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Egypt	4000 - 3500 Sumerian language & script in its city-state Uruk: clerks recorded wages 3200 BC Sumerian cuneiform script uses stylus and clay tablets 3400BC Egyptian hieroglypic script developed probably influenced by Sumeria 3400 - 3200 Religion: sun god Ra: Horus and Seth 3100 King Menes: N. & S. Egypt united God Ptah: creator of world, patron of craftsmen	3000 - 2000BC 2400 Egypt concept: life after death 2200 Egypt advanced into Nubia 2040 -1786: Egyptian coffin texts and papyri contain myths, spells, rituals	2000 - 1000BC Amun-Re a synthesis of Thebian god Amun and Heliopitan god Re 1478 - 1457BC Hathepsut. Black pharaoh; First female pharaoh; She was powerful leader who led armies into battle; trade prospered; 1457 BC Tuthmosis III, her son became Pharaoh; great conqueror 1379 - 1362BC Black pharaoh Akhenaton & Queen Neferti Akhenaton introduced monotheism (Aton as god of universe) and reformed religious laws Abolished power of priesthood and worship of multiple dieties: Nut (sky); Thoth (moon); Amon-re or Amen (Sun) Humanized pharaoh 2000-1200 BC Tutankhamen	1000BC -AD 753 - 713 BC Piankhi, Black Nubian king united lands of Kusk, Nubia and Meroe. He conquered Egypt in response to unfair taxing imposed when Egypt ruled Nubia. His kingdom stretched to Ethiopia. He (re)established trade with Assyria, India, Asia	BC - AD 300BC Erastosthenes, scholar calculated earth's circumference using Ashwan well
Other, Iraq, Iran, Pheonicians...	4000 - 3000	3000 - 2000	2000 - 1000	1000 - AD 900 BC cult of god Baal in Pheonician city; 600BC Zoroatrian monotheistic religion develops in Iran	BC - AD 391AD - 1400AD Arab scholars protect Greek scholarship from Christian destruction including Ptolemy's research 610 AD Mohammad announces He is the Seal of Prophets, founder of Islam, a monotheistic religion worshipping God Allah. He claims descendancy from Abraham, Moses and Christ with equal station. 1154 AD Al-Idrisi: Arab-(Islamic?) geographer in a Sicilian court created a world map influenced by Ptolemy 1312 - 1337AD Black Emperor Mansa Musa I of Mali, one of richest kingdoms on earth Mali controlled Saharan trade routes Mana Musa I converted to Islam and Mali became an Islamic nation Timbuktu became world centre for Islamic studies Mali population were highly literate in Arabic 1324 Mana Musa made his pilgrimmage to Mecca with 10,000 people. The gold he brought to Cairo caused a decade of inflation 1400 Mapmakers replace theology with knowledgeable reports of explorers Marco Polo, etc. Mathematical cartography
Jewish-Semites	4000 - 3000	3000 - 2000	2000 - 1200: semitic languages: Akkadians, Assyro-Babylonians, Amorites, Araniens, Pheniciens, Arabes, Hebrews, Ethiopians 1300 Moses born: gave Hebrews: Nation, Religion, Law 1250 Exodus from Egypt to Palestine Canaanites (Semites settled in Syria Temple built by Pheonician craftsmen on Canaanite and Phoenician model 1050 - 1000 BC Saul first King of Jews 1100 - 1050 Philistines, a trading people conquered Jews 1050 BC Israelites tribes rules by judges; assimilate Canaanite ideas 1050BC Yahweh of Moses absorbed features of Canaanite deities	1000 - AD 961 - 922BC Solomon Temple built in Jerusalem 960 - 930BC Black Queen of (Sheba), Makeba, founder of one of most important families in African history. Rulers of Ethiopia for 3000 years. Travelled to Israel to meet Solomon renowned as great leader. Married Solomon and converted to Judaism. Her son, Ibn al-Hakim (Menelik later David) from Solomon was born in Ethiopia. Visited Solomon in Israel. Founded new rich kingdom. Ethiopians would later conquer Egypt. 950-900BC Solomon died Israelites in north separated from Judah in south 874 - 853BC Jezebel wife of King of Israel built temple to Baal Elijah slayed Jezebel 859-825 Black odalisque: King Jehru of Israel 800 BC; Isahiah prophecizes fall of Israel 732 Assyrians conquered Israel	BC AD
