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The Earliest Humans, 5 million11,000 BCE

5 million3 million BCE	Australopithecus inhabits Africa.
2 million BCE	Homo habilis develops tools.
1 million BCE	Homo erectus uses fire.
250,0009000 BCE	Early Homo sapiens use stone tools and live by hunting and gathering in the Paleolithic era.
100,000 BCE	Homo sapiens migrate out of Africa.
45,000 BCE	The settlement of Australia begins. Stone-tipped spears are developed.
40,000 BCE	Homo sapiens make cave paintings.
30,00020,000 BCE	Humans migrate from Asia to North America, most likely using the land bridge across the Bering Strait.
25,000 BCE	The use of ceramics begins to develop.
20,000 BCE	Bows and arrows are first used.
11,000 BCE	The land bridge across the Bering Strait is covered by water during the receding ice age.

The Origins of Human History, 10,0001230 BCE

ca. 10,0005000 BCE	The Neolithic Revolution marks the transition from nomadic, hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural societies.
ca. 92008900 BCE	The Clovis culture develops in North America.
ca. 8500 BCE	Arrowhead technologies start to appear.
ca. 8000 BCE	Pumpkins and squash are cultivated in Central America. The wooly mammoth is extinct by this time. Pigs and cattle are domesticated.
ca. 75004500 BCE	The Jomon culture forms in Japan.
ca. 7000 BCE	The earliest known woven cloth is made. Jericho is settled. It is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
ca. 6500 BCE	Rice cultivation begins in China.
ca. 6300 BCE	Dugouts, the first boats, are made.
ca. 6000 BCE	Pottery is developed in South America.
ca. 5200 BCE	The first winemaking begins in Mesopotamia.
ca. 5000 BCE	The Yangshao culture arises in China along the Yellow River.
ca. 4400 BCE	Woven cloth is made in Egypt.
ca. 4236 BCE	The Egyptians create a 365-day calendar.
ca. 4000 BCE	Horses are domesticated in Central Asia. The water buffalo is domesticated in China. Potatoes are cultivated in South America.
ca. 38003200 BCE	The Uruk period in Mesopotamia will bring the rise of city-states.
3760 BCE	The Hebrew calendar begins.
ca. 3500	The worlds first civilization emerges in Mesopotamia. The plow is invented. The first known writing and the wheel are invented in Mesopotamia. Boats with sails are developed.
ca. 35003000 BCE	Cities emerge in Mesopotamia.
ca. 3300 BCE	Cuneiform writing is developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia.
ca. 3200 BCE	Hieroglyphic writing is developed in Egypt. It uses pictures to represent both sounds and words.
ca. 3100 BCE	Civilization begins in Egypt.
ca. 3000 BCE	The Bronze Age begins in Greece and China. The llama is domesticated in South America.
ca. 2950 BCE	A lunar calendar is created in China.
ca. 2900 BCE	Cotton is cultivated in India.
ca. 28002350 BCE	Sumer enters its early dynastic period as rule by dominant families emerges.
ca. 2800 BCE	Soap is made in Mesopotamia.
ca. 2700 BCE	Silkworms are cultivated in China.
ca. 26952160 BCE	Egypt enters the Middle Kingdom period.
ca. 2600 BCE	Egyptians begin to practice mummification, most often to preserve the bodies of deceased pharaohs.
ca. 2589 BCE	King Cheops begins his reign in Egypt. He will build the Great Pyramid of Giza.
ca. 25582532 BCE	The Great Sphinx is constructed in Egypt near the pyramids of Giza.
ca. 2500 BCE	The Harappan civilization arises along the Indus River in India. Construction of Stonghenge begins in England, possibly as a burial site.
ca. 2371 BCE	Sargon, an Akkadian, leads the conquest of Sumer. Rather than imposing Akkadian culture on the conquered, Sargon adopts Sumerian culture.
ca. 2356 BCE	The Yao dynasty begins in China.
ca. 2100 BCE	Abraham leads a migration out of Ur, in Mesopotamia, to Canaan, modern-day Israel and Palestine.
ca. 2000 BCE	The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh is written. The Harappan civilization declines.
ca. 1792 BCE	The Amorite king Hammurabi begins ruling Babylon. He will develop a set of laws famous for its provisions of an-eye-for-an-eye justice.
ca. 1750 BCE	The Shang dynasty begins in China.
ca. 1730 BCE	The Hyksos, a Semitic people, conquer Egypt.
ca. 17001600 BCE	Joseph leads the Hebrew migration into Egypt.
ca. 1600 BCE	Egyptians begin to produce the Book of theDead, a hieroglyphic guide for the dead to find their way through the afterlife. The Mycenaean civilization arises in Greece.
ca. 1570 BCE	The Egyptians drive out the Hyksos, inaugurating the New Kingdom period.
ca. 1500 BCE	The Vedic period begins in the Indus Valley with the emergence of the Aryan people.
ca. 1500500 BCE	The Rigveda, a collection of philosophical and religious writings in early Sanskrit, is composed in India.
ca. 1483 BCE	Pharaoh Thutmore III begins his rule in Egypt and initiates expansion into Syria and Palestine.
ca. 1360 BCE	The Hittite people expand into Syria and Mesopotamia.
ca. 1334 BCE	Tutankhamen ascends to the throne of Egypt. His mummified corpse will be discovered in 1922.
ca. 1279 BCE	The reign of Ramses II begins in Egypt. He will launch numerous building projects.
ca. 1274 BCE	The Battle of Qadesh, between the Egyptians and the Hittites in modern-day Syria, ends without a victor.
ca. 1270 BCE	Moses

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