sol intervention spring 2011 innovations and inventions
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SOL Intervention Spring 2011
Innovations and Inventions
Stone tools
• Paleolithic
Fire
Paleolithic
Pottery and weaving• Neolithic Period
Oral language
• Paleolithic Age
Domesticated animals
• Neolithic
Cave art
• Paleolithic Age
Domesticated plants/Agriculture
• Neolithic
Use of Metals – bronze and iron • River Valley civilizations
World’s first cities• River valley civilization
Monotheism
• Judaism
Hieroglyphics
• Egypt
Cuneiform
• Sumer/Mesopotamia
Alphabet
• Phoenician
Imperial bureaucracy and Road system
• Persian Empire
Math: Zero “0”, medical: setting bones, Astronomy: round earth
• India (Gupta)
• 3 – 3 = “0”
Civil service exam
• Classical China
First democracy
• Athens
Drama
• Greeks; Aeschylus and Sophocles
First historians
• Greeks; Herodotus and Thucydides
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
• Greek types of columns
• Greek Pythagoras
Philosophy
• Greeks; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
First Republic
• Rome
Pantheon, Colosseum, and Forum
• Roman structures
Roads, Aqueducts, and Arches
• Rome
ARCHES
“innocent until proven guilty”
• Roman law
Icons, Mosaics, & Hagia Sophia
• Byzantine Empire
Dome of the Rock
• Islam
Arabic Alphabet
• Islam
Algebra
• Islam
Manor with castle
• European Middle Age
Printing and paper money
• China
Compass
• China
Lateen sail
• Indian Ocean region
Western hemisphere: Calendars, mathematics, writing and other
record keeping
• Maya, Aztecs, and Inca
Moveable type printing press and the production of books
• European Renaissance
Gutenberg Bible