Answer to Question #240596 in History for Another you

Question

1. Make an illustrated timeline that clearly shows the human social evolution.

Answer 1

Human social evolution.

32,400 years ago

Earliest cave paintings of Cro-magnons

(Chauvet caves at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc,

France)

30,000 years ago

latest record of Homo erectus (from

Asia)

28,000 years ago

Earliest representational art: sculptured

Venus of Willendorf' (Austria) (Venus

of Willendorf, also known as the Woman

of Willendorf, is an 11.1 cm (4 3/8

inches) high statuette of a female figure.

It was discovered in 1908 by

archaeologist Josef Szombathy at a

paleolithic site near Willendorf.

Willendorf is a village in Lower Austria

near the city of Krems.)

15,000 years ago

Mongoloids colonize North America

from Asia over Bering land bridge, or

from Europe by boat 17,000 years.

(Mongoloid is a grouping of various

people indigenous to East Asia, Central

Asia, Southeast Asia, North Asia,

Polynesia and the Americas. It is one of

the traditional three races first introduced

in the 1780s by members of the

Göttingen School of History, the other

two groups being Caucasoid and

Negroid.)

14,000 years ago

Domestication of dogs (China)

12,000 years ago

Extinction of woolly mammoths

(America and Europe), due to climate

and human activities.

11,000

Domestication of sheep (Iraq)

10,000

Domestication of goats (Iran), and pigs

(Thailand)

10,000

Continental ice-sheets withdraw from

Europe and North America

9,500

Cultivation of wheat and barley

(Mesopotamia = modern Iraq)

9,500

First town: Jericho, Palestine, walled

city of population 25,000

8,000

First hand pottery, and spinning and

weaving (Mesopotamia)

7,550

Flooding of Black Sea from

Mediterranean (the biblical flood of

Noah's Ark)

7,500

Cultivation of millet and rice (China)

World population of humans passes5

million

7,000

Domestication of cattle (Iran)

6,350

Domestication of horses (Ukraine)

5,500

First use of wheel (Mesopotamia),

transport and pottery.

5,000

First written words: hieroglyphics

(Egypt), cuneiform (Mesopotamia)

(Cuneiform is an ancient writing system

that was first used in around 3400 BC.

Distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks

on clay tablets, cuneiform script is the

oldest form of writing in the world, first

appearing even earlier than Egyptian

hieroglyphics.)

4,800

First writing on papyrus (paper)

4,700

First monuments: pyramids (Egypt)

4,000

Invention of icecream

2,700

Start of iron age (Europe) (The Iron Age

was a period in human history that

followed the Bronze and Stone Ages.

During the Iron Age, people across much

of Europe, Asia and parts of Africa began

making tools and weapons from iron and

steel. The Iron Age started between 1200

B.C. and 600 B.C., depending on the

region.)