1. SOL Intervention Spring 2011 Innovations and Inventions

2. Stone tools Paleolithic

3. Fire Paleolithic

4. Pottery and weaving Neolithic Period

5. Oral language Paleolithic Age

6. Domesticated animals Neolithic

7. Cave art Paleolithic Age

8. Domesticated plants/Agriculture Neolithic

9. Use of Metals – bronze and iron River Valley civilizations

10. World’s first cities River valley civilization

11. Monotheism Judaism

12. Hieroglyphics Egypt

13. Cuneiform Sumer/Mesopotamia

14. Alphabet Phoenician

15. Imperial bureaucracy and Road system Persian Empire

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

17. Civil service exam Classical China

18. Paper, porcelain, and silk Classical China

19. First democracy Athens

20. Drama Greeks; Aeschylus and Sophocles

21. First historians Greeks; Herodotus and Thucydides

22. Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian Greek types of columns

23. Greek Pythagoras

24. Philosophy Greeks; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

25. First Republic Rome

26. Pantheon, Colosseum, and Forum Roman structures

27. Roads, Aqueducts, and Arches Rome ARCHES

28. “innocent until proven guilty” Roman law

29. Icons, Mosaics, & Hagia Sophia Byzantine Empire

30. Dome of the Rock Islam

31. Arabic Alphabet Islam

32. Algebra Islam

33. Manor with castle European Middle Age

34. Printing and paper money China

35. Compass China

36. Lateen sail Indian Ocean region

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

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