Greek	4000 - 3000	3000 - 2000	2000 - 1000 1200 Aryan gods introduced to Greece (Zeus, Apollo, Hermes) Replaced Minoan gods Phoenician alphabet ends dark ages in Greece Greek Dorian period Athens, Thebes, Sparta developed	1000 - AD Greek alphabet advanced: includes vowels Trading fleet in Indian Ocean 850-800BC orgiastic cult of nature: Dionysius or Bacchus from Thrace and Phrygia 470 - 399BC Socrates: Athenian Greek: never wrote, was written by Aristophanes his enemy, Xenophon and Plato Socrates was accused of being a traitor to Athen's cause in the Peloponnese wars; His sentence: to drink poison. His crime: corruption of youth; impiety towards the gods 384 - 322BC. Alexander the Great's preceptor 427 - 347 BC Plato, Socrates' disciple. His principles works have become the foundation of western philosophy through Aristotle, the Fathers of the Christianity, Islamic philosophy, Medeival, the Renaissance and certain aspects of contemporary logic idealism Aristotle: 384 - 322 BCE: Powerful philosophical system. Plato's student. 337 BCE Started the Lyceum in Athens. Influenced theology of medieval Christians and the early years of Islamic science and philosophy;	BC AD 150 AD Ptolemy: Greek geographer, astronomer complied centuries of Greek learning in his book 'Geography' He devloped system for organizing maps according to latitude and longtitude He suggested scale, proportions, fractions, ratios Romans used Greek theory of mapping for practical purposes: boundaries, roads, journeys, maps 391 AD Christians mobs sacked Alexandrian library and Ptolemy's research was lost until 1400 AD
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Religion & Philosophy Abraham: 19th century BCE. Patriarch of Jewish, Christians and Moslems. Considered by some to be origin of monotheism. From Ur to Palestine. Son Isaac (born of Sarah) became father of Jacob and Esau. Jacob sons prophecized as twelve tribes of Israel. Abraham's son Ismael (born of Agar) ancestor of arabs	4000 - 3000BC	3000 - 2000BC	2000 - 1000BC	1000 - AD	BC - AD
Science & Technology	4000 - 3000 BC	3000 - 2000 BC	2000 - 1000 BC 1200s: Phoenician alphabet introduced to Greece	1000 - AD 800s Greek alphabet advanced 300BC Erastosthenes, scholar calculated earth's circumference using Ashwan well	BC - AD 150 AD Ptolemy: Greek geographer, astronomer complied centuries of Greek learning in his book 'Geography' He devloped system for organizing maps according to latitude and longtitude He suggested scale, proportions, fractions, ratios Romans used Greek theory of mapping for practical purposes: boundaries, roads, journeys, maps 391 AD Christians mobs sacked Alexandrian library and Ptolemy's research was lost until 1400 AD 391AD - 1400AD Arab scholars archive and use Ptolemy's research 1154 Al-Idrisi: Arab-(Islamic?) geographer in a Sicilian court created a world map influenced by Ptolemy 1400 Mapmakers replace theology with knowledgeable reports of explorers Marco Polo, etc. Mathematical cartography
Art & Music	4000 - 3000BC	3000 - 2000BC	2000 - 1000BC	1000BC - AD Song of Songs attr. to Solomon: psalmes	BC - AD
Literature	4000 - 3000BC	3000 - 2000BC	2000 - 1000BC	1000 BC Ballad of Trojan Wars Homer's Odyssey & Illiad	BC - AD