Early civilizations and religions

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  • 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic era

    Paleolithic era
    relied on hunting and gathering for food. and lived in caves.
  • 8000 BCE

    Neolithic era

    Neolithic era
    Start of agriculture and villages.
  • 8000 BCE

    Hinduism

    Hinduism
    Views the entire universe as gods and everything in the universe as gods.
  • 4100 BCE

    sumerians

    sumerians
    Known for their innovations in language, governance, and architecture.
  • 4000 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    Mesopotamia
    First urban civilization.
  • 3000 BCE

    Jerusalem

    Jerusalem
    Its earliest known name may be Jebusite, the translation of a Canaanite town. Together with the later arriving Philistines, they are believed to be the earliest known ancestors to present day Palestinians.
  • 2334 BCE

    Akkadian

    Akkadian
    They developed the first postal system, delivering clay tablet messages in clay envelopes. The Akkadian language is the oldest surviving cuneiform script.
  • 2000 BCE

    babylon

    babylon
    served as a center of Mesopotamian civilization for nearly two millennia.
  • 1800 BCE

    Judaism

    Judaism
    one of the oldest monotheistic religions. Jews believe that God appointed the Jews to be his chosen people in order to set an example of holiness and ethical behaviour to the world.
  • 1800 BCE

    Israelites

    Israelites
    a Hebraic group of people who lived in the ancient Middle East.they wrote and codified the Hebrew Bible, largely the same material as the Christian Old Testament, and are considered the ancestors to the world's Jewish population of today.
  • 1750 BCE

    shang dynasty

    shang dynasty
    first major rulers of china.They were known for their advances in math, astronomy, artwork and military technology.Dec 13, 2017
  • 1500 BCE

    Phoenicians

    Phoenicians
    The core of Phoenician territory was the city-state of Tyre, in what-is-now Lebanon. Primarily remembered as adept sailors and cunning merchants.
  • 1400 BCE

    Hittites

    Hittites
    an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in modern day Turkey
  • 900 BCE

    Assyrians

    Assyrians
    started off as a major regional power in Mesopotamia.mainly remembered for its military victories, technological advancements (such as using iron for weapons and building roads), use of torture to inspire fear, and a written history of conquests.
  • 610 BCE

    Islam

    Islam
    The Islamic empire spread from the Middle East, west to North Africa and Spain and east to India. Important early Islamic cities were Baghdad (in modern-day Iraq), Córdoba (in Spain) and Cairo (in Egypt).
  • 550 BCE

    Persians

    Persians
    founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and the fall of the Sassanian Empire in 651 CE
  • 543 BCE

    Buddhism

    Buddhism
    Buddhism arose in Ancient India, in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha, and is based on the teachings of the renunciate Siddhārtha Gautama.
  • 3

    Christianity

    Christianity
    Early Christianity contains the Apostolic Age and is followed by, and substantially overlaps with, the Patristic era. The Apostolic sees claim to have been founded by one or more of the apostles of Jesus, who are said to have dispersed from Jerusalem sometime after the crucifixion of Jesus, c.
  • 30

    Roman catholic

    Roman catholic
    As a branch of Christianity, Roman Catholicism can be traced to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in Roman-occupied Jewish Palestine
  • 1517

    protestant

    protestant
    Martin Luther, a German teacher and a monk, brought about the Protestant Reformation when he challenged the Catholic Church's teachings