This is chronology of events in the history of mankind. So when someone tells you the Greeks and Romans form the cradle of human civilization, you can tell them Egyptians and Indians were building cities thousands of years before the so-called Western civilization even set a stone.
4-5 MILLION B.C .- Humans (Hominids - in primitive ape-like stages) first appear in AFRICA (EAST & SOUTH)
2.5 - 2 MILLION B.C. - Humans (Homo Habilis - humans with brain and dextrous fingers and Homo Erectus) appear in Africa
900,000 B.C. - Humans (Homo Sapiens) move towards WEST ASIA
(MESOPOTAMIA - PERSIA -INDUS)
850,000 B.C. - Humans move towards LOWER EUROPE (ANATOLIA/ BALKANS).
(ANATOLIA is mordern day Turkey)
450,000 B.C. - Humans move towards CHINA (NORTH)
200,000 B.C. - Humans seen in MIDDLE EUROPE
120,000 B.C. - Humans start occupying JAVA
100,000 B.C. - EARLIEST KNOWN FORM OF HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS (AFRICA)
50,000 B.C. - Humans move towards AUSTRALIA
35,000 B.C. - Humans move towards UPPER EUROPE
30,000 B.C. - Humans set up in NORTH AMERICA
10,000 B.C - Humans migrate towards SOUTH AMERICA (ICE AGE ENDS)
10000-4000 B.C. - Humans start AGRICULTURAL/ HUNTING/ METAL WORKS
6000 B.C. COPPER FOUND IN WEST ASIA
5000 B.C. COPPER FOUND IN BALKANS
4000-2000 B.C. BRONZE/ COPPER IS WIDELY USED IN THE OLD WORLD (ASIA)
2000-1000 B.C. IRON IS FOUND IN WEST ASIA/ INDIA/ CHINA
3500 B.C.-1100 B.C. (EGYPTIAN EMPIRE AT ITS PEAK) - WORLD's FIRST CITIES COMES UP ON THE BANKS OF RIVERS NILE, TIGRIS/ EUPHRATES- URBAN (CITIES UR- URUK -BABYLON)
3200 B.C. WORLD's FIRST URBAN CIVILIZATION COMES UP AROUND NILES IN EYGPT - URBAN (CITY- MEMPHIS, THEBES)
3000 B.C. - 1500 B.C. - WORLD's NEXT BIGEST URBAN CIVILIZATION COMES AROUND - INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION- URBAN (CITIES - HARAPPA MOHENJO-DARO) |
