SOL Intervention Spring 2011Innovations and Inventions

Stone toolsPaleolithic

FirePaleolithic

Pottery and weavingNeolithic Period

Oral language Paleolithic Age

Domesticated animals

Neolithic

Cave artPaleolithic Age

Domesticated plants/AgricultureNeolithic

Use of Metals bronze and iron River Valley civilizations

Worlds first cities

River valley civilization

MonotheismJudaism

HieroglyphicsEgypt

CuneiformSumer/Mesopotamia

AlphabetPhoenician

Imperial bureaucracy and Road systemPersian Empire

Math: Zero 0, medical: setting bones, Astronomy: round earthIndia (Gupta)

3 3 = 0

Civil service examClassical China

Paper, porcelain, and silkClassical China

First democracyAthens

DramaGreeks; Aeschylus and Sophocles

First historiansGreeks; Herodotus and Thucydides

Doric, Ionic, and CorinthianGreek types of columns

Greek Pythagoras

PhilosophyGreeks; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

First RepublicRome

Pantheon, Colosseum, and ForumRoman structures

Roads, Aqueducts, and ArchesRomeARCHES

innocent until proven guiltyRoman law

Icons, Mosaics, & Hagia SophiaByzantine Empire

Dome of the RockIslam

Arabic AlphabetIslam

AlgebraIslam

Manor with castleEuropean Middle Age

Printing and paper moneyChina

CompassChina

Lateen sailIndian Ocean region

Western hemisphere: Calendars, mathematics, writing and other record keepingMaya, Aztecs, and Inca

Moveable type printing press and the production of booksEuropean RenaissanceGutenberg Bible