Timeline of everything

  • Period: 11,000 BCE to 9000 BCE

    First farmers

  • 10,000 BCE

    A farmer’s best friend

  • 9000 BCE

    Metalworking begins

  • Period: 9000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Prehistoric communities

  • 8500 BCE

    Cows and pigs

  • 8000 BCE

    Walled settlements

  • 7000 BCE

    Sheep and goats

  • 5500 BCE

    Irrigation

  • 5000 BCE

    Rice bowl

  • 4500 BCE

    Oldest gold treasure

  • 4500 BCE

    The copper-stone age

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Early cities

  • 3500 BCE

    Wheels for transportation

  • 3500 BCE

    The first wheel

  • 3300 BCE

    World’s first writing

  • 3200 BCE

    Cuneiform

  • 3100 BCE

    The bronze age

  • Period: 2900 BCE to 2300 BCE

    Trading hubs

  • 2600 BCE

    Sewer systems

  • 2600 BCE

    Indus script

  • 2500 BCE

    Chinese writing

  • 2200 BCE

    Iron

  • 2000 BCE

    Spoked wheel

  • Period: 1850 BCE to 1650 BCE

    First alphabet

  • 1200 BCE

    Chinese statues

  • 1200 BCE

    Phoenician alphabet

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1101 BCE

    The Iron Age

  • 800 BCE

    City-states

  • 800 BCE

    Greek alphabet

  • 800 BCE

    Brahmi script

  • Period: 800 BCE to 300

    Iron-age Europe

  • 700 BCE

    Peru and Bolivia

  • 600 BCE

    African iron

  • 600 BCE

    Indian steel

  • 500 BCE

    Cast iron

  • 400 BCE

    Gears

  • 300 BCE

    Archimedes’ screw

  • 200 BCE

    Iron plow

  • 100 BCE

    Water wheel

  • 1 CE

    Record-breaking Rome

  • 500

    Astrolabe

  • Period: 500 to 700

    Byzantine bazaars

  • 1000

    Fieldwork

  • 1100

    Flywheel

  • 1190

    Replacement walls

  • 1300

    European blast furnaces

  • 1300

    Mechanical clock

  • Period: 1400 to 1500

    Crop swap

  • 1493

    Propeller

  • Period: to

    Factory towns

  • The Industrial Revolution

  • Cotton gin

  • Street lights

  • Reaping rewards

  • Electric motor

  • Steel plow

  • Underground railway

  • Selective breeding

  • Combine harvester

  • Skyscrapers

  • Pneumatic tires

  • Tractor

  • Tanks

  • Green revolution

  • Gm crops

  • City slickers