Time Line from 8000 BCE to 600 CE

The development of sedentary agriculture leads to the settlement of nomads into stratified society, with job specialization, religion and cities, forming civilizations

This signals a shift away from stone tools and weapons, as well as, the developing of trade routes, and ideographic and syllabic writing.

A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the bronze age this area included Sumer & the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires. They created the invention of the wheel and contains the fertile crescent

The Sumerian peoples developed a civilization in the southern part of Mesopotamia. Responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions

This civilization was gifted of the Nile river that produced reeds, copper, stone and clay. Small king ruled state into upper and lower kingdoms.

The first Chinese civilization that included flooding and irrigation. This civilization was isolated but had many pictographs and ideographic symbols.

This is characterized by a shift in tools and weapons, as well as, the introduction of alphabetic characters and the development of written language.

Reunited Mesopotamia in 1830 BCE with Hammurabi’s laws and codes. Their civilization had an economy with wool, agriculture and trade.

Contained 282 laws that where written in stone and displayed in the center city town. These were specific to social status and gender of offender.

Babylon falls due to the invasions of the Hittites, who became a military superpower through their knowledge of how to use iron