8000-600 BCEZoe Caulfield

Elizabeth CoweeMauricio Garcia

Allen Wilburn

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

8000-7000 BCE

Wheel inventedPermanent farming villagesTextiles using flaxFirst farming city - Jericho

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

8000-7000 BCE

Domestication of animalsEarly potteryDomestication of plants (wheat, rice, potatoes, beans)StonehengeCatalhoyuk - spiritual center of Anatolia

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

7000-6000BCE

Irrigation Stone tools in Mexico 6700 BCE

Goats, pigs, sheep domesticated

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

7000-6000BCE

Early use of linenCat domesticated

Copper smelting Farming developsCattle domesticated

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

6000-5000 BCE

Cotton cultivated Irrigation

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

6000-5000 BCE

Chickens domesticatedRice cultivationBasketryWeavingWood toolsPrimitive writing

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

5000-4000 BCE

Sai, plow, potter's wheel inventedStone tools

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

5000-4000 BCe

Nomos ruled by nomarchPottery, ivory, spoons, imported

Horse domesticated

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

4000-3000 BCE

PotteryPermanent fishing villages

Krishna's life on earth

Sumerians invented writingCity-statesBronzeWheeled vehicles

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

4000-3000 BCE

Population increaseBronzeHieroglyphicsUnification of Egypt - King Menes (3150)

Sheep, cattle, water buffalo domesticated

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

3000-2000 BCE

Potatoes, alpacas, llamas

Urbanization First permanent farming villages

Cuneiform writingWheeled war wagonsSumerian law code(2334) Sargon unifies Sumer and Akkad (Akkadian Empire)Concept of time created

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

3000-2000 BCE

First pyramid constructedCollapse of authority (End of Old Kingdom - 2134)Beginning of Middle Kingdom - 2040

Yin and Yang conceptXia DynastyDogs, goats, pigs, oxen, sheep dom.Human grave sacrifices

Defensive wallsHittites establish empire in AnatoliaNoah's Ark

Greek Italian Other

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

2000-1500 BCE

Tea and bananasCollapse of Mohejo-Daro and Harrappa - 1750Hinduism - 1500

IrrigationMayan astronomy

Epic of GilgameshRise of Assyrian powerHammurabi establishes Babylonian empireHammurabi's code

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

2000-1500 BCE

Chariot-bearing Hyksos begin invasions of Middle Kingdom EgyptThutmose I expands Egypt into Palestine, Syria, and Nubia

Shang Dynasty - 1600Pictographic writingMetal workingClass systemsHorse dom.Chariots in warfare

Minoan people on CreteMycenean civillization - 1600

Greek Italian Other

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

1500-1000 BCE

Cavin 1200-200 BCE farming society with regional groups; common religious forms; carvings

Brahma worship Metal workingMaize cultivationOlmecs - 1200-400: centralized authority; giant stone heads

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

1500-1000 BCE

Thutmose III ascends to throne - 1458End of New Kingdom - 1070Papyrus

Iron Age - 1400War chariot- 1350Zhou Dynasty - 1122

Mycenaean Greeks conquer Minoan people on Crete (Trojan War)Bronze Age palaces destroyedSaul reigns as first king in JudaeaDavid conquesrs Jerusalem - 1006

Greek Italian Other

Andes Indus Mesoamerica Mesopotamia

1000-600 BCE

First major civilization in South America - politically and economically dominant

Hieroglyphs Assyrian power under Ashurnasirpal IISargon II claims Assyrian power - destroys Kingdom of IsraelAssyrian power declines - 612

Niger Nile Yellow River Other

1000-600 BCE

Kingdom of Kush - 780Assyrians conquer Egypt - 671

First coins in Lydia First Jewish temple - 957AqueductsBabylonians defeat Assyrian army; end of Assyrian EmpireEarliest lyric poets

Greek Italian Other

Italy Greece

1000-600 BCE Etruscans establish cities in TuscanyFounding of Carthage - 814Founding of Rome - 753

Homer's Illiad and OdysseyGreek alphabetFirst written legal code - attributed to Draco - 621Greeks colonize southern France - 605

ArtBottle, Late Jomon period (ca. 1500–1000 b.c.)Japan, Earthenware with incised designs

1000 BC Syria Carving

Limestone statue if Aphrodite holding winged Eros

Greek Roman Art1000 B.C. - A.D 1

Olmec mask (South America, about 1000 BC)

Art

Rock painting of a dance performance, Tassili-n-Ajjer, Algeria, attributed to the Saharan period of Neolithic hunters (c. 6000–4000 bc).

Small figurine, Final Jomon period (ca. 1000–300 b.c.)

Japanese Earthenware

Architecture

Mesopotamian architecture. http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/arch/ur.fwx

Egyptian architecture.http://quezi.com/1034

Ancient Indian palace. http://www.crystalinks.com/indiarchitecture.html

Architecture

http://blog.greenhomebuilding.com/2008/07/tulou-chinese-architecture.htm

http://www.destination360.com/south-america/peru/cusco

http://whc.unesco.org/en/about/http://www.organicarchitecture.info/category/organicprojects/

"[D]omestication of wild plants and animals was accomplished in Mesopotamia around 8500 B.C.E., well before any other nascent civilization" ("Mesopotamia: The Formation of Cities and the Earliest Literatures"; emphasis added). According to recent archeological evidence, ". . . people living near the present-day city of Jericho near the Dead Sea were some of the first human beings to practice agriculture,” and “Signs of equally ancient town life have been found at a place called Catal Huyuk in [present-day] Turkey” [Anatolia], where people may have “first practiced irrigation and domesticated animals” (Kort 7; emphasis added)

Sumerian urban culture centered in Sumer [in what is now modern day Iraq], and Sumerian accomplishments included using the wheel, advancing mathematics (e.g. for measuring time), and creating “the world’s first writing system” - cuneiform - to “keep records of what they did," thus beginning written human “history” (Kort 7). Many migrating peoples entered the region, some as peaceful settlers, others as invaders intent on conquest. Mesopotamia "must be seen as one of the first significant multilingual, multicultural societies in history, with its 3,000 years of development and no less that four major periods under different ruling groups (Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian)" ("Mesopotamia: The Formation of Cities and Earliest Literatures")

Nile River Valley Mesopotamia

Works Links

● http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/189/Rock-painting-of-a-dance-performance-Tassili-n-Ajjer-Algeria

● http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1978.346

● http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1975.268.184

● http://www.billyspostcards.com/Postcard/A504_Old_RPPC_1000_BC_Syria_Carving_Baltimore_MD_Art_Gallery.htm

● http://holidayg44.blogspot.com/2011/12/different-arts-of-women-goddess.htmll

● http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/timelines/2000bc.htm

● http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum213/Maps/Maps2HistoryAncient.htm

● http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/world/RiverValley.html

● http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/archive/TimeLine.cfm?Era_id=4