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lifetime of lucy
lived 4 million years ago was a biped, had teeth omnivores and stood 3 feet tall -
homo habilus
2 million years ago had a big brain, tools , teeth walked on two feet -
homo erectus
lived 1.8 million years ago used fire tools bipeds -
neanderthals
less than 500 thousand years ago much stronger bid forehead fire buring dead tools -
homo sapien sapien
all of the above crops art lauguage modern humans today -
Rise of the Kingdom of Sumer, 2900 BCE
Sumer is a civilization that had developed arts and sciences.Thay had high, medium, and low classes. It was a forced religon and believed in many gods. Their writing started as pictographs, then cuneiform. Their most useful invention is the wheel -
The Epic of Gilgamesh,Exact date of writing unknown; best copies discovered in a 7th century BCE royal library
Gilgamesh was a greedy king who was desperate for a friend. The gods sent him a friend named Enkidu and they went on adventures together. Gilgamesh and Enkidu were very big. Gilgamesh was the ruler of the city Uruk. -
Abraham Approx. 1900BCE
Abraham is a man who is sacred to christians, jews, and muslims. He was the first to believe in one god only. -
Hammurabi’s Code1792-1750 BCE
Hammurabi was a king who came up with a code of laws for his people that we base our laws on today. He claims that his god wanted him to come up with a just code of laws fo his people to follow. He is the first to have a code of laws. -
Joseph goes to Egypt and the Israelites followApprox. 1700-1280 BCE
Joseph was the favored of his brothers and so thay got jealous and sold him to slavery in eygpt. The other siblings told everyone that he was dead. After years in prison, Joseph was finally reconized by the king for his dream interpretation. Then, th Isrealites had a famine and their was food in eygpt so they went to Eygpt. -
Moses, the Exodus from Egypt, and the Ten CommandmentsApprox. 1280-1240 BCE
Moses was mad at the Eygptians for enslaving jews, So it cursed the ten plagues on them. After, he let the Isrealites go and thay followed moses to mt Sinai. This is where moses recieved the ten commandments. -
The Time of the Judges/The Time Before KingsApprox. the middle of the 13th century to the middle of the 11th century BCE
Deborah was one of the judges in this time. she stood uner a palm tree and judged right from wrong. She was the first judge of canaan. -
The Reign of DavidApprox. 1013-973 BCE
David is the most famous king of Isreal.David fought Goliah to have goliath's people be their slaves. Also, he was the first to unite all 12 tribes of Isreal. -
Elijah Approx. 875-853 BCE
Elijah faced a drought and went into the dessert and came upon a man named Ahab. They argued who's god is real or not so they came up with a contest. It was whoever's God lit a fire first was the winner and God won. -
Siege of Lachish
The Assyrians seiged lachich. It was easy for the Assyrians because lachich was surrounded by wallls. They seiged lachich because the lachich king rufused to pay taxes. -
Siege of Jerusalem
The peope of Jerusalem were seiged by the babylonians. Like Lachich, the city was surrounded by walls. This army used torture to strip jerusalem of everything down to its very foundation. -
Indus Valley Civilization 2000BC
the indus valley civilization put great importance into cleaniness and bathing. they had creamic statues of pregnent woman. Also they had bulls representing viritily. -
The Aryan invasion and the vedas 1700BC
The aryans invaded the indus valley civilization in 1700BC. The aryans only prayed to male gods. The vedas had a lot of scriptures. The mixture of the indus valley people and the aryans created hinduism -
the ascetics and the upanishads
The ascetics were people that dedcated to a life of spiritual austerity and self discipline. The upanishads contain almost exclusively dialoges of guru, upanishads means to sit beside.