Notes 20-29

• Steppes are a vast semiarid grasslands or plains.  
• between 4000 and 1000 B.C they moved as immigrants, raiders and invaders into territories stretched from western Europe to India
• Around 3800 B.C steppes, used horses for meat and hide
• 3500 B.C they had harnessed it  to earliest known wheeled vehicles

•  2500 bc. Indo- European mirgrated grew faster
• 1600 bc hittite kings won the copetition and dominated
• 2200 bc had a good idea to have local administrators who held power
• 1800 bc Egypitans believed that every deceased person had to stand before Osiris
• hieroglyphs was the earliest writing
• 700 bc demotic script csame to use
• 3100 bc equipped then with a mask 
• 2500bc adopted the sail boat
• pyramids are masterpieces that were in Egypt 
• 1100 bc ended new kingdom