1. Hominids
Earliest Humans

2. Paleolithic
Old Stone Age

3. Hunters & Gatherers

4. Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
9,000 B.C.E.

5. Surplus
Irrigation Food Surplus Civilization

6. City-State
Sumer B.C.

7. Ziggurat

8. Fertile Crescent
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

9. Cuneiform
First Written Language

10. Defensive Walls

11. Nile River

12. Pharaohs
God and King

13. Mummification

14. Egyptian Afterlife

15. Hieroglyphics

16. Rosetta Stone
Advanced the modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing

17. Wisdom Literature
Hymns and prayers to gods, proverbs, accounts of battles

18. Babylon

19. Code of Hammurabi
1790 B.C.

20. Hittites
Invaders; learned to extract iron from ore
1400 B.C.

21. Assyria
1100 B.C.

22. Persian Empire
Darius the road builder
522 to 486 B.C.

23. Phoenician Sea Traders
Also invented the Alphabet – “phoenemes”

24. Monotheistic
One God

25. Prophet

26. Israelites
Covenant with God

27. Diaspora

28. Abraham:
Root of Judaism, Christianity and Islam