Part 1

By angiehoughton05
  • 250,000 BCE

    2.5 million B.C.E, emergence of Homo Sapiens in eastern Africa

  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 100 BCE

    Early Human Time

  • 150,000 BCE

    1 million B.C.E emergence of Homo Erectus

  • 120,000 BCE

    120,000 emergence of Homo Sapiens Sapiens

  • 60,000 BCE

    600,000 wide spread of human species across Asia, Europe, Africa; control fire

  • 25,000 BCE

    25,000 passage of first people to Americas

  • 18,000 BCE

    18,000-12,000 control Russian mammoth bone settlements

  • 12,000 BCE

    12,000 Domestication of dogs

  • 10,500 BCE

    10,500-8,000 Natufian settlements

  • 8500 BCE

    8,500-6,500 Domestication of sheep, pigs, goats, and cattle

  • 7000 BCE

    7,000 first town in Jericho

  • 6250 BCE

    6,250-5,400 Catal Huyuk at its peak

  • 5600 BCE

    5,600 Beans domesticated in western hemisphere

  • 5000 BCE

    5,000 domestication of maize

  • 5000 BCE

    5,000 Plant domestication becoming widespread

  • 4000 BCE

    4000 Maize domestication in mexico

  • 4000 BCE

    4,000-3,000 Age of innovation in the Middle east: introduction of writing, metalworking, wheel, plow

  • 3500 BCE

    3,500-1,800 Sumerian civilization

  • 3500 BCE

    3,500 Llama domestication

  • 3100 BCE

    3,100-1,087 Founding and flowering of Egyptian civilization

  • 3000 BCE

    3,000-1,500 Evidence of cotton cultivation, metallurgy, ceramic

  • 2500 BCE

    2500-1500 Indus Valley civilization in South Asia

  • 2000 BCE

    2,000 pottery in use in Mesoamerica

  • 2000 BCE

    5,000-2,000 Yangshao culture in North China

  • 2000 BCE

    2,000 Kotosh culture in Peru

  • 2000 BCE

    2,000-500 Early cultures in southwestern United states

  • 1850 BCE

    1850 Origin of Shang kingdom in China

  • 1800 BCE

    1,800 Formation of Babylonian empire in Middle east

  • 1800 BCE

    1,800-1,200 Ceremonial centers in the highlands of southern Mexico

  • 1766 BCE

    1766 Emergence of Shang kingdom in China

  • 1700 BCE

    1,700-1,300 Rise of village culture in Mesoamerica

  • 1600 BCE

    1,600 Beginning of Indo-European invasions of India and parts of the Mediterranean and Middle east

  • 1500 BCE

    1,500 Beginning of Polynesian migration in Pacific

  • 1500 BCE

    1,500-800 Olmec civilization flourishes

  • 1500 BCE

    1,500-800 Olmec civilization in Central America

  • 1250 BCE

    1250 Moses and Jewish exodus from Egypt

  • 1200 BCE

    1200-700 Vedas composed

  • 1122 BCE

    1,122-770 Zhou Kingdom in China

  • 900 BCE

    900 Maya civilization beginnings; classical period in Mesoamerica

  • 850 BCE

    850-250 early Horizon; Chavin culture flourishes

  • 800 BCE

    800 Beginnngs of Bantu migration in Africa

  • 800 BCE

    800 Initial Greek city states

  • 760 BCE

    760-600 Meroe (Kush) rules Egypt

  • 400 BCE

    400 Potatoes domestication

  • 300 BCE

    300-900 Height of Maya civilization

  • 200 BCE

    200-500 Nazca Culture

  • 100 BCE

    100 Germans in southern Germany, on Roman borders