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Paleolithic age
Period of civilization: 2.5 millions ago until 10,000 B.C
Location: from Africa until South America
Religious perspective: animism
2 main innovations or discoveries: They domesticated animals and they built houses.
Social organization: No social organization in the Paleolithic age
2 main activities: Hunting and domesticating animals
Recorded language used: Painting drawing and cave paintings -
Neolithic age
Period of the civilization: 10,000 B.C - 5,000 B.C
Location: The fertile crescent
Religious perspective: They do rites related with the climate and crops
2 main innovations or discoveries: agriculture, livestock, invention of writing, houses,
Social organization: No social organization in the Neolithic age
2 main activities: agriculture and livestock
Recorded language used: Writing -
Egyptian civilization
Period of the civilization: 3,100 B.C -332 B.C
Location : Next to the nile river in North Africa
Religious perspective: They have many gods and goodness related with the climate and the crops
2 main innovations or discoveries: exchange of culture and ideas, writing system, monumental architecture, continue with mathematics
Social organization: according to their occupations
2 main activities: agriculture and trading
Recorded language used: hieroglyphic -
Chinese civilization
Period of the civilization: 2,000 B.C- 220 B.C
Location: China-Asia
Religious perspective: Confucianism
2 main innovations or discoveries: The tea, the graves, their weapons, the Great Wall of china.
Social organization: Dynasties
2 main activities: praise gods and contract somethings for them, and Agriculture
Recorded language used: Written -
Mesopotamia
Period of the civilization: 5,000 B.C - 3,300 B.C
Location: Fertile Crescent
Religious perspective: They have many Gods and Goddess
2 main innovations or discoveries: advance mathematics, the wheel, the chariot, a writing system called cuneiform
Social organization:The king and nobility, the priests and priestesses, the upper class, the lower class, and the slaves
2 main activities:Agriculture and domestication of animals
Recorded language used: the cuneiform -
India civilization
Period of the civilization:7,000 B.C.E
Location: South Asia
Religious perspective: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism
2 main innovations or discoveries: mathematics, science, dentistry, and flush toilet systems.
Social organization: Gods, Bahrain, kshatryia, vaishya, sudra, and the untouchables
2 main activities: Religion, agriculture
Recorded language use: written
