Spirit of the Ancients

Period: 2700 – 479 B.C.

Original Location: Italy, Sicily, North Africa, as far west as France

Current Location: Greece

Major Highlights: Concepts of democracy, the Senate, the Olympics

History Pottery

Period: 2000 - 1000 B.C.

Original Location: Central Europe, Turkey

Current Location: Scotland, Ireland

Major Highlights: Bagpipes, use of precious metals and gemstones

History Pottery

Period: 3150 – 30 B.C.

Original Location: Banks of the Nile

Current Location: Egypt

Major Highlights: Construction of pyramids, mummification

History Pottery

Period: 2600 – 1900 B.C.

Original Location: Around the basin of the Indus river

Current Location: Northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan, and Northwest India

Major Highlights: One of the most widespread civilizations in history

History Pottery

Period: 50,000 B.C. – Present Day

Original Location: Australia

Current Location: Australia

Major Highlights: The first known human civilization

History Pottery

Period: 1325 – 1521 A.D.

Original Location: South-central Mexico

Current Location: Mexico

Major Highlights: Highly advanced and complex society

History Pottery

Period: 2600 – 900 A.D.

Original Location: Around present-day Yucatan

Current Location: Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico; south through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras

Major Highlights: Complex understanding of astronomy

History Pottery

Period: 550 – 331 B.C.

Original Location: Egypt in the west to Turkey in the north, through Mesopotamia to the Indus river in the east

Current Location: Modern-day Iran

Major Highlights: Royal road

History Pottery

Period: 1600 – 1046 B.C.

Original Location: Yellow River and Yangtze region

Current Location: Country of China

Major Highlights: Invention of paper and silk

History Pottery

Period: 100,000 B.C. - Present Day

Original Location: North America, Asia

Current Location: North America

Major Highlights: Nomadic

History Pottery

Period: 1438 – 1532 A.D.

Original Location: Ancient Peru

Current Location: Peru, Ecuador, Chile

Major Highlights: Machu Picchu, engineering excellence

History Pottery

Period: 1550 - 1070 B.C.

Original Location: Sub-Sahara

Current Location: Sudan

Major Highlights: Thriving agrarian civilization

History Pottery

Period: 500 B.C. - 200 A.D.

Original Location: Western Africa

Current Location: Nigeria

Major Highlights: farming and iron tools

History Pottery

Period: 1500-300 B.C.

Original Location: Eastern Mediterranean

Current Location: North Africa

Major Highlights: trade, use of purple dye

History Pottery

Period: 900-1300 A.D.

Original Location: Korean Peninsula

Current Location: Korea

Major Highlights: trade, use of purple dye

History Pottery