ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cyrus Cylinder, Constitutional Monarchy, Gautama Buddha

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Thomas Douglas

Document Summary

5th century bc (2500 years ago) there are many birthplaces of civilization. Persians: conquering greece, set up roads for trade (1st postal system, had religious tolerance throughout the empire (1st to document this fact) Cyrus cylinder document guarantees religious tolerance: gave money to other religious groups to build temples and celebrate events. Republics: athens known as birthplace of democracy but other places have similar systems, india 12 republics (ex: vajjian and videhan republic) and was home to. Constitutional monarchies (kalinga republic: afghanistan had at least one republic. Contemporaries (alive at same time): socrates greece, mahavira founder of jainism (india, siddhartha gautama founder of buddhism (india, confucius china. Roman empire: capital eventually became shared by two cities. Constantinople eastern capital: in 476 ad, conquered by germanic tribes ( barbarians ) Constantinople wasn"t and continued for 100 years (west fell, east stayed) Western half of roman empire collapsed and entered dark ages (medieval period)