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Starting Point 3.7 Million BC
Old Stone Age -
New Stone Age 8,000 BC- Present
Tools made from wood and stone
Permanent villages
Men would hunt, women cared for the family
Women may have invented agriculture -
Middle Stone Age 10,000-3,000 BC
Domesticate animals for the first time
Invented the boy and arrow
Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons existed -
Egypt! Old Kingdom 2700-2182 BC
Located on the Nile River
Upper Class: Pharaoh/royal family/priests/officials
Lower Class: everybody else
Civil wars divided the kingdom -
Egypt: Middle Kingdom 2000-1780 BC
Officials have more power
Pharaohs are weaker
Hyksos invade and take over -
Egypt: New Kingdom 1550 BC-1085 BC
Forced Hyksos out of Egypt
Pharaohs expanded their land
1100 BC: Egypt grew weaker, invaders came through again -
Hatsheput 1500-1480 BC
First female ruler
Married her half brother!
After she died, her son had all of her names removed from monuments and buildings -
Amenhotep IV
1379-1362 BC
Social/Religious revolutions
Wanted to change country from Polytheistic to Monotheistic -
Sumer Civilization 3000-2400 BC
Tigris-Euphrates Valley
City-States
Writing-clay tablets
Farming
Architecture -
Akkadians 2400-2300 BC
Sargon-Ruler
Empire reached Mediterranean
fell after 100 years -
Babylon 1792-1600 BC
Hammurabi's code of Laws
Regulated life -
Hittites 1600-1200 BC
First to use iron weapons
laws akin to Hammurabi
Capital to far from the valley -
Assyrians
Excelled in warfare
Cavlary and iron weapons
King had total power, represented God -
Chaldeans
Took control of Assyrian territory
Nebuchadnezzar, built the Hanging gardens
Successors betrayed the city to the Persians -
Persians 539 BC
539 BC conquered Babylon.
Used wise judgement and different civilizations to rule within government
Darius the Great, Xerxes important rulers -
Hebrews
Slaves in Egyptian empire
Abraham and Moses important people
Moses leads them to Canaan, the believed promised land
12 tribes unite under Saul, then David and then Solomon
922 BC tribes revolt and divide into two countries: Israel and Judah -
Phoenicians
Trade/Commerce style of living
Discovered the royal purple dye -
Lydians 600 BC
FIrst to use a money economy
