history disssion
In what we call Early Antiquity, demographic change and the rapid creation of new metropolitan centres applied pressure to the international relations system of the known world. The Indians had to establish a working relationship with the Chinese and with the Persians. The Chinese had to establish relations with the people of Central Asia and Mongolia. The empires of the Near Eastern cluster were confronted with the colonization of people migrating from the desert. Greeks, Phoenicians and others had to defend their new trade interests. (500 words, +/- 50).