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3000 BCE
Egypt and prosthetics
The earliest form of a prosthetic is found in Egypt. Egypt is regarded highly for its medical advancements. -
3000 BCE
Bronze Age Start
The Start of the Bronze Age in 3300 BC. Moving from stone tools to bronze was a big step in the future of combat and everyday living. -
2600 BCE
Weighing scale
The oldest evidence of a scale is that of the Egyptian scale. It was used the weigh things if it wasn't clear. It was also used as a way for Anubis to see if a dead person was worthy or not by weighing their heart with a feather of truth. -
1600 BCE
Understanding Anatomy
The Edwin Smith Papyrus described the heart, vessels, liver, spleen, kidneys, hypothalamus, uterus, and bladder. It also had a map of the vessels and how they connected to the heart. -
1500 BCE
Mercury
The earliest known use of Mercury dates to Ancient Egypt. They used Mercury to scare away evil spirits. We now know it is poisonous to the human body. -
1200 BCE
Bronze Age ends, Iron Age Begins
With Bronze becoming harder to come by the bronze age ended. But with the correct way to make steel the iron age had started. -
1180 BCE
The Battle of Troy
The Trojan War was caused by the Queen of Sparta, Helen, being abducted by the Prince of Troy, Paris. King Agamemnon, who was the brother of King Menelaus of Sparta, used the event to rally all the Mycenean Greeks to invade Troy and expand their territory. -
776 BCE
The Olympics start
Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC through 393 AD games were held. These games became what we now know as the Olympics. -
599 BCE
Cartography
The Greeks created cartography to find places and mark them for later. They are the earliest form of a paper map that we know of. -
550 BCE
Iron Age ends
The Iron Age comes to a close. Closely related to the conquest by the Romans. -
Summary
I mostly chose inventions due to how we took the inventions and innovations of the past and built on them to make them better. I also mentioned the Olympics. I included it because it is a timeline because many people watch and participate in today. I felt like most people would touch on only what the book mentioned. So I decided that some focus should be on the inventions and innovations of the ancient Western civilizations.