AP World History Timeline- Period 1 10,000 BCE-600 BCE
8000 BCE - 3000 BCE
The development of sedentary agriculture leads to the settlement of nomads into stratified society, with job specialization, religion and cities, and forming civilizations.
Farming Communities in the Mesopotamian River Valley
6000 BCE
Farming communities appear in the Fertile Crescent that influenced many different things such as population.
Experimentation with Agriculture in Egypt
People in Egypt learned to plant crops like barley and wheat after the flooding of the Nile River.
Hieroglyphics Developed in Egypt
In Ancient Egypt, they developed hieroglyphics: Ancient Egyptian written language made up of pictographs, and this shaped modern writing and literature.
Development of Indus River Valley Civilization
This civilization was developed in the centers of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
The Sumerian peoples develop a civilization in the southern part of Mesopotamia. Ur, Erech, and Kish are the major city states.
King Hammurabi of Babylon Reigns
Hammurabi's achievements include regular taxation, organized central bureaucracy, Code of Hammurabi: distinguished between major and minor offenses, connected crimes with specific punishments.
Shang Dynasty in China
Shang Dynasty develops along the Yellow River. Oracle bones, on which predictions about the future were written, tell us much about the future were written, tell us much about this time period. Achievements: development of Chinese pictograph characters, ideographs, horse-drawn chariots, bronze metallurgy, ethnocentrism of China, spoked wheel, pottery, silk, and the calendar decimal system.
Aryans Enter the Indian Subcontinent
Through the Khyber Pass, the Aryans, a nomadic people of Indo-European origin, enter the Indus River Valley and establish a racial mix in modern-day India. Their influence permeates much of Indian society, ex: caste system.
Babylonians Take Power over the Akkadians
Akkad once dominated Sumer, but Babylon defeats them and becomes the new powerhouse in Mesopotamia.