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Known as the Neolithic Age, this is where agriculture skyrocketed.
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Known as the Paleolithic Era, this is where the first development of tools are made.This ended in 10,000 BCE.
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Founded their most powerful state, Sidon.
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It was first used for statues and thing of importance, but later was used for more common things such as tools.
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World's first cities began in the southern region of Mesopotamia called, Sumer
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was the first form of writing. Looks like wedged shape marks on a clay tablet.
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King Menes was a pharaoh who founded the first dynasty. He unified the Lower Egyptians of the Nile and the Upper Egyptians that lived in the mountains.
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The beginning of ancient egypt. During this time that the kingship became Egypts form of government.
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This is where the major advances in architecture and art come into play. The Giza pyramids and the Great Sphinx were made during this period. Egypts government collapsed at the end of this period
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The pyramid of Djoser was built during the third dynasty. This pyramid and the ones surrounding it were designed by an architect by the name of Imhotep
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Akkadian ruled over Mesopotamia and creates the worlds first empire
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Egypt’s stability returns, with that the art, literature, and architecture take off again.
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The Hitties developed iron weapons in northern Asia.
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The code of Hammurabi was a set of laws that are considered the oldest laws in history. The Code was the first attempt to have a law system.
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The pharaohs during this period get everything on the right track by strengthening the borders and ties with neighbors.Eventually Egypt was invaded because of the wealth.
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phoenician alphabet created.
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The kingdom was established by Israelites and were united under one king.
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The Assyrians left control to a series of vassals known as the Saite kings
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King Nebuchadnezzar was the first Babylonian king to rule Egypt and he completely re did the whole city, making it beautiful.
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Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon by diverting the flow of the Euphrates River into irrigation Systems, by doing this he was able to lower the water levels so that his army could attack the city from the riverbank.
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Daruis contributed to the economy by encouraging trade. he standardized weights measurements and coins to help tade
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Bi Sheng in China made the first movable printing technology. It was made by making separate characters of clay, embedding the characters, facing up, putting it a shallow tray lined with warm wax, laying a board across them and pressed them down until all the characters were at exactly the same level.