, in Jewish history, members of the 10 tribes exiled from the northern kingdom of ancient Israel.
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Maccabees, the name of a family of Jewish patriots. They established the Maccabaean, or Hasmonaean, dynasty that ruled Judah (part of Palestine) during the second and first centuries B.C.
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