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Fire was the most important thing in the Ice Age. Thick sheets of ice covered Europe, Asia, and North America. People often died because of the cold and they also starved from hunger.
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People during the Stone Age spent most of their time hunting, fishing, and gathering food these people were called Nomads.
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After the Ice Age came the Neolithic Times when gradually farming replaced hunting and gathering which is known as the farming revolution.
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This was a very important time for the Neolithic people it helped them so then they didn't have to hunt or gather anymore.
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Craftspeople in western Asia mixed copper and tin together to make a stronger metal known as bronze.
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Over the years the early farming villages developed into civilizations or complex societies.
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With people staying in just one place meant they had to find jobs to do this was called specialization. Some of the jobs were farming, craftspeople, and toolmakers.
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A city-state is a city that became separate from a country and had its own government.
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A lot of people farmed others were artisans or people who made things.
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Mesopotamian people created the 60-minute hour, 60-second minute, the 360 degree circle,and the 12 month calendar.
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The first civilization in Mesopotamia was Sumer which is now southern Iraq it was in between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River.
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Two of the earliest known communities are Jericho which is now known as Israel and Jordan the other city is Catal Huyuk which is now present-day Turkey.
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Sargon king of the Akkaidians had the first empire in the world and then it collapsed over 200 years later because of invaders. Hammurabi king of Babylon was known for his law code.
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About 1,000 years after Hammurabi, a new empire started and the empire was called Assyria, the Assyrians were strong people they produced iron weapons that were stronger than copper and tin.
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The Chaldeans were led by king Nebuchadnezzer they controlled all of Mesopotamia. They invented the hanging gardens
