Earliest Man

Ice Ages with warm times between them

450,000 350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 10,000 today
1st Ice Age 1st Warm Time 2nd Ice Age 2nd Warm Time 3rd Ice Age 3rd Warm Time 4th Ice Age 4th Warm time Warm now
Erectus Oldest Man Neanderthal Present Man

From Stone to Iron

50,000 30,000 10,000 2,000 1,000 0 1,000 today
End 3rd Ice Age End of 3rd Warm End 4th Ice Age 4th Warm Time goes on now
Old Stone Age New Stone Bronze Iron Age

The 5000 years B.C

5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 B.C. 0 1000 A.D.
Egyptians Babyonians Assyrians Jews Greeks Romans Middle Ages

The Romans

700 600 500 400 300 200 100 B.C. 0
Build Rome City-State Kings Republic Carthage Empire

The Roman Empire and the Church

100 B.C. 0 100 A.D. 200 300 400 500
Caesar> Jesus Nero Constantine Barbarians Fall of Rome

The Middle Ages

500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500
Fall of Rome
Clovis
Jostinian
Constantinople
Benedict
Augustine
Mohammed
Islam Charlemagne Northmen Hastings Canossa
Clermont
Francis
Dominic
Kublai Khan Tamerlane Constaninople Falls to Turks

The Age of Renaissance

1250 1300 1350 1400 1450 1500 1550 1600 1650 1700
Science Bacon 1250 Copernicus
Galalieo
Newton
Letters Dante 1265-1321 Shakespeare 1564-1616
Discovery Marco Polo da Gama
Columbus
Magellan
Cortes
Pizarro
Cartier
Drake
Art Michael Angelo
da Vinci
Raphael
Titian
Religion Wycliffe -1384 Huss -1415 The Reformation Erasmus -1536
Luther 1483-15??
Ignatius -1556
Calvin -1564
Political Armada 1588 Thirty Years War 1618-1648

The Great Kings and the Growth of Colonies

1500 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800
Kings :
Akbar
Louis XIV 1643-1715
Peter 1689-1725
Frederick 1740-86
Central America South America Canada
East India
Mayflower

The Present Age

1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900 1925 1950
American Rev
Lincoln
US Civil War
French Rev Napoleon English? Bismarck
Italy
Crimean War
Franco-Prussian
WWI League Nations
New Japan Russian Rev Soviet Union

To the End of the 20th Century

1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
WW2 Cold War
Korea
Soviet Fall Terror
UN