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The earliest form of a prosthetic is found in Egypt. Egypt is regarded highly for its medical advancements. -
The Start of the Bronze Age in 3300 BC. Moving from stone tools to bronze was a big step in the future of combat and everyday living. -
The oldest evidence of a scale is that of the Egyptian scale. It was used the weigh things if it wasn't clear. It was also used as a way for Anubis to see if a dead person was worthy or not by weighing their heart with a feather of truth. -
The Edwin Smith Papyrus described the heart, vessels, liver, spleen, kidneys, hypothalamus, uterus, and bladder. It also had a map of the vessels and how they connected to the heart. -
The earliest known use of Mercury dates to Ancient Egypt. They used Mercury to scare away evil spirits. We now know it is poisonous to the human body. -
With Bronze becoming harder to come by the bronze age ended. But with the correct way to make steel the iron age had started. -
The Trojan War was caused by the Queen of Sparta, Helen, being abducted by the Prince of Troy, Paris. King Agamemnon, who was the brother of King Menelaus of Sparta, used the event to rally all the Mycenean Greeks to invade Troy and expand their territory. -
Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD games were held. These games became what we now know as the Olympics. -
The Greeks created cartography to find places and mark them for later. They are the earliest form of a paper map that we know of. -
The Iron Age comes to a close. Closely related to the conquest by the Romans. -
I mostly chose inventions due to how we took the inventions and innovations of the past and built on them to make them better. I also mentioned the Olympics. I included it because it is a timeline because many people watch and participate in today. I felt like most people would touch on only what the book mentioned. So I decided that some focus should be on the inventions and innovations of the ancient Western civilizations.