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Timeline homes / Modern Kids

  • 11,000 BCE

    Cave

    Cave
    Primitive people did not know how to build houses, hiding from the wind and cold in the caves. They were the first "discoverers" of natural caves.
  • 10,000 BCE

    Wigwam

    Wigwam
    In the steppe places, semi-desert, tundra there were dwellings made by the type of huts. They are made from branches of shrubs, trees and covered with grass, animal skins and other materials. They were built in North America, Central Asia, Siberia.
  • 5000 BCE

    Adobe

    Adobe
    It is one of the oldest building materials. It was used by the ancient Egyptians.
  • 400 BCE

    Saklya

    Saklya
    In the mountainous and rocky areas, stone was used for construction. Walls were built from it. The roof was made of wood or stone too.
  • 200 BCE

    Insula

    Insula
    In the architecture of ancient Rome - a multi-storey residential building with rooms and apartments
  • 400

    igloo

    igloo
    Winter home of the Eskimos.
  • 900

    Mansions

    Mansions
    In the old days in Russia was called more or less extensive wooden residential structure, with all its parts.
  • 1100

    Cottage

    Cottage
    In the forest and taiga areas, where the tree was in abundance, the houses were built of wood. Here you can mention the chopped Russian hut, Ukrainian hut. In Europe, wood was also used for construction.
  • 1300

    Marquee

    Marquee
    Temporary lightweight construction of fabrics, leather or branches, a kind of tent that is large. Usually constructed in the form of a cone. Since ancient times, used by the eastern nomadic peoples.
  • 1400

    Ward

    Ward
    Russian medieval, mostly residential stone or brick buildings.
  • 1500

    Manor house

    Manor house
    In Russian architecture there is a separate settlement, a complex of residential, commercial, park and other buildings, as well as, as a rule, a manor park that make up a single whole.
  • Terraced house

    Terraced house
    In order to reduce the cost and speed up the construction of steel, massively erect residential semi-detached multisectional houses of a terraced type (several semi-detached houses in a row with common walls, each building mirroring the appearance of a neighboring one). The streets of English cities flooded the unsightly rows of brick houses on two floors - downstairs a kitchen with a coal stove, exits to the street and a mini-garden, upstairs - the only living room for all.
  • Apartment house

    Apartment house
    Apartment building built for the rental of apartments.
  • Suburban house

    Suburban house
    Automotive development in developed countries in the 1920s and 1930s led to the growth of suburbs, especially in the United States. After the Second World War, new technologies of mass construction of the same type, relatively inexpensive residential buildings appeared.
  • Skyscraper

    Skyscraper
    Very tall building with bearing steel or reinforced concrete frame, designed for the life and work of people.