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Upper Paleolithic
40,000-12,500BC Human burials, fire, tools, abstract thought; Great Goddess, art
Mesolithic
12,500-8500 BC Improved hunting, smaller tools; jewelry
Neolithic
8500-3000BC Agriculture, towns, poetry Jericho Çatalhöyük
Bronze Age
3000-1200 BC
Early Bronze Age
3000 - 2000 BC Sumerians, Egyptians, Cycladic Islanders, Early Helladic Greeks
Middle Bronze Age
2000-1600 BC Babylonians Minoans Middle Helladic Greeks
Late Bronze Age
1600-1200 B.C Indo-Europeans (Hittites, Mycenaeans) Semites (ugaritians, phoenicians, Hebrews)
Iron Age
1200-900BC Also Dark Age, or Proto-Geometric period Assyrians
Geometric Period
900-700 BC Hesiod Homer
Domestication of Goats
8500 BC
Walls of Jericho
7800 BC
Ceramic Pottery
6500 BC
Invention of the Wheel
4500 BC
Invention of Writing
3000 BC
House of Tiles destroyed
2250 BC
Battle of Qadesh
1285 BC
Trojan War
1265 BC
Collapse of Bronze Age
1200 BC
Alphabet appears in Greece
735 BC
Hesiod Theogony
700 BC
Semitic
A term referring to Semites, a number of people of the ancient Near East, from whom the Israelites descended
Babylonians
A group of people who conquered the Sumerians, located in the Fertile Crescent. They had a very famous king named Hammurabi. Hammurabi created nearly 300 laws known as Hammurabi's Code of Laws, the old known legal system based on the concept of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth".
Phoenicians
Semitic-speaking Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. Famous for developing the first alphabet, which was adopted by the Greeks. From major cities such as Tyre and Sidon, these merchants and sailors explored the Mediterranean, and engaged in widespread commerce.
Ugaritians
Ancient semitic people, residing in Syria.
Hebrews
Early group of people who lived in lands between Mesopotamia and Egypt. They developed the religion Judaism.
Assyrians
Known as a warrior people who ruthlessly conquered neighboring countries; their empire stretched from east to north of the Tigris River all the way to centeral Egypt; used ladders, weapons like iron-tipped spears, daggers and swords, tunnels, and fearful military tactics to gain strength in their empire
Indo-European
A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia
Greeks
Known for their culture (such as art, architecture and philosophy). Made up of city-states. Didn't have a large empire or military.
Romans
Ancient people primarily residing in the Italian peninsula, has a great, expansive, and influential empire. Adopted Greek culture.
Hittites
A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. With wealth from the trade in metals and military power based on chariot forces, they vied with New Kingdom Egypt over Syria.
Teutonic
Ancient Germanic peoples
Persians
Ethnic group that settled in what is now Iran. They were rivals for control of Mesopotamia with the Greeks, and later the Arabs.
Indic
Ancient peoples of India
Jericho
Site of an important early agricultural settlement of perhaps 2,000 people in present-day Israel.
Çatalhöyük
Significant Neolithic excavation site found in Turkey/Anatolia
Sumerians
The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture-such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions.
Minoans
The Mediterranean society that formed on the island of Crete and who were a big maritime society.
Sea Peoples
Unknown group of strong warriors who crushed the Hittites and destroyed cities in southwest Asia, who fought the Egyptians for 50 years.
Aegean Sea
A body of water by Mediterranean Sea that touches the borders of Greece & Asia Minor. It also has many islands in it, including Crete.
Anatolia
The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor
Asia Minor
the western Asian peninsula comprising most of modern-day Turkey, known to the Greeks as Anatolia
Atlas Mountains
a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert
Black Sea
Large body of water separating Ukraine from Turkey
Canaan
An ancient name for the land of Israel
Crete
A Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of Greece
Cycladic Islands
Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece
Cyprus
Mediterranean island located south of Turkey/Anatolia
Egypt
This early hamaitic empire has its home along Africa's longest river, with a detailed form of writing.
Fertile Crescent
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Ionia
The territory of Greek settlements on the coast of Anatolia; the main bone of contention between the Greeks and the Persian Empire.
Levant
The eastern Mediterranean region from western Greece to western Egypt.
Libya
Country in North Africa
Mediterranean Sea
A large, almost landlocked arm of the Atlantic Ocean touching Europe, Asia, and Africa
Mesopotamia
A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. In the Bronze Age this area included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires, In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires.
Scythia
Ancient region in southeastern Europe
Sicily
An island in the Mediterranean Sea off the southwest tip of the Italian peninsula
Sumer
The world's first civilization, founded in Mesopotamia, which existed for over 3,000 years.
Syria-Palestine
Mediterranean region located in modern Israel
Troy
an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
Turkey
Eurasian peninsula east of Greece
Ugarit
An ancient city of the Canaanites which was discovered in 1928. Many texts were found there, from which scholars have learned a great deal about the Canaanite religion.
Persia
an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
Phoenicia
A maritime civilization of the Mediterranean that developed extensive trade and communication networks as well as an early alphabetical script (1500 B.C.E).
Chaos
Chasm, gap, yawn, the beginning of creation in Hesiod's Theogony
Erebos
Darkness; child of Chaos
Night (Nyx)
child of chaos
Aether
Air. Daughter to Nyx and Erebus. Sister to Hemera (Day) and Light.
Gaia
goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology
Ouranos
Sky god, son of Gaia who mated with her and fathered the Titans
Pontus
The deep sea, child and mate of Gaia
Oceanus
Titan god of the ocean.
Iapetos
A titan. Fathered Atlas, Menoitios, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. God of mortality.
Rhea
One of the 12 Titans, wife of Kronus, mother of the Olympians
Themis
Titan of justice
Mnemosyne
Titan goddess of memory and mother of the Muses.
Cronus
Titan ruler of the universe; father of Zeus
Hecatoncheires
100 handed creatures with 50 heads; children of Gaea and Uranus
Cyclopes
a race of one-eyed giants;
Muses
Nine sisters who give song and inspiration to humanity; daughters of Zeus and Mnemonsyne (Memory), give the Theogony to Hesiod
Titans
Children of Gaea and Uranus, defeated by the Olympians
Erinyes
the furies, female earth-powers who avenge wrongs, especially of innocent women
Aphrodite
Goddess of love and beauty, in Hesiod's version, born of Ouranos' castrated genitals
Eris
Goddess of discord
Moirai
The "Fates" who control the life threads of all mortals. Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the measurer), and Atropos (the severer).
Hesperides
Daughters of Night; guardians of golden apples beyond splendid Ocean
Clotho
One of the Fates; spins the thread of life
Lachesis
One of the Fates; as the "apportioner," she measures out the thread of destiny.
Atropos
One of The Fates - She cuts the thread of life and chose the manner of a persons death.
Lethe
The river of forgetfulness in the underworld
Ate
Child of eris, "folly"
Nereus
old god of the sea; father of the 50 Nereids
Nereids
Nymphs of the sea
Phorcys
an old god of the sea, father of Thoosa
Ceto
Child of Pontus and Ge; mother or grandmother of many mythical creatures.
Oceanids
The children of the Titan Oceanus and Tethys; there are the countless nymphs of the rivers and streams of the earth; their name means "the daughters of Ocean."
Helios
God of the sun
Selene
Goddess of the moon; daughter of Hyperion and Theia
Eos
Goddess of dawn; Aurora
Zephyr
The west wind, child of Eos
Boreas
God of the north wind, child of Eos