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By 4000 BCE, many varieties of beer were commonly used in the middle-eastern region of the globe. -
Pastoral people living in southern Russia began the domestication of Horses -
A chain of interactions resulting in new uses for domesticated animals, such as for milk, manure, and manual labor across Europe, Asia, and Africa. -
ancient Mesopotamia's largest city (pop. 50,000)
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A cereal grain first domesticated in southern Mexico
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Earliest recorded civilizations expanding from Sumer, Egypt, and the central coast of Peru.
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an early Nubian civilization originating south of Egypt in the Nile Valley
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grown primarily in Sumer and organized by a plethora of city-states in a harsher environment compared to its neighboring territories.
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Beginning in 3100 BCE, this community of people existed under the powerful rule of the pharaoh until harsh environment and uprising classes brought the civilization to a rocky corner in 2000 BCE
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Creating the spark for much of Africa's agricultural advances in the south, numerous Bantu-speaking people moved from east to south, spreading their culture and agriculture expertise with them. -
One of the first great cities expanding from the coast of Peru
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A series of devastating battles at the hands of powerful northern territories beginning with Akkadians, and ending with the Assyrians empire.
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an aristocratic society with no written language but many forms of pottery and views of gods/goddesses
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One of the earliest Chinese civilizations that focused on a strong monarchy, who's ruler was able to "master the waters and made them flow in great channels".
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a 2,000 BCE city along the Indus river (pop. 40,000) with 2-3 story houses
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Being much larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia, this addition to the worlds First Civilizations showed no evidence of kings, palaces, temples or warrior classes.
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an accumulation of 200+ by the Babylonian Empire
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An addition to the Chinese state resulting from the fall of the previous monarchy.
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the "mother of Civilization in mesoamerica" that came from numerous chiefdoms and introduced the first written language in the Americas. (around the Gulf of Mexico near Veracruz)
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Another addition to early Chinese civilization
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A Nubian kingdom that invaded Egypt and ruled for a century