Timeline: Science Theories/theoriests Through Time

1500 BCE

MAYA

Mesoamerica; They build great pyramids and held great power in much of the land. These pyramids were built not only for kinds and gods but also for astronomical observations. to add to that one of their great buildings which was built for venuses risin in 1000 CE was the Observatory of Chichen Itza.

754 BCE

IBN RUSHD

He was a follower of aristotle, he translated many of his works. he saw translations as very practical. Ibn rushd was also known as the commentator. The better understandings of astology helped with keeping time, which helped benifit the religion within the mosques. But all in all he considered knowlegde to be the most important thing in this world. to be all knowing.

721 BCE

JAbir ibn hayyan

(Persia) Alchemist; he was also known as Geber. he authored around three thousand texts, but he was accredited with the "philosophers stone" he continuously worked on transmutation, medicinial elixirs and mineralogy.

610 BCE

Thales

From Miletus(Greek City)- Proved the Mathematical Theorem

600 BCE

Anaximander

He worked in geography, astronomy, ad mathematics. introduced the Gnomon to Greece. The Gnomon is a part of the sundial, More specifically it is the part of the sundial that casts the shadow. This helped to better understand the movement of the sun and help vastly move scientific discoveries forward on.

600 BCE

Rome

Rome; created concrete and architecturally were very advanced, as many of their buildings and roads are still around to this date. they also moved thousands of gallons of water to different places so no one would be thirsty. this all happened before they even knew that certain architechual placements made things stonger. they just built it the way that they did.

500 BCE

Confucious

In China; he brought forth the philosophy of tradition, respecting elders, and etiquette. He contested against other people and schools what normal society thought of... but his ideologies brought lots of thoughts up in the air and moved many people to begin new things after his works.

494 BCE

Empedocles

He set the Initial Theory of the four ekements. Earth, fire, air, and water, but added in two more forces, Love and strife.

470 BCE

Socrates

Came up with the theory of the Atom. The smallest particles of all. that everything in this world is made up of all of these.

460 BCE

Deomocritus

thought that Everything is made of atoms. he said tht they were always here , they were uncreaterd, and that there is an infinite number of them because they are everywhere. Along with that they are indestructible. which means that they cant be made or destroyed.

400 BCE

OLEMECS

Mesoamerica; they invented a mathematics and the number "0" they also created large carvings of heads out of stone.

279 BCE

CHandragupta Maurya

He built on eof the larges tEmpires in India. By bringing together all these people he inspired many others to do greater things in their life, such as one of his grandsons Ashoka

232 BCE

Ashoka

(India) He was Chandraguptas Grandson. He spred the Buddhism everywhere he coud, but opened hospitals to many people, he shared his thought and ideas agianst violence, especially agianst animals.

230 BCE

INDIA

around the same time of ashoka na dhis grandfather. They began a large system of irrgation. using canals that were all paid by the people fo the empire through taxes. There hydrolic state helped keep the food and animals controlled.

600

WHY

I choose to make the timeline like this because all aspects of science played an important role in where we are now. From the presocratics to modern days scientists.

762

AL- Mansur

Founded the Round city, Baghdad housed the house of wisdom. This was a place wher emany scholars from different places came to learn more and such. shared information