Leakey -First Humans - Great Rift Valley in East Africa

Bantu Migration

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