1. Leakey -First Humans - Great Rift Valley in East Africa

2. Bantu Migration

3. Bantu Migration – Spread of Language and Metallurgy

4. Neolithic Revolution – Domestication of Plants and Animals

5. Neolithic Revolution – Farming, Permanent Settlement, and Civilization Began

6. Neolithic Revolution – Turning Point – 4 River Valley Civilizations

7. 1) Mesopotamia – Land Between Two Rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)

8. Babylon – Hammurabi Code

9. Mesopotamia – Irrigation System

10. Epic of Gilgamesh – an Epic Poem from Mesopotamia

11. 2) China – Huang He – River of Sorrow

12. Confucius – Filial Piety and 5 Relationships

13. Shi Huangdi – Legalism, Great Wall, and Terracotta

14. Himalayas Separated China from India ( No Cultural Diffusion)

15. 3) Egypt – River Nile - Irrigation

16. 4) India – Indus River, Ganges River, and Deccan Plateau

17. India – Hinduism, Ganges River, and Vedas

18. Hinduism – Caste System, Dharma, and Reincarnation

19. India’s Golden Age – Gupta Empire

20. Gupta Empire – Buddhism, Ajanta Caves

21. Greece – Mountainous – City States

22. Athens – Philosophers, Democracy, and Parthenon

23. Hellenistic Age - Cultural Diffusion

24. Roman Empire – Mediterranean Sea

25. Roman Twelve Tables - Laws

26. Constantine Made Christianity Official Religion

27. The Fall of the Roman Empire - Barbarians