MGT211 Slides Themes 1-6

Age of AI

• 2.5 million BCE – Stone Age → Use of tools, fire, early hunter-gatherer societies
• 10,000 BCE – Neolithic Revolution → Agriculture, permanent settlements, domestication of animals
• 3,000 BCE – Early Civilizations → Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China → Invention of writing, early trade and barter systems

Age of AI

• 1,000 BCE – Iron Age → Metal tools, expansion of trade routes, coinage introduced
• 🔸 500 BCE–500 CE – Classical Era → Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese empires → Philosophies, taxation, early markets, legal systems
• 🔸 500–1500 CE – Medieval Era → Feudalism, guilds, caravan trade, Islamic Golden Age → First banks and merchant institutions