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| 7301846432 | Paleolithic (Old Stone) Age | age of the 2 million years when humans existed; used simple tools; created fire; anatomically grew vertically | 0 | |
| 7301848430 | Neolithic (New Stone) Age | age of where humans invented agriculture, cities; beginnings of civilization | 1 | |
| 7301848960 | Neolithic Revolution | development of agriculture, hunting and gathering | 2 | |
| 7301850377 | slash and burn agriculture | when people would burn off trees in an area, farm intensively for a few years until the soil was depleted and then move on-often returning to earlier sites every 20-30 years |  | 3 |
| 7301850383 | bands | Herding people that moved in tribal groups | 4 | |
| 7301850792 | Catal Hüyück | unusual large Neolithic village from 7,000 BCE; had religions and some political power over surrounding small villages; later became part of the Mesopotamian civilization | 5 | |
| 7301853966 | Cuneiform | first developed method of writing; emerged in the Middle East around 3,500 BCE | 6 | |
| 7301860209 | Mesopotamia | the 1st civilization founded in the valley of Tigris and Euphrates rivers |  | 7 |
| 7301860210 | Sumerians | Invaded Mesopotamia in 3500 BCE; developed cuneiform; defined boundaries, city states and other markers of civilization (science, religion, slaves); conquered by Akkadians | 8 | |
| 7301861016 | Ziggurats | religious sites in Mesopotamia that formed the first monumental architecture | 9 | |
| 7301861678 | Babylonians | took over the Akkadians, extended the Sumerian empire | 10 | |
| 7301861679 | Hammurabi | ruler of the Babylonians, invented Hammurabi's code of law |  | 11 |
| 7301868314 | pharaoh | king of Egypt, possessed immense power | 12 | |
| 7301868315 | pyramids | lavish tombs for Pharaohs; started in 2700 BCE |  | 13 |
| 7301868316 | Kush | a Nubian kingdom, which lasted for about 1,000 years and was dominated by Egypt | 14 | |
| 7301868956 | Shang dynasty | China's first dynasty ruled over the Huanghe river in 1500 BCE | 15 | |
| 7301873477 | Phoenicians | devised simple 22-letter alphabet (1300 BCE); people of Southwest Asia who began to trade around 1100 B.C. | 16 |
