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Early Civilization Matrix

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EARLY CIVILIZATIONS MATRIX

CIVILIZATION |politics |society/ economics |technology |art |music |architecture |philosophy |literature | |Prehistoric |Establish-
ments of large social entities
7 million '' 10,000 B.C.E. |Fossil remains of near-human or proto-human creature known as Hominids
7 million-10,000 B.C.E. |Tool and weapon making
20,000 B.C.E. |Paintings and carvings on walls of caves and surface of rocks
15,000 B.C.E. |Ancient music in most of Europe (1500 B.C.E) |Neolithic architecture
10,000 B.C.E.
|Intimate association with nature
10,000 B.C.E. |Animism transmit information by way of symbols
8000 B.C.E. | |Mesopotamian |Believed their kings and queens were descended from the city gods, but never believed their kings were gods
8000 B.C.E. |Clay tokens used to tally goods
Sumer developed the first economy. Babylonians developed the earliest system of economics
8000 B.C.E.
|Metalworking, copper-working, glass making, lamp making, textile weaving, flood control, water storage, and irrigation.
Iron was introduced
Windmills employed
1700 B.C.E. |Bull man appears frequently in their art
8000 B.C.E.
Terracotta plaque “Queen of the Night”
1800 B.C.E. |Some songs were written for the gods but many were written to describe important events
3500 B.C.E. |Concentrates on temples, palaces, city walls and gates
2627 B.C.E.
|Embodied certain philosophies of life, particularly ethics, in the forms of dialectic, dialogs, epic poetry, folklore, hymns, lyrics, prose, and proverbs around
2000 B.C. |The finest literary work is the Epic of Gilamesh, recorded on clay tablets around 2000 B.C. | |Ancient Egyptian |Political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh “the law of the land is the mouth of the pharaoh”
3000 B.C.E. |Individuals of any class could rise in status by way of education.
3000 B.C.E. |Construction of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh’. Employ a simple form of the sundial,...