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BC
AD
BCE
CE
AH
- Before Christ
- Anno Domini
- Before Common Era
- Common Era
- Anno Hegirae- AD 622
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Earliest human like creature
- Austalopithecine..
- later...
- Australopithecus
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First "Human"
Homo Habilis
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Who migrated out of Africa?
Homo Erectus (upright human)
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Wise Human?
Neanderthal aka homo sapiens.
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in 10,000 BC , the only human left on earth was?
- Homo Sapien Sapien AKA
- "Cro magnon man"
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Early period in human history
Stone Age
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2 distinct parts of the Stone Age
1 transitional period
- Paleolithic(old stone age), Neolithic(new stone age)
- Mesolithic(middle stone age)
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paleolithic
Hunting and gathering. They migrated with the animals.
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During the paleolithic age what did migrating do?
Kept the populations small
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Greatest accomplishments of the paleolithic people?
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Clay statues of the paleolithic age
Mother Goddesses
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Greatest achievement of the Neolithic age
- Planting of crops
- domestication of animals
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3 types of tribal ties
- Most basic: Extended Family
- Clan: Group of extended families
- Tribe: Group of Clans
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Irrigation was developed when
Neolithic age
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In the Neolithic age what did the people develop since they had a more settled lifestyle?
Specialties as well as new tools and techniques
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When was it used and where was the first evidence of metal working discovered
4000 BC @Sihlk, N. Iran
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Early civilization emerged on the banks of?
What were they called?
- Rivers
- Cradles of civilization
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Where are the cradles of civilization?
- Valley of:
- Tigres and Euphrates river
- Nile river, Egypt
- Indus river, India & Pakistan
- Yellow river, China
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Mesopotamia
Land between the rivers
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Who were the first to create city states?
Sumerians (Sumer)
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Sumerians were no?
Semetic- They came from the caspian sea region
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Sumerians were the first to develop
Irrigation on a grand scale
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What and where did the sumerians grow?
- Tigres and Euphates river(mostly Euphrates)
- Barley, Wheat, Vegetables
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Some early inventions of Sumer
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What does writing come from and what is it called?
- Pictograph- from 2000 signs or symbols
- later
- Cuneiform- latin for cuneus (wedge shaped)- 600 phoenetic sounds
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King or ruler of mesopotamia
Lugal
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Sargon was_____not_____?
He was the first to do what?
- Semetic, not sumerian
- unite into 1 nation
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Hammurabi
- King of the Amorites
- Capitol located at Babylon
- Called 1st Babylonian pd.
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Hammurabi's code?
- Law of the Claw
- 300 codes written on a 7' diarite stone
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Who took over the Babylonian culture? How long did it take for Babylon to recover?
- The Hittites (Indo-Europeans from Asia Minor)
- 500 yrs
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Egypt was known as the?
Gift of the Nile
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The Nile river flows from?
Equitorial Africa in the south to the mediteranian sea.
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Where dos the Nile become the "Nile"
Kartoun
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Eoliths
Early Stone tools
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Upper Egypt
From the Delta to the First Cataract
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Humans moved into a food producing economy when?
Neolithic age
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3 kingdoms of Egypt
- Archaic Age
- Old Kingdom (Pyramid age)
- New Kingdom
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1 period of egypt
Intermediate period
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Egypt's first king
Menes or Narmer
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The God King of Egypt in the Old Kingdom?
- Horus- the Falcon headed God.
- Son of Osirus
- All lands belong to him
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Old Kingdom was also known as the?
Pyramid age
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When does the king become Pharaoh?
New Kingdon
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Greatest Warrior Pharaoh?
Tutmose III
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Pharaoh mentioned in the Bible?
Rameses II
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government of the old kingdom?
Under king was
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All the Gods?
Old Kingdom: Ptah of Memphis- one of the oldest recorded Gods
Horus: Falcon Headed God
Aton- Sun God- Amenhotep IV -->Akhenaton
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Who conquered egypt?
- Black Kushites
- Assyrians
- Alexander the Great
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Wife of Amenhotep
Nefertiti
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When were the temples of Karnak started?
New Kingdom
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