Hominids Earliest Humans
Paleolithic Old Stone Age
Hunters & Gatherers
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution 9,000 B.C.E.
Surplus Irrigation Food Surplus Civilization
City-State Sumer - 3200 B.C.
Ziggurat
Fertile Crescent Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Cuneiform First Written Language
Defensive Walls
Nile River
Pharaohs God and King
Mummification
Egyptian Afterlife
Hieroglyphics
Rosetta Stone Advanced the modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing
Wisdom Literature Hymns and prayers to gods, proverbs, accounts of battles
Babylon
Code of Hammurabi 1790 B.C.
Hittites Invaders; learned to extract iron from ore 1400 B.C.
Assyria 1100 B.C.
Persian Empire Darius the road builder 522 to 486 B.C.
Phoenician Sea Traders Also invented the Alphabet – “phoenemes”
Monotheistic One God
Prophet
Israelites Covenant with God
Diaspora
Abraham: Root of Judaism, Christianity and Islam