Dates before the present ch 1

250,000-200,000

Earliest Homo sapiens in Africa

100,000-60,000

Beginnings of migration out of Africa

70,000

Human entry into Eastern Asia

60,000-40,000

Human entry into Australia (first use of boats)

45,000

Human entry into Europe

30,000

Extinction of large mammals in Australia

30,000-15,000

Human entry into the Americas

30,000-17,000

Cave art in europe

25,000

Extinction of Neanderthals

16,000-10,000

End of last ice age (global warming)

12,000-10,000

Earliest agricultural revolutions

11,000

Extinction of large mammals in North America

After 8,000

First chiefdoms in Mesopotamia

6,000-5,000

Beginning of domestication of corn in southern Mexico

3,500-1,000

Austronesian migration to Pacific islands and Madagascar

1,000-800

Human entry into New Zealand (last major region to receive human settlers)

3500-3000

Beginnings of Mesopotamia, Egyptian, and Norte Chico civilizations

3400-3200

Nubian kingdom of Ta-Seti

3200-2350

Period of independent Sumerian city-states

2663-2195

Old kingdom Egypt (the high point of paraoh’s power and pyramid building)

2200-2000

Beginnings of Chinese, Indus Valley, and central Asian(Oxus) civilization

2070-1600

Xia dynasty in china (traditionally seen as the first dynasty in China)

After 2000

Epic of gilgamesh compiled

1900-1500

Babylonian empire

1792-1750

Reign of Hammurabi

1700

Abandonment of Indus Valley cities

1550-1064

New kingdom Egypt

1200

Beginnings of Olmec civilization

760-660

Kush conquest Egypt

586

Babylonian conquest of Judah

By 500

Egypt and Mesopotamia incorporated into Persian empire