Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

• Mesopotamia

• Sumerian city-states
• Ur, Uruk, Lagash
• Agriculture
• Artisans
• Ziggurats
• Ensi
• Cuneiform
• Religion
• Akkadian Empire.
• Sargon
• Amorites (Old Babylonians)
• Code of Hammurabi
• Assyrian Empire
• Chaldean Empire

African Civilization

• African Civilization

• Egyptian Civilization
• Upper and Lower Egypt united, 3000 B.C.E.
• Old Kingdom, 2700-2200 B.C.E.
• Pharaoh
• Religion
• Pyramids
• Middle Kingdom, 2050-1750 B.C.E.
• Hieroglyphs
• Hyksos, 1750-1550
• Horse-drawn chariots
• New Kingdom, 1550-1150 B.C.E.
• Amenhotep IV (Akhnaton), 1369-1353 B.C.E.
• The Kushite Kingdom
• Meroë
• Iron production

Amerindian Civilization

• Amerindian Civilization

• Chavin culture, 900-200 B.C.E.
• Olmec Culture, 1400-500 B.C.E.
• Traders, farmers
• Spread of Olmec culture
• La Venta
• Temples
• Heads

Early Aegean Civilization

• Early Aegean Civilization

• Minoan Civilization, 2000-1450 B.C.E.
• Knossos, Crete
• Writing and trade
• Indo -Europeans
• Origins north of the Black Sea
• Linguistic roots
• Patriarchal society
• Hittites, 1600-1200 B.C.E.
• Mycenaeans, 1600-1200 B.C.E.
• Indo-European
• Trojan War
• Dorians
• The Greek Dark Age, c. 1100-c. 750 B.C.E