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The First Civilizations
By: Jaylen #22, Jackson #9 and
Aitiana #18
The Paleolithic age
• They were Nomads. They lived in crude and
easy, movable houses.(like the tee-pee;also lived
in caves)
• The Paeolithic invented: Fire, spears, traps, and
bows and arrows. They also invented crude
tools,nets,baskets,clothing, cave paintings and
other tools made from animal bones.
• The Paeolithic people hunted
fish,buffalo,bison,wooly mammoths and other
types of animals.
• They never really stayed in one place that long
because they followed animal herds.(Nomad:
Groups who usually move from place to place).
• The Paleolithic people were the first people to use
technology.
The Neolithic age
• The Neolithic people invented farming,
communities, weapons` and tools.
• They domesticated animals(tamed),
animals provided meat, milk and wool,
they also carried goods and pulled carts
for the Neolithic people.
• They grew
barely,beans,cocoa,coffee,cotton,emmer,f
lax and many…many more.
• They started the Farming Revolution.
• They made pottery and carved objects
out of wood .
• They also built shelters and tombs. They
also herd animals.
Mesopotamia
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They lived between the Tigris and
Euphrates River.
They also invented the
wheel,irrigation,calender,sailboat,
writing, (cuneiform) math(60 min. and
hour) and plow.
They had many gods and they a built
temple called a “Ziggurat” to praise
them.
There were city-states and they had their
own government, king and god.
• City-states formed in Mesopotamia
such as Sumer and many more.
Assyrians
• They lived North near the Tigris and
Euphrates River.
• The Assyrian army was well organized.
• They were the first large army to use iron
weapons.
• They conquered many city-states in
Mesopotamia.
• They had a powerful, brutal and
ferocious army to keep power.
• They had a very strict army and because
of that they had very brutal
punishments.
• They had 7-day weeks.
• They invented libraries.
Chaldeans
• The Chaldeans wanted to build an
empire led by King Nebuchadnezzar.
• They controlled all of Mesopotamia
from 605-562 B.C.
• They were the largest and richest citystate.
• Artisans made pottery, cloth,and
jewelry.
• King Nebuchadnezzar built the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon to please
his wife.
• They Chaldeans sold their wares to
passing caravans or groups of
traveling merchants.
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Timeline
8000 B.C.-Paleolithic age ends.
8000 B.C.-Neolithic age begins.
8000-4000 B.C.-New Stone Age
3000-1200 B.C.-People started mixing copper and tin.
2340 B.C.-Sargon conquers all of Mesopotamia.
1800’s B.C.-Babylon was built.
1792 B.C.-Hammurabi started conquering city-states
North and South of the Babylon Empire.
1750 B.C.-Hammurabi made 282 laws.
750 B.C.-Assyrians came.
650 B.C.-Assyrians empire stretched from the Persian
Gulf into the Nile River. Assyrians started fighting
each other over who would be their new king.
612 B.C.-Assyrian empire crumbled.
?-Mesopotamia
605-562 B.C.-Chaldeans controlled all of
Mesopotamia.
539 B.C.-Persians captured Babylon.
Concluding
• Jaylen!#22  , Jackson!#9 and
Aitiana #18 
• THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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