SOL Intervention Spring 2011 Innovations and Inventions

Stone tools Paleolithic

Fire Paleolithic

Pottery and weaving Neolithic Period

Oral language Paleolithic Age

Domesticated animals Neolithic

Cave art Paleolithic Age

Domesticated plants/Agriculture Neolithic

Use of Metals – bronze and iron River Valley civilizations

World’s first cities River valley civilization

Monotheism Judaism

Hieroglyphics Egypt

Cuneiform Sumer/Mesopotamia

Alphabet Phoenician

Imperial bureaucracy and Road system Persian Empire

Math: Zero “0”, medical: setting bones, Astronomy: round earth India (Gupta) 3 – 3 = “0”

Civil service exam Classical China

Paper, porcelain, and silk Classical China

First democracy Athens

Drama Greeks; Aeschylus and Sophocles

First historians Greeks; Herodotus and Thucydides

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian Greek types of columns

Greek Pythagoras

Philosophy Greeks; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

First Republic Rome

Pantheon, Colosseum, and Forum Roman structures

Roads, Aqueducts, and Arches Rome ARCHES

“innocent until proven guilty” Roman law

Icons, Mosaics, & Hagia Sophia Byzantine Empire

Dome of the Rock Islam

Arabic Alphabet Islam

Algebra Islam

Manor with castle European Middle Age

Printing and paper money China

Compass China

Lateen sail Indian Ocean region

Western hemisphere: Calendars, mathematics, writing and other record keeping Maya, Aztecs, and Inca

Moveable type printing press and the production of books European Renaissance Gutenberg Bible