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Identifying Factoids

What is a Factoid? A factoid is an important person, place, event, or historical theme that made a significant mark in history by either influencing much, signaling new changes, or leaving behind a lasting legacy. Factoids, like vocabulary words, should be practiced and memorized. Notecards that can be used as practice flashcards will come in handy for studying and remembering these important moments in history.

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FACTOIDS DEFINITION / SIGNIFICANCE

Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Agricultural Revolution
Holocene Era
Catal Huyuk / Jericho
Fertile Crescent
Epic of Gilgamesh
Hammurabi’s Code
Ziggurat
Cuneiform
Pyramids (Giza)
Hieroglyphics
Papyrus
Book of the Dead
Harappa / Mohenjo-Daro

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Identifying Periodization

What is a Timeline? A timeline is the plotting of events throughout the span of time in chronological order of their occurrence. Historians often utilize timelines to explain trends, patterns, eras, or changes in human interaction over the centuries. It will become very important to use time as a tool to understanding change. Any important dates or periods of time that show significance or influence should be recorded.

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DATE(S) SUBJECT / SIGNIFICANCE

2 million BC – 8000 BC / Paleolithic Age
1.5 million BC – 1 million BC / 1st evidence of human use of fire
32,000 BC – 11,000 BC / Last Ice Age
30,000 BC / 1st evidence of human cave art
24,000 BC / 1st evidence of human woven cloth
8,000 BC – 3,500 BC / Neolithic Age
8,000 BC / Jericho urban site
7,000 BC – 5,000 BC / Catal Huyuk urban site
5,500 BC / 1st villages along Nile River
5,000 BC / 1st evidence of human use of seagoing boats
4,000 BC / 1st evidence of human use of plows
3,500 BC / 1st evidence of human beer drinking (Middle East)
3,500 BC – 1,000 BC / Bronze Age
3,100 BC / Narmer unites Upper & Lower Egypt
3,000 BC / 1st evidence of human building of canals (Mesopotamia)
2,630 BC / Djoser commissions 1st stepped pyramid (Saqqara, Egypt)
2,600 BC – 1,900 BC / Indus River Valley civilization flourishes
2,550 BC – 2,490 BC / Great Pyramids constructed for pharaohs (Giza, Egypt)
2,500 BC / Egyptians develop cursive script on papyrus
2,350 BC / Sargon conquers Mesopotamian city-states (Akkadian Empire)
2,112 BC – 2004 BC / 3rd Dynasty of Ur dominates Mesopotamia
2,000 BC / 1st evidence of full-time paid armies (Mesopotamia)
1,900 BC / Indus Valley urban sites mysteriously abandoned
1,900 BC – 1,600 BC / Old Babylonian Kingdom
1,792 BC – 1,750 BC / Rule of Hammurabi at Babylon