World history

By AFWitt
  • 3500 BCE

    Cuneiform

    Cuneiform
    System of writing developed by the ancient sumerians. It's considered the most significant of many cultural contributions from Sumerians.
  • 3300 BCE

    Hieroglyphics

    Hieroglyphics
    Hieroglyphics are symbols ancient Egyptians used to tell stories. They were carved into clay tablets, in stone, and on temple walls. We know what the stories say because of the "Rosetta Stone".
  • 2600 BCE

    First indoor plumbing

    First indoor plumbing
    The harappan created the first plumbing. They had toilets and bathing holes. They has suer systems that went down the side of the street
  • 2600 BCE

    Mummification

    Mummification
    Ancient Egypt people would use mummification to prepare people for the after life. They used canopic jars to store certain body parts. They stored the stomach, lungs, liver, and intestines because they thought they would need them in the afterlife.
  • 2500 BCE

    Nuclear bomb theory

    Nuclear bomb theory
    The nuclear bomb theory was one of the theories on what happened to the harappans. People think a necular bomb went off and killed everyone. It might not of really happened but there's a chance.
  • 2500 BCE

    Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh
    Gilgamesh is an urban legend. He's a superhuman that has amazing strengths. His name means the ancestor is a young man
  • 1600 BCE

    Invention of silk

    Invention of silk
    The Chinese learned how to make silk in 1300 BC. They took the worms that ate mull berry leaves and waited until they made a cocoon. Once the cocoon was made they boil it in hot water
  • 1500 BCE

    Olmecs

    Olmecs
    Considered the mother culture because if tombs. Carved faces into 40 ton bolders.
  • 1250 BCE

    Fu hao

    Fu hao
    Fu hao was the wife of Wu Ding (leader of Shang dynasty). She served as a military general. She was a shaman/priestess
  • 605 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar

    Nebuchadnezzar
    created one of the seven wonders of the world (hanging flowers of Babylon). They were described as remarkable. They were have said to look like a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks.
  • 220 BCE

    Great Wall of China

    Great Wall of China
    The Great Wall of China is 5,500 miles long and would take more than a year to walk. It was built to keep enemies out of China so they couldn't steal their things it kill them. The Great Wall first started being built in 220 BCE and took thousands of years to build the wall that China has today