This began just 5,000 years ago after the Agricultural Revolution.
What is civilization?
100
The Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Chinese and Meso-Americans all independently developed this?
What is writing?
100
These two options were the only way that settled groups could maintain their way of life.
What is raiding other agriculturalists for food or more intensive forms of agriculture?
100
Pulling this shaped piece of wood through soil can be much more effective at breaking up the ground for sowing.
What is the plow?
100
This lead to the beginnings of mathematics, astronomy, and knowing the best time of year to plant crops, even if it was considered magic initially.
What are calendars based on the moon and sun?
200
This resulted in some people being freed from agricultural activities to concentrate on craft work, prepare for warfare or exchange local products.
What is the existence of a surplus of food for the first time?
200
These came to symbolize the continuity and preservation of social life.
What are grain stores?
200
These men became known as the first priests.
Who were the storehouse superintendents?
200
This work required the cooperation of dozens or even hundreds of households and encouraged a division between those who supervised work and those who undertook it.
What is building and maintaining regular irrigation channels?
200
This is the time when civilization first started?
What is about 5,000 years ago?
300
This disproves any claim that one group of the world's people are somehow 'superior' to other.
What is the formation of towns and cities independently in several different locations?
300
This involves making marks on stone or clay to keep a record of incoming and outgoing stockpiles.
What was writing?
300
These men had leisure time to predict future movements and events such as eclipses that gave them a near magical status.
Who were the temple guardians?
300
This device increased the division of labor between the sexes since it was a form of heavy labor not easily done by women bearing children.
What is the plow?
300
These time periods occurred when Eurasia and Africa obtained these elements from rocks.
What are the Bronze and Copper Ages?
400
Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, Kish and Ur are all examples of this.
What are towns that grew into the first cities?
400
These were the first two civilizations to develop writing.
What are Mesopotamian and Meso-American civilizations.
400
Storehouses changed into these over time.
What are temples?
400
This innovation protected crops from flooding.
What is building dams and ditches?
400
These two things became common in the later stages of the neolithic revolution in Europe. They were commonly used to kill people.
What are stone battle axes and flint daggers?
500
The palace at Knossos Greece is just one example of this.
What is the first indications of Civilization?
500
These early civilizations reached a high degree of development without writing.