Some dates for a perspective on world history

[shane...@ieee.org]

Some Dates (Approx.) for a perspective on history.
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>From Encyc. Brit. and www.wikipedia.org
and various recently written books.
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[Square brackets indicate that there's
no independent evidence for stories.]
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By Dan Shanefield
http://homepage.mac.com/shanefield
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Representational art (caves) 30,000 BC
Dogs tamed (for hunting) 13,000 BC
Pleistocene ice age ended 12,000 BC
Agriculture (neolithic era) 11,000 BC
Ceramics (Jomon culture) 10,000 BC
Cats tamed (against mice) 7,500 BC
Oxen tamed, and the plow 7,000 BC
Cities 4,000 BC
Copper 4,000 BC
Writing (Mesopotamia) 3,500 BC
Bronze 3,300 BC
Horses tamed 2,500 BC
Aryans invaded India 2,000 BC
Sanskrit 2,000 BC
Glass 2,000 BC
[Hindu "Veda"] written 1,800 BC
Hammurabi Laws (Babylon) 1,700 BC
Ugarit [Old Tes. stories] 1,300 BC
[Abraham] 1,300 BC
Shasu tribe [Yahweh] 1,300 BC
Phonetic writing (Phoenicia) 1,200 BC
Iron (Hittites) 1,200 BC
Zoroaster [New Tes.Stories] 1,000 BC
[Moses, Exodus, Joshua] 1,000 BC
King Josiah of Hebrews 650 BC
[Torah, Old Tes.] written 650 BC
Confucius 500 BC
Gautama Buddha 500 BC
Voting (among wealthy Greeks) 500 BC
[Ramayana] written 300 BC
Aristotle (logic) 300 BC
Carthage destroyed 146 BC
Caesar 50 BC
------[Jesus]--------------- Zero AD
Constantine (Rome Christianized)300AD
Byzantine Empire 400 AD
Mohammed 500 AD
"China"porcelain (Tang dynasty) 600 AD
Uighurs invaded Turkey 700 AD
Magyars invaded Hungary 900 AD
Chalemagne(SaxonsChristianized) 800AD
Alfred (VikingsChristianized) 900 AD
Beowulf 1000 AD
Renaissance(old knowledge&trade)1100
Genghis Khan Empire 1210
Guns 1300
Plague (Black Death) 1350
Chaucer 1350
Ottoman Empire 1500
Galileo (experiment) 1600
Newton (mathematical physics) 1700
European porcelain 1710
Watt (industrial revolution) 1750
U.S.A. (broad-based democracy) 1776
Pasteur (germs, vaccines) 1870
Edison (practical electricity) 1880
Einstein(sophisticated physics) 1905
Transistor(electronics revolut'n) 1948
USSR (20 million killed) 1922 to 1991
Communist China (30 mill.killed) 1949...
Double-Blind Audio Test 1974
"Meme" (Richard Dawkins) 1976
Hamah, Syria (Assad, 25K killed) 1982