Early civilizations and religions

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  • Paleolithic era
    10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic era

    relied on hunting and gathering for food. and lived in caves.
  • Neolithic era
    8000 BCE

    Neolithic era

    Start of agriculture and villages.
  • Hinduism
    8000 BCE

    Hinduism

    Views the entire universe as gods and everything in the universe as gods.
  • sumerians
    4100 BCE

    sumerians

    Known for their innovations in language, governance, and architecture.
  • Mesopotamia
    4000 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    First urban civilization.
  • Jerusalem
    3000 BCE

    Jerusalem

    Its earliest known name may be Jebusite, the translation of a Canaanite town. Together with the later arriving Philistines, they are believed to be the earliest known ancestors to present day Palestinians.
  • Akkadian
    2334 BCE

    Akkadian

    They developed the first postal system, delivering clay tablet messages in clay envelopes. The Akkadian language is the oldest surviving cuneiform script.
  • babylon
    2000 BCE

    babylon

    served as a center of Mesopotamian civilization for nearly two millennia.
  • Judaism
    1800 BCE

    Judaism

    one of the oldest monotheistic religions. Jews believe that God appointed the Jews to be his chosen people in order to set an example of holiness and ethical behaviour to the world.
  • Israelites
    1800 BCE

    Israelites

    a Hebraic group of people who lived in the ancient Middle East.they wrote and codified the Hebrew Bible, largely the same material as the Christian Old Testament, and are considered the ancestors to the world's Jewish population of today.
  • shang dynasty
    1750 BCE

    shang dynasty

    first major rulers of china.They were known for their advances in math, astronomy, artwork and military technology.Dec 13, 2017
  • Phoenicians
    1500 BCE

    Phoenicians

    The core of Phoenician territory was the city-state of Tyre, in what-is-now Lebanon. Primarily remembered as adept sailors and cunning merchants.
  • Hittites
    1400 BCE

    Hittites

    an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in modern day Turkey
  • Assyrians
    900 BCE

    Assyrians

    started off as a major regional power in Mesopotamia.mainly remembered for its military victories, technological advancements (such as using iron for weapons and building roads), use of torture to inspire fear, and a written history of conquests.
  • Islam
    610 BCE

    Islam

    The Islamic empire spread from the Middle East, west to North Africa and Spain and east to India. Important early Islamic cities were Baghdad (in modern-day Iraq), Córdoba (in Spain) and Cairo (in Egypt).
  • Persians
    550 BCE

    Persians

    founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and the fall of the Sassanian Empire in 651 CE
  • Buddhism
    543 BCE

    Buddhism

    Buddhism arose in Ancient India, in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha, and is based on the teachings of the renunciate Siddhārtha Gautama.
  • Christianity
    3

    Christianity

    Early Christianity contains the Apostolic Age and is followed by, and substantially overlaps with, the Patristic era. The Apostolic sees claim to have been founded by one or more of the apostles of Jesus, who are said to have dispersed from Jerusalem sometime after the crucifixion of Jesus, c.
  • Roman catholic
    30

    Roman catholic

    As a branch of Christianity, Roman Catholicism can be traced to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in Roman-occupied Jewish Palestine
  • protestant
    1517

    protestant

    Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church's teachings