Learn about Ancient Civilizations: 10000 B.C. - 500 A.D.
The period 10,000 B.C. to 500 A.D. saw the birth of society and the rise and fall of great civilizations. Farming and the domestication of animals transformed clans that previously depended on hunting and gathering. By 5000 B.C. irrigation produce enough food for people to settle in villages. Tools were first crafted in stone then later as bronze, copper and iron.
The wheel, the ox-drawn plow and clay pottery also came into use. The rhythms of farming and the turn of seasons had a mystical aspect. The first urban societies were organized around to worship with deities. Among the legacies of the period are mathematics, instruments to measure time and painting and sculpture as art forms.
Writing systems invented in Sumer about 3000 B.C. began the age of recorded history. The civilizations of this are relic remarkable treasures. The pyramids of Egypt, monuments to engineering genius and a belief in the after life. The Epic of Gilgamesh in Hammurabi’s Code from Babylonia, Judaism and Christianity from the Middle East and Buddhism from India. The empires of Greece and Rome built the foundation of Western Civilization. In politics and government, philosophy and drama, the arts and language, in fact the word history comes from the Ancient Greek for knowledge.
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