Download Factoids/Timeline

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Identifying Factoids
What is a Factoid? A factoid is an important person, place, event, or historical theme that made a significant mark in history by either
influencing much, signaling new changes, or leaving behind a lasting legacy. Factoids, like vocabulary words, should be practiced and memorized.
Notecards that can be used as practice flashcards will come in handy for studying and remembering these important moments in history.
Chapter:___1____ Title:_______________RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS______________________
FACTOIDS
Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Agricultural Revolution
Holocene Era
Catal Huyuk / Jericho
Fertile Crescent
Epic of Gilgamesh
Hammurabi’s Code
Ziggurat
Cuneiform
Pyramids (Giza)
Hieroglyphics
Papyrus
Book of the Dead
Harappa / Mohenjo-Daro
DEFINITION / SIGNIFICANCE
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Identifying Periodization
What is a Timeline? A timeline is the plotting of events throughout the span of time in chronological order of their occurrence.
Historians
often utilize timelines to explain trends, patterns, eras, or changes in human interaction over the centuries. It will become very important to use time
as a tool to understanding change. Any important dates or periods of time that show significance or influence should be recorded.
Chapter:___1____ Title:___PREHISTORY / RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS____________________
DATE(S)
SUBJECT / SIGNIFICANCE
2 million BC – 8000 BC
Paleolithic Age
1st evidence of human use of fire
Last Ice Age
1st evidence of human cave art
1st evidence of human woven cloth
Neolithic Age
Jericho urban site
Catal Huyuk urban site
1st villages along Nile River
1st evidence of human use of seagoing boats
1st evidence of human use of plows
1st evidence of human beer drinking (Middle East)
Bronze Age
Narmer unites Upper & Lower Egypt
1st evidence of human building of canals (Mesopotamia)
Djoser commissions 1st stepped pyramid (Saqqara, Egypt)
Indus River Valley civilization flourishes
Great Pyramids constructed for pharaohs (Giza, Egypt)
Egyptians develop cursive script on papyrus
1.5 million BC – 1 million BC
32,000 BC – 11,000 BC
30,000 BC
24,000 BC
8,000 BC – 3,500 BC
8,000 BC
7,000 BC – 5,000 BC
5,500 BC
5,000 BC
4,000 BC
3,500 BC
3,500 BC – 1,000 BC
3,100 BC
3,000 BC
2,630 BC
2,600 BC – 1,900 BC
2,550 BC – 2,490 BC
2,500 BC
2,350 BC
Sargon conquers Mesopotamian city-states (Akkadian Empire)
2,112 BC – 2004 BC
3rd Dynasty of Ur dominates Mesopotamia
1st evidence of full-time paid armies (Mesopotamia)
Indus Valley urban sites mysteriously abandoned
Old Babylonian Kingdom
Rule of Hammurabi at Babylon
2,000 BC
1,900 BC
1,900 BC – 1,600 BC
1,792 BC – 1,750 BC