2014264822 | Paleolithic Era | 2.5million-10,000BCE Hunter Gatherer Lifestyle Mobile, small sizes for easy migration to find more food sources | 0 | |
2014264823 | Neolithic Era | 10,000-4,000BCE Hunter/Gather--->Agriculture Grow crops, raise domestic animals, settlements, villages | 1 | |
2014264824 | Sumer | 4th-3rd millenia Cuneiform, irrigation, wheel, city-states | 2 | |
2014264825 | Akkadia | Late 3rd millenia Semitic Sargon Empire Postal System | 3 | |
2014264826 | Babylonia | Early 2nd millenia Semitic Hammurabi's Law (an eye for an eye) | 4 | |
2014264827 | Hittites | 2nd millenia Indo-European, chariots | 5 | |
2014264828 | Assyria | Late 2nd-Mid 1st millenia Semitic Iron, literature, largest army. Military Power/Machine | 6 | |
2014264829 | Phoenicia | Late 2nd-Mid 1st millenia Semitic Alphabet | 7 | |
2014264830 | Hebrews | 1st millenia Semitic Monotheism | 8 | |
2014264831 | Neo-Babylonia | 1st millenia Semitic Nebuchadnezzar Hanging Gardens | 9 | |
2014264832 | Persians | Late 1st millenia Indo-Europeans War with Greeks, huge empire | 10 | |
2014264833 | Old Kingdom of Egypt | 2,600-2,100BCE Pyramid of Giza | 11 | |
2014264834 | Middle Kingdom of Egypt | 2,000-1,600BCE Hyksos Invasion Brought chariots and horses | 12 | |
2014264835 | New Kingdom of Egypt | 1,500-1,000BCE Ramses, Tutankhamun | 13 | |
2014264836 | End of Egypt | 30BCE Ptolemies, Cleopatra dies, Julius Caesar | 14 | |
2014264837 | Migrations | Bantu Migration: 2,000s-1,800BCE Indo-European Migration: 1,500BCE Aryan arrival | 15 | |
2014264838 | Harappan Society | 3,300-1,300BCE Mohenjo-Daro, Harappa Trade-based, cotten, pottery, jewelry | 16 | |
2014264839 | Vedic Age | 1,500-500BCE Hinduism Vedas, Sanskrit Varna/Caste Upanishad | 17 | |
2014264840 | 500BCE | Persian Arrival Administrative Knowledge | 18 | |
2014264841 | 300sBCE | Alexander the Great Greeks rise | 19 | |
2014264842 | Maurya | 321-185BCE Centralised bueracracy, Buddhist | 20 | |
2014264843 | Kushan Empire | 1-300CE Greco-Buddhist Buddhism went to China through empire | 21 | |
2014264844 | Guptas | 320-550CE Hinduism Arabic Numerals | 22 | |
2014264845 | Xia Dynasty | 2,200-1,766BCE (Harappa, Egypt, Akkadia, Babylonia) Myth-encrusted | 23 | |
2014264846 | Shang Dynasty | 1,766-1,122BCE Social Classes(no priestly class) Ancestor Worship, shamanism. Patriarchy. Oracle Bones, bronze metallurgy, city walls, chariots, writing | 24 | |
2014264847 | Zhou Dynasty | 1,122-256BCE Mandate of Heaven(authority given from God) Western Zhou (1,122-771BCE) Capital: Hao Eastern Zhou (771-256BCE) Capital: Luoyang Iron Technology---->Decentralisation Spring & Autumn Period (771-463BCE) Warring States (463-221BCE) | 25 |
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