This Fleeting World Timeline - Vivienne Mockenhaupt
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Updated: 13 Sep 2023
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Green - Human evolution, government, and power structures
Blue - Technology, innovation, and adaptation
Orange - Trade, economy, and connection
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Created byVivienne Mockenhaupt
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100,000 BCE - Humans begin the migration out of Africa and into Eurasia, marking the start of the spread of humanity and the creation of “world zones”.50,000 BCE - There is an uptick in the speed of innovation and new technologies.13,000 BCE - Humans arrive in the Americas, quickly moving down towards South America.9,000 BCE - In the Sahara region of Africa, the first cattle domestication takes place.4,000 BCE - The secondary products revolution begins.3,000 BCE - The first cities and states appear in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and begin to pop up elsewhere soon after.2,000 BCE - Trade networks are created throughout Eurasia that lead to broader scopes of connection and cultural exchange, although they remain limited by staying within the continent.600 BCE - The Achaemenid empire is the first major empire in human history.1500 CE - Every major world region is linked to the rest through trade routes and migration between the different world zones.1929 CE - The global economy collapses, and most famously the stock market on October 29, 1929, leading to what is known as the Great Depression.September 11, 2001 CE - Terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. change the world and cause a spike in Islamophobia.Periods
300,000-200,000 BCE - The first modern humans appear in Africa. This is the beginning of human history as we know it.50,000-40,000 BCE - Humans start to settle in Australia.13,000-11,000 BCE - The first settled agrarian communities begin to form, a clear shift from the nomadic groups of the past that ushered in this new era of human history.1776-1805 CE - The American, French, and Haitian revolutions occur in quick succession.The Industrial Revolution is a period of human invention and new technologies that changes the way we relate to the world around us.1931-1945 CE - World War II and the associated events begin with Japan's 1931 invasion of Manchuria and end with the first ever military uses of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.1980s-1990s CE - The movement of globalization attempts to integrate the world economically, leading to growth in industrial economies.
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