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

Paper, porcelain, and silk

• 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