A trip Through History

1.5 - 1 million years ago

• Replacement of Homo habilis by H. erectus, probable use of speech
• Migration of Homo Erectus to Europe and Asia from Africa

Homo Erectus

300,000 years ago

• Control of fire provided a new tool
• Helped with cooking
• Led to a change in human diet.

Fire

32,000 years ago

earliest cave paintings of Cro-magnons

Rock Paintings

31,000 years ago

• Last Glacial Maximum (peak at 26,500 years ago).

Glacial peaks

14,000-10,000 years ago

• Domestication of Dogs
• Domestication of sheep
• Domestication of Pigs
• Domestication of cattle
• Withdrawal of Ice sheets from Europe and North America

Domestication

Global temperatures 11,000 years ago

abrupt period of global warming

• taken as the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch.
• a sudden rise of sea level by 7.5 m within about 160 years.

Global Warming

9,500 years ago

• Cultivation of Wheat and Barley in Mesopotamia
• first town: Jericho, walled city of population 2500
• the planting stick is used, but it is replaced by a primitive plow in subsequent centuries

Beginning of agriculture

8,000 years ago

• Sudden decrease of global temperatures, probably caused by the final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet,
• Drier conditions in East Africa and Mesopotamia.

More Change

5,000-3500 years ago

• First use of wheel in Mesopotamia (transportation)
• First use of Number decimals in Egypt
• First written words: Hieroglyphs in Egypt and cuneiform in Mesopotamia
• First writing on paper
• Start of the bronze age
• First alphabet: North Semitic, Palestine and Syria

Writing and Numbers

3,200 - 2800 years ago

• Sea-based trade begins in the mediterranean connecting cultures (Phoeniceans)
• Maize cultivation starts in America (staple food source)
• The rise of Judaism and king Solomon
• Olympic games in Greece

Trade and Religion

2,800 - 2000 years ago

• Beginning of the iron age
• Peak of Greek development
• Rise of the Roman empire and beggining of christianity

https://www.history.com/topics/pre-history/iron-age

Great powers rise

700-360 years ago

• Black Death bacillus carried by rats, half population dies across much of Europe, 1347-51
• Birth of the renaissance (Italy): individualism, imagination and innovation
• Movable printing type helps the expansion of ideologies (Europe)
• Catholic Reformation
• Exploration of the Americas
• Copernicus theory

Disease and thinkers

320 - 230 years ago

• Colonization of the Americas
• Invention of the steam engine and powered machinery (start of new and expansive technological develompents that fuel the industrial revolution)
• Independence of USA
• Spread of Republicanism around the world (French Revolution)

Beggining of a new age

215-100 years ago

• Factory production starts in the UK
• First railway (Uk)
• Theory of Evolution
• Invention of the telephone (USA)
• First world war
• Communist Revolutions

70 years ago

Second world war and use of the atomic bomb