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circa 7000 BCE - Settlement of Nile Valley begins.
circa 7000 BCE - Settlement of Nile Valley begins. circa 3000 BCE - Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite. Successive dynasties witness flourishing trade, prosperity and the development of great cultural traditions. Writing, including hieroglyphics, is used as an instrument of state. -
Cuneiforme (3600 B.C)- La palabra cuneiforme proviene del latín 'cuneus', que significa 'cuña' y simplemente significa 'en forma de cuña'. Se refiere a la forma que se hace cada vez que un escriba presiona su estilete en la arcilla. -
The Wheel (3200 BC)
The wheel was invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia(modern-day Iraq), where the Sumerian people inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood. It was only in 2000 BC that the discs began to be hollowed out to make a lighter wheel. This innovation led to major advances in two main areas. -
circa 3000 BCE - Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt uniteMenes sent an army down the Nile and defeated the king of Lower Egypt in battle. In this way Menes united the two kingdoms. Unification means the joining together of two separate parts, in the case, the two kingdoms. Menes, sometimes known as Narmer, became the first pharaoh.
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Cortez and his men observed various festivals held in honour of the god of rain and lightning, Tlaloc. The Aztecs celebrated the first rain festival at the beginning of the agricultural year in February, during the course of which a priest or shaman carried out a number of rituals to encourage rainfall
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New Fire Ceremony, also called The Binding Up of the Years, in Aztec religion, ritual celebrated every 52 years when the 260-day ritual and 365-day civil calendars returned to the same positions relative to each other. In preparation, all sacred and domestic fires were allowed to burn out.
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The Olmec Civilization was one of the most influential ancient civilizations of the early Americas, and though its dominance of the region faded in the last centuries before the Common Era, the Olmec civilization is commonly thought to be the “mother culture” of many other cultures that appeared in the region in later
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1046 BC: The Mandate of Heaven.
In 1046 BCE, King Wen and his allies claimed that King Di had lost the "Mandate of Heaven." This mandate established the idea that a ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods. King Wen defeated the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty -
The Olmec Civilization was one of the most influential ancient civilizations of the early Americas, and though its dominance of the region faded in the last centuries before the Common Era, the Olmec civilization is commonly thought to be the “mother culture” of many other cultures that appeared in the region in later
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The oldest form of the calendar—the solar round—was likely invented by the Olmec, epi-Olmec, or Izapans about 900-700 BCE, when agricultural was first established. The sacred round may have been developed as a subdivision of the 365-year one, as a tool specifically designed to track important dates for farming.
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The advent of the Toltecs marked the rise of militarism in Mesoamerica. They also were noted as builders and craftsmen and have been credited with the creation of fine metalwork, monumental porticoes, serpent columns, gigantic statues, carved human and animal standard-bearers, and peculiar reclining Chac Mool figures.
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221 BC: The First Emperor. ..
Shihuangdi was emperor of the Qin dynasty (221–210 BCE) and the creator of the first unified Chinese empire. He is also known for his interest in immortality, his huge funerary compound that contains some 8,000 life-sized terra-cotta soldiers, and for his contribution to the Great Wall of China.
