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| 3145053266 | Venuses | Earliest sculptures of humans Over 20,000 years ago Elaborate clothing Weaving with nettle Mainly made by women | 0 | |
| 3145053267 | Agricultural revolution | 10,000BCE Neolithic Gradual transition from nomadic lifestyle to stalled lifestyle Tools developed Domestication The Hollocene Surplus of food Complex social organisation and governments Larger families Irrigation Catal Hüyuk & Gobekli | 1 | |
| 3145053268 | Hunter gatherers | Healthier than agriculturalists More varied and nutritious diet Less work and more leisure Patriarchy | 2 | |
| 3145053269 | Diffusion | Spread of ideas, disease.. Cultural diffusion (hunter gatherers become farmers) Demic diffusion (farmers migrate) | 3 | |
| 3145053270 | Adoption of farming... | Climate change Greater sedentism (abundant local food) Population growth Demands on local food Social competition Religious inspiration | 4 | |
| 3145053271 | Mesopotamia | "Land between rivers" Euphrates and Tigris rivers Unpredictable flooding leads to complex government and organization Irrigation- canals Sumerians and semtitic Earliest writing 3,000BCE First maps City-states agricultural based Power resided in the temple(priests) and the palace( the lugal(king) "big man) Hammurabi's law code 1754BCE Social stratification(1-landowning 2-dependent farmers, artisans 3-,Slaves) Subordinated women | 5 | |
| 3145053272 | Egypt | Fertile land along the river Nile Predictable floodings lead to a less complex government "Black Land"- life sustaining soil " Red Land"- Dessert Climate favored agriculture Irrigation Knigs "Rulers of the Two Lands" were the central figure Bureaucrats Government controlled economy and trade Hieroglyphichs- papyrus Breakdown of centralized power Social stratification Sales limited Women could own property Polytheism Temples and gifts to gods Afterlife- mummification The Book of the Dead Accurate Calendar Attacked by Sea People 1200BCE | 6 | |
| 3145053273 | Yellow River | Yellow dust- loess Communication, travel, agriculture China | 7 | |
| 3145053274 | Shang | China 1600-1050BCE Warrior aristocracy King and court ruled core area Bronze Age Feng shui Pictograms and phonetic symbols- writing system Divination Far reaching trade networks Confucianism | 8 | |
| 3145053275 | Zhou | 1046-256BCE China Longest lasting dynasty "Mandate of Heaven" Shang defeated by emperor Wu 11th C.BCE Autumn and Spring period(770-475BCE) Warring States period(475-221BCE) Legalism Taxes Bureaucrats Daoism Confucianism | 9 | |
| 3145053276 | Shamans | China Women communicate with supernatural forces | 10 | |
| 3145053277 | El Niño | 2200-1200BCE Sea people Dark Age Draughts Global Warming | 11 | |
| 3145053278 | Egypt El Niño | Nile inundations in decline Pepi II 2278BCE Internal dissention Tribute and tax collection Grain rationed Social disorder King Mentuhotep I reunited Lower and Upper Egypt 2046BCE Sea People with Lybians attack in 1200BCE Massive inflation | 12 | |
| 3145108662 | Eastern Mediterranean El Niño | Divine forces control weather Bronze age rulers built temples and cult sanctuaries in times of drought | 13 | |
| 3145108663 | Ugarit | Port on the northern Syrian coast Polyglot city | 14 | |
| 3145108664 | Hittites | Rise in Anatolia 14thC.BCE Treaty dividing the Levant between king Suppiliuliuma and pharaoh Rameses II Warrior culture State collapsed in 1200BCE- Sea People Drought | 15 |
