HWH 9-16-14 Innovation Chart

CIVILIZATION	INNOVATIONS	NOTABLE RULERS
SUMER	Social hierarchy	Sargon
EGYPT	Bureaucracy, pyramids, peace treaty, mummification, social hierarchy, hieroglyphics, papyrus, astronomy, medicine, mathematics	Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Ramses II
BABYLON	Legal code, advances in astronomy & mathematics	Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar
HITTITES	Iron Working	None
ASSYRIANS	Regulation of royal household, beginning of libraries	Assurbanipal
ISRAEL	Monotheistic religion, Judaism	Saul, David, Solomon
PERSIANS	Provinces with governors, building of roads, common set of weights and measurements; use of coins, barter economy to a money economy, New Religion of Zoroaster	Cyrus the Great Darius I
PHOENICIANS	Tyrian Purple – the color of royalty, alphabet, sea traders	None