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• 5 Ancient Civilizations

  • Mesopotamia
  • Indus Valley Region (now Pakistan & India)
  • Huang He (Yellow River) valley of China
  • Island of Crete in the Aegean Sea
  • Central America
• The Wheel


  Invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) where the sumerian people inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood. It was only in 2000 BC that the discs began to be hollowed out to make a lighter wheel.
• Benz Patent Motor Car

  On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his "vehicle powered by a gas engine". The patent-number 37435 – may be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. In July 1886 the newspaper reported on the first public outing of the three wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car.
• Tea or Cha


  An aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of camellia sinensis.
• The Codex


  The first roman book, a bound volume of sheets of writing material, the original form of the modern book
• Code of Hammurabi


  The concept of reciprocal Justine seemingly applies to social equal (an eye for an eye)
• Reasons Egyptians Wear Make Up

  • They thought it helped protect from the gods Ra and Horus
  • For their alleged healing powers
  • They believe it could cure eye diseases and keep them from falling victim to the evil eye
• Cosmetic Make Up Of Egyptians

  They combined soot (a deep black powdery of carbon) with a lead mineral called galena to create a black ointment known as kohl.
• Water Clock


  This device utilizes gravity than affects the flow of water from one vessel to the other. The water clock were used by priest to determine time riots and sacrifices were performed at the correct hour.
• Great Wall of China


  The largest and most extensive infrastructure built in China, almost 4,000 miles long
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon


  Was built by Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II who ruled between 605 and 562 BC for his median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.
• Greek Medicine


  Focused upon diet, exercise, and climate.
• Hippocrates


  • Most famous author
  • Father of modern medicine
  • Contributed a number of books
  • Concerned with the describe of and natural history of disease.
• Aryabhata I (ad 476)


  One of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of ancient India.
• Ancient Indian Mathematicians (800 BC-1200 AD) were basically number of theorists and their mathematics an appendage to astronomy.
• Difference Between Hindu And Greek Mathematics

  Hindu mathematics was more arithmetic oriented. On the other hand, Greek mathematics was geometric centred.
• The Growth Of Hindu Mathematics Falls Into Two Periods

  • The Sulvasutra Period starting roughly from 800 BC to 200 AD
  • Astronomical and Mathematical period starting from 409 AD to 1200 AD
• The Telegraph


  Developed in the 1839s and 1840s by Samuel Morse that revolutionized communication, transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations
• Guglielmo Marconi


  Inventor of the successful wireless telegraph
• Johannes Gutenberg


  Designed and built the first known mechanized printing press in Europe
• Physicist Henri Bacquerel


  Discovered radioactive and radioactive elements
• Robert Fulton


  Built the first successful steamboat; the Clermont
• Thomas Savery


  Considered the inventor of the first commercially used steam powered device, a steam pump that used steam pressure operating directly on the water.
• Alexander Graham Bell


  Invented the first successful telephone.
• Galileo


  Improved the telescope, producing telescopes of increased power.
• The Wright Brothers


  Inaugurated the aerial age with the world's first successful flights of a powered heavier-than-air flying machine.
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (W.C Röntgen)


  Reported the discovery of X-rays in December 1895
• A Ziggurat


  The sumerian pyramid, a form of monumental architecture originating in ancient mesopotamia.
• Hunter-Gatherer Culture


  A type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and foraging for wild vegetation and other nutrients like hone, for food.