| What |
when |
poplat'n |
|
BIG BANG |
13.7 BILLION YEARS |
|
|
Age of Earth |
4.5 Billion years |
|
|
first apes |
50
million years ago |
|
|
evidence of 1st human beings |
150,000 years ago |
|
|
1st Human
g
Single African Ancestor |
60,000 years ago |
1 |
|
Discovery of
agriculture |
6,000 B.C. |
|
|
Ancient Sumerians |
... to 5,000 B.C. |
5mill |
|
1st recorded history - cuneiform |
5,500 B.C. |
|
|
Ancient Egyptians |
from 5,000 B.C. |
|
|
Sphinx |
5,000 (or 25,000 B.C.?) |
|
|
Old Testament written |
1200-200 B.C. |
|
|
Buddha - Siddhartha |
624 B.C. born |
100mill |
|
Confucius |
551-479 B.C. |
|
|
Roman Republic to 44 BC
à empire |
|
|
|
Antiquity
á |
|
Jesus Christ & New Testament |
0 |
170mill |
|
Roman empire end |
476 |
|
|
Byzantine Empire to 1453
à
Ottoman |
|
|
|
Mohammed
|
c.570 - 632 |
|
|
|
|
Dark Ages |
476-1000 A.D. |
190mill |
|
ß
Middle Ages
à |
|
Enlightenment roots |
13th and 14th C humanists |
|
|
Renaissance |
14thC-17th C: 1300-1600 |
400mil |
|
Descartes |
17th C 1800s |
800mill |
|
Enlightenment - a set of attitudes |
1700-1804 (Napoleonic War) |
|
|
Modern Times
â |
| Fr Revolu & Amer
Independence |
1776 & 1788 |
|
|
Cotton Gin, Rail Roads |
1794, 1800 |
|
|
French revolution, American revolution |
|
|
|
Industrial Revolution |
19th C: 1800s |
900mill |
|
Mandatory public schooling |
1850s |
1 bill |
| |
|
|
|
Karl Marx |
1848 Communist Manifesto |
|
|
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
1844-1900 writing in the 70s |
|
|
Emile Durkheim |
1895 The Rules |
|
|
Max Weber |
1904 |
1.6 |
|
WWI |
1914-1918 |
|
|
WWII |
1939-1945 |
|
|
New Deal Progressives |
1932-1979 |
|
|
Great Depression & New Deal |
1929-1936 |
|
|
"America" - the "50s" |
1950s |
2.5 |
|
Pill, CounterCulture, "Liberat'n", Nixon, Oil
crisis |
1960-1977 |
3 bill |
|
Post Modern |
|
Neo Conservatives |
1980-2008 |
4.4 |
|
Co-opt Progressive/Counter culture |
1980-onward |
|
|
Redefine Super Powers |
1980-2000 |
6 bill |
|
Sanction borderless nation states NAFTA |
1994-onward |
|
|
PoPoMo |
|
Post 9/11 |
to
2012 |
7 bill |
|
|
