Little history of the world

From earlier notes:

• Egyptian empire is longest lasting in history, and they emphasized maintaining old customs
  • Agonaden tried to bring about progress and open mindedness. And the people went back to the old asap
• Babylonians thought planets were gods by they (unlike other stars) moved around the sky. They named days of the week after these 7 gods (sun, moon, Saturn)
• Jews, between Egypt and Babylon, stood out for their belief in one God, which made them persevere as they were conquered by each in turn
• Phoenicians were merchants who invented 26 letter language to do more writing than could be done with hieroglyph or cunograpby
• Greeks sailed so were exposed to new ideas and so looked for progress not old customs, so history sped up