4269941392 | Neolithic Revolution | humans begin to farm | 0 | |
4269946539 | Cave paintings | Paleolithic paintings of scenes of hunting or fertility, found in caves in France, South Africa, and other regions. | 1 | |
4269948736 | Agricultural revolution | A time when new inventions such as the seed drill and the steel plow made farming easier and faster. | 2 | |
4269951051 | Catal Huyuk | Oldest settlement | 3 | |
4269956945 | Mesopotamia | A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. | 4 | |
4269962731 | Tigris river | River that flows across a low, flat plain in Iraq and joins the Euphrates River | 5 | |
4269964349 | Euphrates river | A river in southwestern Asia that flows through the southern part of the Fertile Crescent. | 6 | |
4269966147 | Ziggurats | Sumerian temples | 7 | |
4269971195 | Cuneiform | Sumerian wedge writing | 8 | |
4269973049 | Hammurabi's Code | Oldest written system of laws. Created in Babylon. | 9 | |
4269976678 | Polytheism | the worship of multiple deities | 10 | |
4269978828 | Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia | 11 | |
4269982686 | Hieroglyphs | pictographic ancient Egyptian writing | 12 | |
4269985021 | Nile River | Egypt's central river, flows northward through East Africa into the Mediterranean Sea | 13 | |
4269989808 | King Menes | Leader of the first Egyptian ruling dynasty. United upper and lower Egypt | 14 | |
4269991717 | Pharoh | Egyptian ruler worshipped as a god | 15 | |
4269998787 | Pyramids | burial sites of Egyptian pharohs | 16 | |
4270001620 | Papyrus | Egyptian paper | 17 | |
4270003975 | King Tut | king whose tomb has helped historians | 18 | |
4270006637 | Phonecians | manufacturing, trade, and phonetic alphabet | 19 |
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