History of Architecture

  • First Humans
    9999 BCE

    First Humans

    4 million years ago
    Makers of tools (Homo Habilis)
    Glacial period and fire discovery (Neanderthal)
    Talked communication (Homo Sapiens)
  • Stone Age
    9998 BCE

    Stone Age

    Paleolithic
    - Stone tools
    - Burial of the dead Mesolithic
    - Agriculture
    - Polished tools
    - Fishing Neolithic
    - Animal domestication
  • Lascaux France
    9997 BCE

    Lascaux France

    +600 paintings
    Mithologycal creatures
    Ciaroscuro
    Natural pigments
  • Jericho, Jordan
    9000 BCE

    Jericho, Jordan

    • Oldest Settlement
    • No doors
    • Fortified
    • 3000 People
    • 8mts tall wall
  • Catalhöyük, Turkey
    8000 BCE

    Catalhöyük, Turkey

    Unfortified settlement
    4000-6000 residents
    Residential layout
    Textiles
    Copper and bone
  • Choirokoitia, Cyprus
    5500 BCE

    Choirokoitia, Cyprus

    • Crowded
    • Near Water
    • Doors
    • Mudbrick
    • Stone
    • Division of spaces
  • 3500 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    Writing
    Irrigation
    Wheel
    Sailboat
    Astronomy
    Mathematics
  • Newgrange, Ireland
    3200 BCE

    Newgrange, Ireland

    Claming for land
    Earth mount covered
    Reverence for ancestors
    Communal graves
  • Summerian Empire
    3000 BCE

    Summerian Empire

    City-States
    First writing system
    First human civilization
  • Stonehenge
    2900 BCE

    Stonehenge

    Salisbury Plane, England
    Built in phases
    Spanning 1500 years
  • Skara Brae, Scotland
    2700 BCE

    Skara Brae, Scotland

    • Underground
    • Central Heart
    • Vanity Furniture
  • Ziggurat at Ur
    2100 BCE

    Ziggurat at Ur

    Nasiriyah, Irak
  • Akkadian Empire
    2000 BCE

    Akkadian Empire

    First to rule all of Mesopotamia
    Sargon I of Akkad (Naram Sin)
    First Dynasty
    First postal office
  • Babylonian Empire
    1792 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

    Hammurabi Code (First Laws)
    282 Laws
    Law 196 "Eye for eye"
    Most Powerful city
    200,000 Habitants
  • Assyrian Empire
    1000 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

    Great warriors
    Iron weapons
    Invented chariots
    Moving to the capital
  • King Nebuchadnezzar II
    605 BCE

    King Nebuchadnezzar II

  • Cyrus the Great
    575 BCE

    Cyrus the Great

  • Ishtar Gate
    575 BCE

    Ishtar Gate

    Dedicated to a goddess
    - 8 double gates
    - Mayor political centre
    - 10 meters
  • Neo-Babylonian Empire
    550 BCE

    Neo-Babylonian Empire

  • Persepolis
    521 BCE

    Persepolis

    Persian Empire
    Richest city under the sun
    Benevolent
    Bulls were important
  • Apadana
    521 BCE

    Apadana

    Mayor hall of the king
    Receive tribute
    Visitors from different nations
  • Xerxes
    480 BCE

    Xerxes