Stearns Chapter 1 DATES Flashcards

4787334077	Paleolithic, Old Stone Age	most of the 2 million years during which our species has existed, ending about 14,000 years ago	0
4787338943	Homo erectus	species emerged about 500,000- 750,000 years ago	1
4787342710	Homo sapiens sapiens	emerged about 120,000 years ago	2
4787344838	speech	developed 100,000 years ago	3
4787354599	people first left africa	750,000 years ago	4
4787357918	inhabition of britain	250,000 years ago	5
4787359510	australia	inhabited 60,000 years ago	6
4787364629	mesolithic, middle stone age	12,000 to 8,000 BCE	7
4787367485	end of last great ice age	14,000 years ago	8
4787399188	animals being raised	9,000 BCE	9
4787404599	development of agriculture in the Middle East	10,000 BCE	10
4787408777	Agriculture reaches West Africa	2,000 BCE	11
4787411217	Agriculture invented in the Americas	5000 BCE	12
4787428073	Northern Europeans and southern Africans convert to agriculture	2000 years ago	13
4787439352	first potter's wheel	6000 BCE	14
4787451383	discovery of metal tools	4000 BCE	15
4787466511	use of stone tools, done	3000 BCE	16
4787484835	iron is introduced	1500 BCE	17
4787491765	slash and burn agriculture ends	150 years ago	18
4787501179	Catal Huyuk founded	7000 BCE	19
4787512547	origins of civilization	3500 BCE	20
4787517382	3rd civilization begins by the indus river	2500 BCE	21
4787532146	cuneiform alphabet	developed in 3500 BCE	22
4787616867	reign of Hammurabi, king of babylon, over mesopotamia	1800-1750 BCE	23
4787652961	indo-europeans began pressing in from the north	beginning about 2100 BCE	24
4787695371	Egyptian Civilization	formed by 3000 BCE	25
4787742692	egyptian pharaohs build pyramids for themselves	2700 BCE onward	26
4787746337	egyptian civilization remains intact until	1000 BCE	27
4787764070	indus river civilization	emerges by 2500 BCE	28
4787783822	chinese have advanced technology and intellectual life by	2000 BCE	29
4787790731	shang ruled over the hwang he valley	by 1500 BCE	30
4787850194	most river valley civilizations declined after	1200 BCE	31
4787860714	the Zhou took over	about 1000 BCE	32
4787888028	Phoenicians develop the 22 letter alphabet	around 1300 BCE	33
4787897400	jews	settled near the mediterranean around 1200 BCE	34
4787902721	romans seize the jewish state	63 BCE	35