TIMELINE
| 1.7 million years ago | Emergence and spread of homo erectus |
| 500,000 years ago | Use of fire |
| 200,000–120,000 years ago | Homo sapiens sapiens |
| 18,000–12,000 years ago | Passage of people to Americas |
| 9000 B.C.E. | Neolithic revolution (New Stone Age) |
| 8000 | Development of agriculture |
| 5000 | Agriculture in Central America |
| 4000 | Bronze tools, other inventions (Bronze Age) |
| 3500–2600 | Urban centers emerge in Mesopotamia (Sumer), development of cuneiform writing |
| 3200–2780 | Unification of Egypt under one pharaoh |
| 3000–1300 | Indus River cities |
| 2600–2420 | Akkadian invasions and empire |
| 2100–1788 | Expansion of Egypt to Sudan, Palestine |
| 2050–1750 | Kingdom of Babylon |
| ca. 2000 | Hwang Ho civilization; myths of Hsia dynasty; golden-age writing of Gilgamesh, world's first known heroic epic |
| 1700 | Hammurabic Code |
| 1500 | New Kingdom in Egypt; increase in use of slaves; use of iron in Asian civilizations; Shang dynasty in China |
| 1400–1150 | Phoenician cities and colonies in eastern Mediterranean; formation of Jewish religion |
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Publication information:
Book title: Experiencing World History.
Contributors: Paul V. Adams - Author, Erick D. Langer - Author, Lily Hwa - Author, Peter N. Stearns - Author, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks - Author.
Publisher: New York University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 26.
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