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9999 BCE
First Humans
4 million years ago
Makers of tools (Homo Habilis)
Glacial period and fire discovery (Neanderthal)
Talked communication (Homo Sapiens) -
9998 BCE
Stone Age
Paleolithic
- Stone tools
- Burial of the dead Mesolithic
- Agriculture
- Polished tools
- Fishing Neolithic
- Animal domestication -
9997 BCE
Lascaux France
+600 paintings
Mithologycal creatures
Ciaroscuro
Natural pigments -
9000 BCE
Jericho, Jordan
- Oldest Settlement
- No doors
- Fortified
- 3000 People
- 8mts tall wall
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8000 BCE
Catalhöyük, Turkey
Unfortified settlement
4000-6000 residents
Residential layout
Textiles
Copper and bone -
5500 BCE
Choirokoitia, Cyprus
- Crowded
- Near Water
- Doors
- Mudbrick
- Stone
- Division of spaces
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3500 BCE
Mesopotamia
Writing
Irrigation
Wheel
Sailboat
Astronomy
Mathematics -
3200 BCE
Newgrange, Ireland
Claming for land
Earth mount covered
Reverence for ancestors
Communal graves -
3000 BCE
Summerian Empire
City-States
First writing system
First human civilization -
2900 BCE
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plane, England
Built in phases
Spanning 1500 years -
2700 BCE
Skara Brae, Scotland
- Underground
- Central Heart
- Vanity Furniture
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2100 BCE
Ziggurat at Ur
Nasiriyah, Irak -
2000 BCE
Akkadian Empire
First to rule all of Mesopotamia
Sargon I of Akkad (Naram Sin)
First Dynasty
First postal office -
1792 BCE
Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi Code (First Laws)
282 Laws
Law 196 "Eye for eye"
Most Powerful city
200,000 Habitants -
1000 BCE
Assyrian Empire
Great warriors
Iron weapons
Invented chariots
Moving to the capital -
605 BCE
King Nebuchadnezzar II
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575 BCE
Cyrus the Great
-
575 BCE
Ishtar Gate
Dedicated to a goddess
- 8 double gates
- Mayor political centre
- 10 meters -
550 BCE
Neo-Babylonian Empire
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521 BCE
Persepolis
Persian Empire
Richest city under the sun
Benevolent
Bulls were important -
521 BCE
Apadana
Mayor hall of the king
Receive tribute
Visitors from different nations -
480 BCE
Xerxes
