4527784958 | Universe | 20 billion years old | 0 | |
4527784959 | Earth | 4.5 billion years old | 1 | |
4527784960 | Life | 3.5 billion years old | 2 | |
4527784961 | 1st primate | 60 million years old | 3 | |
4527784962 | Homo Erectus | 1st true human; one million years old | 4 | |
4527784963 | Homo Sapiens | Intelligent humans; 500,000 years old | 5 | |
4527784964 | HomoSapiensSapiens | 40,000 years old; modern | 6 | |
4527784965 | Charles Darwin | Evolutionist who wrote on the origin of species which endorsed theory that animals of the overtime this process is called natural selection | 7 | |
4527784966 | Neanderthal | Form of Homo Sapiens found near Neander, Germany; 100,000-40,000 years ago | 8 | |
4527784967 | Cro-Magnon | Form of Homo Sapiens Sapiens found in France; Modern Man | 9 | |
4527784968 | Piltdown Man | Found in 1912 which was supposedly the "Missing Link", but it was found to be a HOAX | 10 | |
4527784969 | Louis Leakey | Scientist who searched for early man and found Lucy "Australopithecus Boisei" in 1959 | 11 | |
4527784970 | 2 theories on why man changes from walking on 4 legs to 2 legs | Needed to stand in tall grass to see prey and predator and freed front legs for other activities such as making tools and weapons | 12 | |
4527784971 | Paleolithic age | Old Stone Age 2,000,000 BC - 10,000 BC Where man made tools and weapons, controlled fire, built branch shelters, used needles to sew clothing from skins, and hunter in groups | 13 | |
4527784972 | Prehistoric art | Portable art like venuses (small female statuettes) and tool etchings Stationary art such as cave paintings in Altamira, Spain | 14 | |
4536002463 | Mesopotamia | Present day Iraq and means land between 2 rivers | 15 | |
4536002464 | Lunar claender | Based on the phases of the moon, it had 28 days in a month, and was used to predict the spring floods | 16 | |
4536102277 | Anthropomorphic | Having the ap presence and traits of a human | 17 | |
4536102278 | Ziggurat | Large terraced pyramids | 18 | |
4536102279 | Theocracy | Government ruled by a religious figure in the Ben of a supreme being | 19 | |
4536102280 | Cuneiform | Wedge form of writing originally developed to keep records of prayers and hymns for the priests and to keep record of business transactions | 20 | |
4536102281 | Behistun Rock | Persian king Darius the great had it carved into the side of a mountain in Iraq around 520 BC in order to preserve the translation of cuneiform | 21 | |
4536102282 | Royal Cemetery of Ur | Contains the tomb of King Abargi and Queen Shubad (Ur 3000 BC) It was found in 1922 by the English archaeologist Sir Leonard Wolley and contains various artifacts related to ancient Summer | 22 | |
4536102283 | Ur-Nammu | Governor of Ur, referee to as Ur III, constructed the largest Ziggurat that was dedicated to the moon God Nanna | 23 | |
4536102284 | Hammurabi | 6th king of the Amorite Dynasty, United all city states, and created a new law the Code of Hammurabi | 24 | |
4536102285 | Code of Hammurabi | 1st comprehensive law code of history, and contained 282 harsh laws | 25 | |
4536102286 | Hittites | Came from Asia Minor, used iron weapons, and held the secret of making iron | 26 | |
4536102287 | The army of Assyria | Large force of Calvary and chariot Troops to give them speed, showed no mercy | 27 | |
4536102288 | Vassal States | Controlled by Assyria but run by their own kings as long as they paid tribute to Assyria such as Phoenicia and Syria | 28 | |
4536102289 | Sennacherib | Son of Sargon, he established a new capital at Nineveh, and could never take Jerusalem but captured cities of Judah | 29 | |
4536102290 | Prophet Isaiah | He told Hezekiah that if the people remained faithful to God, Jerusalem would not fall | 30 |
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