4,600,000,000 Earth
is born!
245,000,000 - 65,000,000 - Dinosaurs
roam the Earth
110,000,000 - 'SuperCroc' thrives
in Niger
8,000,000 Global climate cools and dries
5,000,000 Australopithecus,
the first evolved people arrive
2,300,000 Genus Homo
arrives - larger brains and have language
1,400,000 First use of fire
by humans, evidence found in Kenya,
Africa (Homo
Erectus)
460,000 Hearths for fire used in China
400,000 Hearths for fire used in France
200,000 First Homo Sapiens in China, exist alongside Neanderthals
100,000 Use of fire becomes widespread throughout Africa
and Asia
60,000 Neanderthal hearths found in Israel
First people in Australia,
aborigines
35,000 People make sparks using flint
and iron pyrite
First people to the Americas
24,000 Neanderthals die out
12,000 Earliest human artifacts discovered in Alaska
10,000 First use of agriculture,
in China
9,000 First domesticated sheep
8,000 First domesticated goats
7000 Pottery
is invented
6,000 Mesopotamian
civilization (Iraq)
begins, as does the Sumerian
culture and the beginnings of cuneiform
- the first writing
Eskimos
come to North America via the Bering
Strait from Russia
to Alaska
First domesticated cattle
4,000 First domesticated horses
Invention of copper
metallurgy
3500 Sumerians develop cuneiform and Egyptians develop hieroglyphs
Wheeled carts invented
3300 First recorded history in Egypt
3000 First wheel used in Mesopotamia
Cities begin to develop
Invention of candles
Bronze used for weapons and armor
Semite Phoenicians
arrive in eastern Mediterranean
2700 Imhotep
- second King of 3rd dynasty in Egypt, constructs the world's first
stone building, for royal burial
2530 Great pyramids
of Egypt built
2500 - 1700 Indus
river civilization flourishes in India,
swift decline after 1800 B.C.
2323 Texts that contain instructions for speaking with the deities are
written inside pyramid walls
2205 - 1570 Xia
Dynasty in China
2100 Thebes
(Egypt) rises to power in south Egypt
2000 Canaan
(Palestine) conquered by Israelites
Alpaca
and Llama in Andes
regions become domesticated
Birth of Abraham - father of Judaism, Christianity,
Islam
2000 - 300 Growth of the Mayan
empire in Mexico
1991 - 1960 Art and literature flowers in Egypt
1950 First Egyptian female monarch: Sobekneferu
1696 - 1654 Hammurabi
rules in Babylon
(Mesopotamia)
1640 - 1400 Egypt ruled by the Semites
1570 - 1045 Shang
Dynasty in China
1500 the Aryans
from Central Asia settle upper Indus river plains
Iranian
plateau is settled by Aryan tribes
Hittites
develop Iron metallurgy
Phoenicians invent the alphabet
1400 Temple of Hapshepsut
constructed at Dayr, for the female pharaoh Hapshepsut
1353 Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep
IV renounces the worship of the old gods and introduces the concept
of monotheism
to Egypt, with the God Aton,
the disk of the sun being the central diety
1350 Assyrian culture
begins in northern Mesopotamia
1250 The biblical patriarch Aaron was born (founder of priesthood and
brother to Moses)
1200 Celts
begin in France and Germany
Invention of steel
1050 Birth of Absalom - favorite son of King David of Israel
1045 - 256 Zhou
dynasty in China
1000 Ionian
Greeks living in Persia
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