141 Survey 1: Handprints and Handwri ng (35,000 BCE - 0 )
200,000 BCE ca. 1750 BCE 221 BCE
Homo sapiens emerged (modern man) Code of Hammurabi stele carved Construc on of Great Wall of China began 40-35,000 BCE ca. 1750 BCE ca. 200 BCE First rock art in Asia and Europe Zodiac signs invented in Babylonia Chiaku-wen wri ng replaced by 10000-7000 BCE 1500 BCE chen-shu wri ng (China) Animal domes ca on Indus Valley civilisa on disappears ca. 200 BCE and crop growing began 1500 BCE 10000 BCE Relief prin ng used on tex les (China) Earliest remaining book of the dead Indigenous Peoples 196 BCE 1500 BCE already inhabit North America Rose a stone carved 4,000 BCE Nomads bring Hindu religion to India ca. 190 BCE Rock art in Africa, Australia and Americas 1500 BCE Parchment began to replace papyrus ca. 4000 - 3500 BCE Iron perfected by Hi tes in Anatolia (now Turkey) ca. 100 BCE Sumerian and Harappan proto-wri ng ca. 1500 BCE Chinese began making paper from ca. 4000 - 3500 BCE bamboo pulp Phoenicians created Sumerians se le in Mesopotamia the first true alphabet 500-100 BCE
ca. 4000 - 3500 BCE 1325 BCE Yoga Sutras of Patañjali composed Harrapan civiliza on in Indus Valley Death of King Tutankhamun 51 BCE
3500 BCE 1200 BCE Cleopatra became Queen of Egypt
Po er’s wheel invented Olmec culture began in Mesoamerica. (forerunner of the Maya and Aztecs) 3500 BCE 1447 BCE Relief stamp seals used in Mesopotamia and Indus Valley Exodus of Jews from Egypt began
3500 BCE ca. 1000 BCE Greeks adopted and adapted Cylinder seals used in Mesopotamia Phoenician alphabet 3500 BCE ca. 850 BCE
Po er’s wheel (Mesopotamia) Aramaic alphabet developed from Phoenician alphabet 3100 BCE 776 BCE Early Sumerian pictographic tablets First Olympic Games held in Greece ca. 3300 – 3000 BCE ca. 700 BCE Blau monuments combined words and pictures for first me Modern Hinduism emerged with Upanishads religious texts ca. 3000 BCE 563 BCE Egyp an hieroglyphs emerge Gautama Buddha born ca. 3000 BCE ca. 500 BCE Incan civilsa on begins Greek alphabet was adopted and adapted first by the Etruscans and then 3000 BCE the Romans to form La n alphabet Long-distance trade began between Indus Valley and Mesopotamia ca. 500 BCE
2600 – 1800 BCE Confucius edited sacred Chinese books and founded Confucianism Stonehenge built (Britain) 422 BCE ca. 2575 – 2465 BCE Parthenon built (Greece) Great pyramids and sphinx built ca. 400 BCE ca. 2070 BCE A standardised Greek alphabet is Chinese civiliza on begins implemented with Xia Dynasty 300-280 BCE ca. 1800 BCE Money first coined in Rome Origins of Judaism (Middle East)
The Metropolitan Museum’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History and The Bri sh Museum’s History of the World in 100 Objects are excellent supplements to this meline: www.metmuseum.org/toah/ www.bri shmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world.aspx
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0-1492 800s-900s 1200s-1600s
North American Indigenous Peoples High middle ages brought consolida on Mali Empire in Africa flourished lived without outside interference of na onal iden es 1200s First century 800s-1200s Gothic (blackle er) scripts became The Roman Empire stretched European Chris an crusades popular across Europe from the Bri sh Isles to Egypt to Holy Land 1270 First/second centuries 800s Paper first made in Italy (Fabriano) Chris anity separated from Judaism Charlemagne’s Carolingian Script became popular across Europe Late 1200s 0-400 800 European crusades came to an end Codex (books) and rotuli (scrolls) co-existed Book of Kells (Scotland or Ireland) 1271-1292
37 800s Marco Polo visited China (Or did he?) 1282 Christmas celebrated for the first me First paper money used (China) Early watermarks first used in Europe 79 868 Vesuvius volcano destroyed Pompeii 1284 Diamond Sutra printed by Wang Jie 178 (China) Eyeglasses produced in Florence
Chris an missionaries arrived in Britain 900s 1300s
200s Paper first made in Egypt Mapping, naviga onal and ship design improved and explora on expanded 1000s-1300s Silk Route brought trade early 1300s from China to Rome Late Middle Ages: rise of ci es and 300s non-La n literature Block-prin ng used on tex les in Europe
Vergilius Augusteus: first bound 1000 ca. 1350-1750 manuscript with paragraphing and Norseman Leif Ericson landed in punctua on Bubonic plague wiped out L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland 1/3 of European popula on 301 1045 ca. 1400 Armenia adopted Chris anity Pi Sheng invented moveable type (China) (The first state religion) Playing cards block-printed in Europe 1086 ca. 300s 1368–1644 First census: Domesday Book (Britain) Greeks began wri ng with China grew under Ming Dynasty rounded uncial le erforms 1100 ca. 1430 387-410 Paper first made in Morocco Joan of Arc burnt at the stake (France) Rome sacked by Gauls and Visigoths 1150 1446 300s-700s Paper first made in Spain Korean Hangul alphabet introduced Barbarian invasions in Europe and 1202 1450 emergence of monas c culture Fibonacci’s book Liber Abaci introduced 550s Gutenberg perfected Hindu-Arabic numerals to Europe typographic prin ng Silkworms smuggled 1211 from China to Europe Ghengis Khan and Mongols Early 600s entered China
Koran recorded the teachings of 1215 Mohammed (founding prophet of Islam) Magna Carta guaranteed fundamental 600s civil rights to English people
Windmills invented in the Middle East 1250-1350s
700s Mongols invaded Russia, Hungary, Poland, Germany End of papyrus produc on 1260-94 715 Kublai Khan conquered China Lindisfarne Gospels (Britain) 768
Charlemagne crowned King of Franks 700-900
Gunpowder & fireworks invented (China)
790-850
Vikings invaded Bri sh Isles and France
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