Period 1 Timeline

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  • 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic Era

    It was also known as the old stone age, the longest stone age period. They were most concerned with the food supply, from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago. Located in modern-day Europe, they used stone as well as bone tools; they were nomadic hunters and gatherers.
  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 600 BCE

    Period 3 TimeLine

  • 8000 BCE

    Neolithic Era

    It was also known as the New Stone Age, the last period of the stone age, around about 12,000 BC to about 8000 BC. Located in the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East. Human beings began to develop agriculture, and use tools and weapons made from shaped and polished stone. people settled in communities and civilization began to emerge.
  • 8000 BCE

    Neolithic Revolution

    The shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis, around 8,000 BC. Mainly located in Mesopotamia.
  • 1700 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

    Civilization from early China developed by 1700 BCE. Social classes – warrior aristocrats, bureaucrats, farmers, slaves and a Patriarchal society – women as wives & concubines; women sometimes shamans. Centralized government; power in the hands of the emperor.

  • Hammurabi’s Code

    first known written law code, based on Sumerian law, the Code of Hammurabi allowed all people to see the laws of the empire.

  • Akkadian civilization

    King of Akkad - began conquering Sumerian cities. The empire was the first to unite city-states under a single ruler

  • Aryans arrive in Indus River valley

    Originated in the Caucasus area, but they began migrating in many directions about the mid 2nd millennium BCE.remained a nomadic people for many years, but eventually pushed eastward, settling in the fertile Ganges River area as agriculturalists. The Aryans imposed their caste system on the natives, a complex social structure with strict social status differences and virtually no social mobility. Their stories also became the basis for Hinduism.

  • Height of Egyptian civilization

    Divine kingship – the pharaoh; highly centralized, authoritarian government. Generally stable government throughout the 3 kingdoms. Extensive bureaucracy; pharaoh’s power channeled through regional governors.

  • Mesopotamian city states established

    The first civilizations developed by 3500 BCE located between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers in present-day Iraq. A pessimistic view of the world, perhaps due to irregular, unpredictable flooding of the Tigris & Euphrates rivers. Job specialization – farmers, metallurgists, merchants, craftsmen, political administrators, priests, and Social classes.