Greece and Rome

Neolithic Revolution

9500 BCE

The Neolithic Revolution was a gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities to agriculture and settlement. This period is described as a "revolution" because it changed the way of life of communities which made the change.

Babylon and Hammarabi's Code

1754 BCE

The code of Hammurabi is a code of law (It was just a bunch of laws). Hammurabi created these rules because he wanted peace and justice in his kingdom. Hammurabi's code was the first legal document of laws and it also helped make a system of writing called cuneiform.

Ancient Rome

753 BCE

Rome became an empire in the wake of Julius Caesar’s rise and fall. The long reign of its first emperor, Augustus, began a golden age of peace and prosperity; by contrast, the empire’s decline and fall by the fifth century A.D. was one of the most dramatic implosions in the history of human civilization.

The Middle Ages

500 BCE

The Middle Ages was a time in European history before the modern era. Germans began crossing the frontiers of the Roman Empire, in part because of the advance of ferocious warriors from the Huns

Ancient Greece

478 BCE

Ancient Greece saw advances in art, poetry and technology, but most of all it was the age in which the polis, or city-state, was invented. The polis became the defining feature of Greek political life for hundreds of years. The most known city states were Athens and Sparta.