Leakey -First Humans - Great Rift Valley in East Africa
Bantu Migration – Spread of Language and Metallurgy
Neolithic Revolution – Domestication of Plants and Animals
Neolithic Revolution – Farming, Permanent Settlement, and
Civilization Began
Neolithic Revolution – Turning Point – 4 River Valley Civilizations
1) Mesopotamia – Land Between Two Rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)
Babylon – Hammurabi Code
Mesopotamia – Irrigation
System
Epic of Gilgamesh – an Epic Poem from
Mesopotamia
2) China – Huang He – River of Sorrow
Confucius – Filial Piety and 5 Relationships
Shi Huangdi – Legalism, Great Wall, and Terracotta
Himalayas Separated China from India ( No Cultural Diffusion)
3) Egypt – River Nile - Irrigation
4) India – Indus River, Ganges River, and Deccan Plateau
India – Hinduism, Ganges River, and Vedas
Hinduism – Caste System, Dharma, and Reincarnation
India’s Golden Age – Gupta Empire
Gupta Empire – Buddhism, Ajanta Caves
Greece – Mountainous – City States
Athens – Philosophers, Democracy, and Parthenon
Hellenistic Age- Cultural Diffusion
Roman Empire – Mediterranean Sea
Roman Twelve Tables - Laws
Constantine Made Christianity Official Religion
The Fall of the Roman Empire - Barbarians