Eurasian Empires (4)

The classical era in Eurasia witnessed the second wave of civilizations in the Mediterranean world, the middle east, india, and china. These distant civilizations did not come into contact, each established its own political system, cultural values, and ways of organizing society. There was a great exception when the Persian Empire and Greek civilization experienced a centuries long interactions and eventually clash. The roman empire and chinas imperial state became giant empires, shaping the lives of close to half the worlds population. In the indus valley flourished one of the largest first civilization. A new civilization based father east came along the Ganges River. The Aryans a pastoral indo-european people invaded and destroyed the Indus Valley civilization.