1. Remote ancestors – 4 million years ago in Africa. 2 1. Remote ancestors – 4 million years ago in Africa. 2. The Paleolithic is also known as the Old Stone Age. It falls under the Pleistocene Period, or the Ice Age. 3. Ice Age art tended to be cave paintings, which seemed to be part of hunting rituals, and fertility symbols, such as the Willendorf statue. 4. Hunters and gathers became farmers during the Neolithic Period.

5. Calendars, bread, ovens, stone tools, hammers, bricks, weaving, dyeing, tanning, lamps, metals/tools, plows, the wheel, boats 6. The area “between the rivers” was called the Fertile Crescent, the Neolithic Revolution (domestication of animals and agriculture, plus fertile land) made it possible. 7. The 3 main civilizations were the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian.

8. Mathematical computation, writing, lunar calendar, medical and scientific discoveries came from Sumer. 9. A stele from 1700 BCE. Hammurabi created a uniform system of justice. 10. The Egyptian civilization 11. Divine royalty