ECO 321 Lecture 4: Rise and Fall of World Empires 4
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The first major empire (3500 bce 760 bce: advanced agriculture, social and political hierarchies, advanced technology. What causes the rise of the egyptian empire: the nile. Was used for irrigation, so it helped grow food. Engineers built enormous canals that could be used for transporting goods and people the first trade ports: religion. Divineness of the pharaohs being linked to the gods, which made people want to worship and follow them. Populations are growing in the major cities, so they need to get more resources. This makes them try to get more territory from neighbouring lands. What influences them: the will of their pharaohs. Religion: need of new resources, need to have structures that represent power. Where did they get their culture and their religion: from the pharaohs. Engineering an empire: 3000 bc a huge flood wipes out low-lying villages as it fills up the nile, me(cid:373)phis: eg(cid:455)pt"s first capital cit(cid:455)
