Eras

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 3600 BCE

    Prehistory

    time period regarding the most significant development of societal functions
  • Paleolithic
    9000 BCE

    Paleolithic

    “Beginning” of Humanity, depicted by the first tools created dating as far as 2.58 million years ago
  • Mesolithic
    8000 BCE

    Mesolithic

    More fruitful in providing evidence of societal structures like homes, societies ways of living, and other hints to the first building like items
  • Neolithic
    7000 BCE

    Neolithic

    Where the past time periods taught more about tools and structures, the Neolithic time period highlights the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that was led, through the stone tools and other objects found
  • Period: 4100 BCE to 6000 BCE

    Mesopotamian

    Asia based region that existed in three periods of foreign rule and represented a further developed society
  • Sumerian
    3800 BCE

    Sumerian

    Sumerians, who lived in the southern region of Mesopotamia and had art depicting their lifestyles
  • Akkadian Empire
    2154 BCE

    Akkadian Empire

    The first ‘true’ empire. They had a more sophisticated way of living and more in depth language
  • Assyrian Empire
    2025 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

    A time of “united city-states” that had newer technology and advanced items like iron weapons.
  • Babylonian
    1600 BCE

    Babylonian

    Came after the destruction of the Third Dynasty (post Sumerians) had laws, structures more developed, etc!
  • Neo-Babylonian Empire
    539 BCE

    Neo-Babylonian Empire

    The resurgence of the Babylonian Empire privy.
  • Period: 332 BCE to 332 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    This was the “Pharaonic” period, even more advanced civilization where art was used to communicate and honor ideas
  • Protodynastic
    300 BCE

    Protodynastic

    This period was the beginning of political development to start into the early dynastic period.
  • Old Kingdom
    210 BCE

    Old Kingdom

    Most monuments to honor and praise figures were created from this time period, more culture and tradition in this time
  • Middle Kingdom
    160 BCE

    Middle Kingdom

    Continuation of the Old kingdom but using things like the below artifact to teach and educate egyptians about powerful nomarchs
  • New Kingdom
    107 BCE

    New Kingdom

    The last of Egypt’s three kingdoms, and another pharaoh ruled era