Early Humans
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
China
100

This is the first art and written communication.

What is cave painting?

100

This is a system of writing using wedge-shaped marks.

What is cuneiform?

100

This is the writing systems of symbols that represented objects, ideas, and sounds.

What are Hieroglyphics?

100

This is known as the first language of Ancient India.

What is Sanskrit?

100

These are some inventions or contributions of ancient China.

What is gunpowder, paper, the compass, printing, Bronze Casting, Horse Collar, and the Stirrup?

200

This is the process of farming and cultivating the soil for growing crops.

What is agriculture?

200

These are some inventions or contributions of ancient Mesopotamia.

What is the plow, wheel, sailboat?

200

This helped translate the hieroglyphics.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

200

This is Ancient India's contribution to math.

What is Hindu Arabic numerals, infinity, symbol of zero, decimal value and tens

200

This is the Ancient China's most valuable invention for trade.

What is Silk?

300

This is the process of taming a wild animal for human use.

What is domestication?

300

These were similarities between Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica.

  • All civilizations created dams and canals to provide irrigation, had a stable food supply which fostered trade and helps development outside of agriculture, were polytheistic, and had fertile soil.

300

This a bucket attached to a long pole used to transfer river water to storage basins.



What is a Shadoof?

300

This is the earliest form of sanitary engineering.

What are toilets?

300

This connected Europe and Asia by linking traders from China to the Mediterranean Sea. 

What is the Silk Road?

400

This is a time when humans were growing a steady food supply and using animals to help.

What is agricultural revolution?

400

This is a a self-governing community.

What is a City-state?



400

This is the type of achievement that were used as burial tombs for the kings that would be filled with food and riches to go with them into the afterlife.

What is a Pyramid?

400

They were experts in which type of area in medicine involving trauma (fractures and dislocation).

What is surgery? 

400

This is created by Han Wudi to get a job based on exam scores.



What is civil service exam?

500

This transition led to an increase in food production and made room for job like craftsman.

What is job specialization?

500

This is known as the first written law.

What is Hammurabi's code?

500

This is the process of preserving a body to prevent decomposition.

What is mummification?

500

This is a person that keeps record writing.

Who is a Scribe?

500

This is constructed over hundreds of years by the Qin dynasty to keep the empire safe from invasion.

What is the Great Wall of China?