Units 1 &2 Hayley Henderson

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  • 38,000 BCE

    Modern humans, called Cro-Magnons, emerge

    There skeletal remains are identified as modern humans .They are prehistoric humans
  • 8000 BCE

    Neolithic Age begins

    The New Stone Age
  • 5000 BCE

    Agriculture develops in Egypt and Mesopotamia

    Farming (in red on map)
  • 3300 BCE

    Mesopotamians/Sumerians settled around Tigris and Euphrates

    Good soil attracted the Sumerians
  • 3200 BCE

    Unification of Egypt into one kingdom

    The villages were under the rule of separate kings then began to be untied
  • 2500 BCE

    Indus Valley people plan and build first cities

    They built strong levees,,or earthen walls ,to keep water out of the cities
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Indo-Europeans begin to migrate

    No one knows exactly why these people wanted to migrate
  • 1000 BCE

    Minor kings began setting up kingdoms in India

    Around 1000 B. C., however, minor kings who wanted to set up territorial kingdoms arose among the Aryans.
  • Period: 750 BCE to 550 BCE

    Hindu teachers begin& interpreting Vedic hymns

    Hindu teachers tried to interpret and explain the hidden meaning of the Vedic hymns,religious texts
  • 563 BCE

    Siddhartha Gautama lives

    The founder of Buddhism