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World Event Timeline

World Event Timeline. From the First Homo sapiens to YOU. Turn to your partner and discuss:. What is a primary source? What is a secondary source?. Primary vs. Secondary. What is a primary source? -an original source What is a secondary source?

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World Event Timeline

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  1. World Event Timeline From the First Homo sapiens to YOU

  2. Turn to your partner and discuss: What is a primary source? What is a secondary source?

  3. Primary vs. Secondary • What is a primary source? -an original source What is a secondary source? -works that explain, interpret or analyze the “original” document, event, or work

  4. How is time measured? • YA= Years Ago • B.C.E. or B.C.= Before Common Era or Before Christ • C.E. or A.D.= Common Era or “In the year of the Lord.”

  5. Turn to your partner and discuss: When was the universe created? When did man first appear? You are going to learn how you are a part of the continuum of time. You will need to create a timeline with the following events. Put a star next the events that interest you. You will do something special with these for your timeline. Also, jot down any questions, etc. you might have about the event.

  6. 20 billion YA • Universe was created

  7. 4.5 billion YA • Solar system formed

  8. 225 million YA • First Dinosaurs

  9. 200,000 YA • First homo sapiens in Africa

  10. 15,000 YA • descendants of Native Americans crossed Bering Strait and came to present day North America.

  11. 3,500 B.C.E • First written language appeared in Sumer; cuneiform alphabet (mostly business transactions) • Written language marked the beginning of “History”

  12. 3,000 B.C. • China- oldest civilization to date began

  13. 1740 B.C. • Code of Hammurabi-first legal code

  14. 1350 B.C. • Moses at Mount Sinai- received 10 commandments • Judaism- first monotheistic religion began

  15. 1200 B.C.E • Phoenicians- first maritime trading power

  16. 750 B.C.E. • Rome: lasted 1000 years (first Olympic games in 776 B.C.E.)

  17. 500 B.C.E • Buddhism began

  18. 450 B.C.E. • The Golden Age of Greece

  19. 206 B.C.E • China- Silk Road began under the Han Dynasty

  20. 50 B.C.E. • Julius Cesar ruled Rome

  21. 0 • Jesus Christ: born Dec 25 4 B.C.E. and died 30-34 CE • Christianity

  22. 476 C.E. The fall of the Western Roman Empire: began the Dark Ages in Europe

  23. 632 C.E. • Islam: Muhammad born 570 C.E. and died 632 C.E.

  24. 1021 C.E. • Tale of Genji: called world’s first novel

  25. 1096 C.E. • The Crusades: fight for the Holy Land, lasted until 1270

  26. 1200 • Aztec and Inca Civilization in South America was at its height

  27. 1215 C.E. • Magna Carta: King John of England signed; first time a ruler was forced to accept limits of power

  28. 1347 C.E. • Black Death: bubonic plaque killed 1/3 of Europe

  29. 1439 C.E. • Gutenberg invented the printing press; literacy rate increased rapidly

  30. 1492 C.E. • Columbus sailed to New World; beginning Age of Exploration -Balboa, Cartier, Coronado, Cortes, Drake, Vasco de Gama, Ponce de Leon, Magellan, Pizarro, de Soto, Hudson

  31. 1500 C.E. • Renaissance firmly established in Europe -Raphael, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Da Vinci

  32. 1502 C.E. • First African slaves brought to the New World

  33. 1517 C.E. • Reformation: Martin Luther began to protest the “wrongs” of the Catholic church

  34. 1600 C.E. • Colonial powers take over the New World: England, France, Spain and Netherlands claim land present day U.S.A.

  35. 1607 C.E. • Jamestown: first permanent English colony in North America

  36. 1680 C.E. • Age of Enlightenment: time period where philosophers used reason and logic to explain government - Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire

  37. 1775 C.E. • April 19; Battle of Lexington and Concord; began American Revolution (lasted until 1783)

  38. 1776 C.E. • Declaration of Independence: declared independence from Great Britain- began “America,” adopted U.S flag

  39. 1787 C.E. • Constitution of U.S.A.- ratified, formed basis of new national government

  40. 1803 C.E. • Louisiana Purchase: Thomas Jefferson purchased western land from France to expand the territory of the U.S.A.

  41. 1830 C.E. • Indian Removal Act: Andrew Jackson approved of the removal of Native Americans from the East Coast to land west of the Mississippi

  42. 1860 C.E. • Civil War in U.S.A.- lasted until 1865 between North and South

  43. 1865 C.E. • Period of Reconstruction in U.S.A. began: repair and rebuild damage of Civil War

  44. 1914 C.E. • World War I began, lasted until 1918

  45. 1920 C.E. • Women in U.S.A. got the right to vote in government elections

  46. 1930 C.E. • Great Depression in U.S.A.- began after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, lasted until start of WWII

  47. 1939 C.E. • World War II: U.S.A. came into the war in 1941 with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7

  48. 1954 C.E. • Brown vs. Board of Education: put an end to segration in public schools

  49. 1960 • Civil Rights movement: Martin Luther King, Vietnam War, John F. Kennedy- assassinated (1963), Nixon: Watergate

  50. 1970 C.E. • Ford administration, Carter administration, Roe vs. Wade: Supreme Court granted women right to choose to carry a child to term

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