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Contemporary History - Second Millennium (1000 - 2000 AD )

  • 1300 - Late Middle Ages
  • 1300 - Kingdoms (13th, 14th Century)
  • 1375 - Renaissance, Baroque
  • Native American History
  • 1500 - Reformation - New World, Discovery, Exploration of the Globe
  • 1500 - The Age of Exploration
  • 1650 - Age of Enlightenment / Encyclopedia /
  • 1789 - Age of Revolution (17th, 18th Century)
  • 1848 - Age of Liberalism
  • Continental America - Industrial Revolution/ Musical Romanticism (18th century, 19th Century)
  • 1789 - Modern Age (20th Century) -
  • Olympics
  • The Mechanical Age
  • 1950 - Space Race
  • 1980 - The Digital Age
  • Environmental Science
  • Progress of Healthcare

Classic History - First Millennium - (0-1000)

Cultural Century - (1000-0)

  • 800 BC - Classical Age
  • Geographic Atlas

Ancient Civilizations - (2000-1000)

  • Ancient History
  • 1500 BC - Iron Age

Early Ages - Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age - 20 - 20,000

    • Human Migration (100,000 years)
      • 100,000 years ago – Africa, Klasies River Mouth, South Africa
      • 100,000 years ago.- People probably spread from Africa to southern Europe and central, southern, and south eastern Asia about (Human Migration)
      • 92,000 years ago – Asia, Qafzeh, Israel
      • Earliest migrations evidence indicates that the first peoples to migrate into the Americas, coming from northeastern Siberia into Alaska, were carrying stone tools and other equipment typical of the middle and end of the Paleolithic Period.
      • 67,00 years ago - Asia, Liujiang, China
    • Human Migration (Australia Continent)
      • 40,000 years ago – Australia, Papua New Guinea - Huon Peninsula (Human Migration)
    • Human Migration (New World West Continents)
      • 33,000 years ago – South America, Monte Verde, Chile (Human Migration)
      • 33,000 years ago – Europe, Mladec, Czechoslovakia
      • 32,000 years ago – South America, Boqueirao da Pedra Furada, Brazil (Human Migration)
      • 30,000 years ago – Asia, Tabon Cave, Philippines - (Human Migration)
      • 30,000 years ago – Asia, Siberia - Native Americans are physically most similar to Asian populations and appear to have descended from Asian peoples, people who migrated across the Bering land bridge during the Pleistocene Epoch, also known as the Ice Age, beginning perhaps some 30,000 years ago.
        • 25,000 BC - Approximately date of the earliest human settlement in the Americas
      • 22,000 years ago – South America, Pikimachay, Peru (Human Migration)
      • 15,000 years ago – Asia, Malta, Russia (Human Migration)
      • 14,000 years ago – South America, Taima-Taima - Venezulea (Human Migration)
        • 9,000 BC - Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone Age)
        • 6000 BC - Stone Age
        • 3300 BC - Bronze Age

Archaelogy - 20,000 - 100,000 - 5 million - Periods, Eras, Ages

  • Human Migration
  • Early Man - Humans, Hominids (5 million years ago) - Human Migration
    • Hominids - Lake Baringo, Kenya - 5,000,000 years ago
    • Hominids - Laetoli, Tanzania - 3,700,000 years ago
    • Hominids - Makapansgat, South Africa - 3,000,000 years ago
    • The first humans that could leave their environment of origin are called Australopithecines about 4 million years ago.
    • 2.5 million years - Paleolithic Period - Early man
    • Hominids - Lake Turkana, Kenya - 1,600,000 years ago
    • Early Man - Humans, Homo Erectus (1 million years ago)
    • Homo erectus - Ubeidya, Israel - 1,000,000 years ago
    • Homo erectus - Sangiran, Indonesia - 800,000 years ago
    • Homo erectus - Isernia, Italy - 700,00 years ago
    • Homo erectus - Tighenif, Algeria - 700,00 years ago
    • Homo erectus - Lanitna, China - 700,000 years ago
    • Homo erectus - Narmada, India - 500,000 years ago
    • Homo erectus - Zhoukodian, China - 450,00 years ago

Earth's Climate History

  • Creation of the Earth - 4.543 billion years old - Age of the Earth
    • Precambrian Era: Hadean, Achean, Proterozoic Eon – Cool
    • 4 billion years ago – Earth’s Formation
    • 3.46 billion years ago – First Ocean (Warm salt, Alkaline Soda seas)
    • 2 billion years ago – Cyno-bacteria (Oxygen photosynthesis) – all iron oxides are released into atmosphere (W. Australia)
    • 1000 million years ago – Ice Age
    • 800 million years ago – Ice Age
    • 600 million years ago – Ice Age
    • Paleozoic Era: Cambrian Period – Warm
    • 542 million years ago
    • Paleozoic Era: Ordovician Period – Warm -> Cool
    • 488 million years ago
    • Paleozoic Era: Silurian Period – warm
    • 443 million years ago
    • Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period – warm
    • 416 million years ago
    • Paleozoic Era: Carboniferous Period – cool
    • 359 million years ago
    • 300 million years ago – Ice Age
    • Paleozoic Era: Permian Period – warm
    • 299 million years ago
    • Mesozoic Era: Triassic Period – warm
    • 251 million years ago
    • Mesozoic Era: Jurassic Period – warm
    • 199 million years ago
    • Mesozoic Era: Cretaceous Period – warm
    • 145 million years ago
    • 100 million years ago –Ice Age
    • Cenozoic Era: Paleogene Period – warm -> cool
    • 65 million years ago
    • Cenozoic Era: Pleistocene Period – cool
    • 23 million years ago
  • 2,500,000 BC - Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age)
  • Prehistoric