My world history timeline by Conor Loveless

Homo Sapiens Emerge

cloveless01 — 2023-10-02 22:39:14 UTC

Skulls were found in The Great Rift Valley of East Africa and were determined to be 195,000 years old.

Africa's Climate.

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:09:22 UTC

About 100,000 years ago much of Africa had a very unstable climate. Some places became warmer and wetter, while others became hot and dry.

Migration into Asia

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:16:16 UTC

Paleolithic people search for homes outside of Africa. They first migrated into Southwest Asia around 70,000 years ago. The region was warm and tropical and provided lush vegetation and abundant wildlife.

Migration into Australia

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:20:35 UTC

From Asia early homo sapiens migrated into Australia around 50,000.

Migration into Europe

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:22:38 UTC

By about 40,000 years ago homo sapiens migrated into Europe.

Migration into Eastern Asia

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:24:59 UTC

Around 30,000 years ago, homo sapiens reached Siberia on the edge of Eastern Asia.

Migration into Northern America

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:27:43 UTC

People crossed the Beringian land bridge between 15,000-20,000 years ago during the height of the ice age.

Migration into Southern America

cloveless01 — 2023-10-04 21:28:11 UTC

Scientists believe that during a period of glacial melting around 12,000 years ago, but some evidence has been found that humans might have come to South America by boat from Australia closer to 35,000 years ago.

Catalhoyuk

cloveless01 — 2023-12-11 23:31:11 UTC

Konya, Türkiye

Started 6700bc-ended 5650bc

Banpo

cloveless01 — 2023-12-11 23:32:15 UTC

Shaanxi, China

4500bc-3750bc

Oaxaca

cloveless01 — 2023-12-11 23:35:51 UTC

Oaxaca, Mexico

1800bc-200ad

Faiyum

cloveless01 — 2023-12-11 23:37:35 UTC

Egypt

Started around 5200bc

The first people to settle south of the Sahara

cloveless01 — 2023-12-14 23:21:26 UTC

The first people to settle south of the Sahara settled around 4000bce

When the Hittites of present day turkiye mastered ironworking.

cloveless01 — 2023-12-14 23:24:32 UTC

They mastered ironworking as long ago as 1500bc.

When the Nok people first made iron tools in West Africa.

cloveless01 — 2023-12-14 23:26:15 UTC

The Nok started making iron tools around the 500s bc.

Yangshao

cloveless01 — 2024-02-09 23:28:38 UTC

Yangshao was a dynasty from 5000-3000 BCE. Yangshao had pottery painted with many pictures of stuff suh as animals and plants.

Xia

cloveless01 — 2024-02-09 23:31:37 UTC

Xia dynasty was a dynasty from 2000-1600 BCE. It was most likely a mythical legend as we have no proof that it existed other than oral traditions.

Longshan

cloveless01 — 2024-02-09 23:31:47 UTC

Longshan Dynasty was a dynasty from 3000- 1900 BCE. Longshan had very advanced pottery techniques such as pottery wheels and kiln ovens.

Shang

cloveless01 — 2024-02-09 23:38:40 UTC

The Shang Dynasty was a dynasty that existed from 1600-1100 BCE. It was the first documented dynasty of China. They used pictographic writings systems, which made it possible for current Chinese speakers to understand their language. Their language was saved on some ancient artifacts to learn about how they lived.