Timeline

  • Metal Age
    50,000 BCE

    Metal Age

    -Bronze Age: The first human settlement and metal working
    -Iron Age: Iron working, sophisticated religious and agricultural process
  • Stone Age
    40,000 BCE

    Stone Age

    -Characterized by the creation and the use of stone tools: bone and wood.
    -They started the burial of the dead people.
    -Music and early art appears
    -Agricultural Revolution
    -Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic
  • Hunts
    40,000 BCE

    Hunts

    -The fist dwelling, it was utilitarian hunt in terra amata, France
    -It was divided by areas of working or gathering and the heart of the place is where they make the fire.
  • Lascaux
    17,000 BCE

    Lascaux

    -It was discovered in 1940. Inside of it we can find different kind of paintings that represent their daily life, that include animals like horses, deers and bulls.
    -It was a shelter and a sanctuary
    -"The Bird Man" is an important paint and the most popular.
  • Jericho, Jordan
    9600 BCE

    Jericho, Jordan

    -800mt long wall and and 9mt in diameter circular tower
  • Caralflöyük, Turkey
    8000 BCE

    Caralflöyük, Turkey

    -Popular uno of 4-6000 recidents, it was an unfortified settlement, it had an residential layout
  • Summarian Empire
    5000 BCE

    Summarian Empire

    -All the cities of the world
  • Writing system
    4500 BCE

    Writing system

    -Cuneiform (first writing system)
  • Construction Methods
    4500 BCE

    Construction Methods

    -Post and beam construction
    -Arched construction (aka vaulted construction)
  • Early farming communities
    4000 BCE

    Early farming communities

  • Newgrange
    3200 BCE

    Newgrange

    -Ireland
    -Ancient temple
    -Communal graves for cremated os skeletal remains
    -Reverence for ancestors
    -Claiming for land
  • The chariot
    3200 BCE

    The chariot

    -An instrument to help them cary things.
  • City states organization
    3000 BCE

    City states organization

  • Linel and post
    2900 BCE

    Linel and post

  • Salisbury Plain
    2900 BCE

    Salisbury Plain

    -England
    -The ability to work large stones and to observe astronomical episodes
  • 2370 BCE

    Irrigation systems

    -water canals
  • Mud brick
    2300 BCE

    Mud brick

    -They were bricks made of mud and sun dried
  • Sargon of Akkad
    2279 BCE

    Sargon of Akkad

  • Ziggurat
    2100 BCE

    Ziggurat

    -Ur
    -Temple
  • Hammurabi
    1811 BCE

    Hammurabi

  • 1609 BCE

    Orthogonal geometry

    -Main characteristic of Assyrian architecture and planning
  • Sailboats
    1300 BCE

    Sailboats

  • 1200 BCE

    Babylonia

  • Babel Tower
    616 BCE

    Babel Tower

  • Nabuchadnezzar ii
    605 BCE

    Nabuchadnezzar ii

  • Persepolis
    600 BCE

    Persepolis

    -Gate of all nations
  • Ishtar gate
    529 BCE

    Ishtar gate

  • Artemis Temple
    400 BCE

    Artemis Temple

  • The light house of Alexandria
    280 BCE

    The light house of Alexandria