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Timeline. Introduction. The New World Before “Discovery,” and. First Contacts. The First Century of the New World’s. Invasion. Imperial Jockeying. The. English and Their Rivals in North America. Fathers. of a Different Kind of Empire.
To. Steal a Continent – An Empire Begins. To. Steal a Continent – Finishing the Job. The. Empire Goes Global. Sitting. on Top of the World.
The New Era Looked a Lot Like the Old Era. Attacking. Iraq. The Continuing War and the Body Count. Subsequent. Events Yugoslavia. East Timor. America’s Humanitarian Record.
The Kurdish Plight. Helping Kosovo. Helping East Timor. Helping. World Trade Center Postscript. Invading. and Occupying Iraq – A Postscript. Footnotes. Purpose and Disclaimer. Not many Americans will find this essay an enjoyable read, but that is not.
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This timeline presents events. Wikipedia links Event. Date. Global Population Statistics.
Behaviorally modern humans appear. Africa and colonize the rest of Earth. BCEc. 5,0. 00. First. British Isles arrive. BCE Humans reach the Americas.
BCE by boat and 9,0. BCE by land. Via Siberia- Alaska (1. BCE c. 9. 00. 0 BCE Large. South America. which was not covered in a continental ice sheet. Hunter- gatherer lifestyle.
Domestication Revolution begins in Fertile. Crescent and the Americas. Wheat, peas and olives domesticated in Fertile. Crescent. Squash and pumpkins first domesticated. Mesoamerica. c. 8.
BCEc. 5 million. Civilization begins forming in the Fertile. Crescent. Metallurgy first practiced near mountains of Eastern. Europe. c. 5. 00. BCE Stratification of early society begins, with elites - priest class. BCE Mass warfare begins in Sumer. Horse domesticated in steppe region.
Black Sea. Llama and Alpaca domesticated in South America. Invasions from steppe regions wash across Europe, Fertile Crescent. Middle East. c. 4. BCEc. 7 million. Migrating farmers from Fertile Crescent settle. Indus valley in present day Pakistan. Bronze. Fertile Crescent. The wheel is invented in Mesopotamia. By this time, corn, potatoes, manioc, beans and turkeys are domesticated.
Americas. c. 3. 50. BCE Bronze invented in the Fertile Crescent. BCE Sumer becomes the world’s. History begins. State bureaucracy and military. Plow agriculture begins in Fertile Crescent. The Pacific Northwest marine- based culture. Alaska to Northern California.
Camel first. domesticated near Fertile Crescent. Rice. China grows. c. 3. BCEc. 1. 5 million. Sumerian wheat yields decline by 4.
BCE. c. 2. 40. 0 BCE c. BCEc. 2. 7 million. Wheat yields in Sumeria decline by 6. BCE. Fields turn.
Sumer declines as. Mesopotamian civilization shifts north. BCE A four hundred year period of chaos and warfare begins to sweep Europe. Fertile Crescent, and Mediterranean region. The violent, male sky- gods.
Jehovah. The Aryan. India leads. to their caste system; the invaders are the favored class. c. BCE First iron age begins in Anatolia. Balkans, or Caucasus.
BCE Iron weapons rapidly replace bronze and become common throughout Europe. Fertile Crescent, Egypt, and elsewhere. The feminine- friendly. Minoan civilization on Crete collapses, as does Mycenaean civilization. BCE Agriculture collapses in central Mesopotamia due.
In 1. 99. 0, Iraq imported 7. The anti- feminine culture. Greece develops, known as Greece’s “dark age.” Women are. Although male gods dominated Greek. The. Greeks make the first heat- treated iron weapons. c. BCEc. 5. 0 million. A village that began with shepherds’ huts becomes the city called Rome.
BCE Republic of Rome begins, which takes power away from local kings. The Roman republic tries balancing the needs of peasants and aristocrats. BCE Etruscan civilization is at its peak influence, to eventually fall.
BCE Persians sack and nearly destroy Athens. Themistocles, and later Pericles.
Athens into a great city. At its height, of its 2.
The rest were women, slaves, and foreigners. BCE Roman law codified on twelve wooden tablets. The laws make men the. BCE Peak of the Greek classic period. Hippocrates. Socrates, Thucydides, and Aristophanes are alive. 4. BCE Rome begins rising as a power, eventually defeating the Etruscans of. Italy, and incorporate Etruria’s cultural and technical. By the time of Jesus, Etruscan culture was almost completely.
Roman culture. c. BCE Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquers Persia and tries uniting. East and West. The short- lived Macedonian Empire helps pave the way. Roman Empire. 3. BCE After subduing Italy, Rome engages in its first war. Carthage. Italy and Sicily are rapidly deforested to meet Rome’s.
BCE Rome defeats the forces of Carthaginian general Hannibal, ending the. Punic War. 2. 02 BCE Lion and leopard are extinct in Greece and coastal regions of Asia. Minor. Beaver is extinct in northern Greece due to trapping. c. BCE Rome invades and conquers Greece. Rome would incorporate much of Greek. BCE Greek resistance to Roman rule leads to the complete destruction of.
Corinth and the sale of its inhabitants into slavery. That same year. Rome does the same to Carthage. The Roman. Republic begins expanding across Europe, northern Africa and the Middle. East. 1. 46 BCE Rome begins handing out free food. Eventually, hundred. Rome’s citizens received free food for political reasons. Intensive agricultural exploitation of imperial lands are undertaken.
Places such as today’s Libya are forced to become. Rome, with the agricultural practices eventually turning Libya. BCE Julius Caesar’s armies defeat the inhabitants of southern Great Britain. BCE Cleopatra and Anthony’s forces defeated. Rome, and Egypt comes under Roman rule the next year. 3. BCE After a century of bitter civil war, the Roman Republic ends with the. Augustus. Caesar as the first Roman Emperor. Rome’s citizens cease having.
BCE Jesus is alive. Much of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and surrounding. Rome, eventually turning it into desert. In the Caribbean, agricultural Arawakan peoples begin migrating along. South America, eventually displacing/absorbing. They populate the Greater Antilles in the millions. Taino. 1 CE (all subsequent dates in this table are CE)World population: c.
An epidemic sweeps through the Roman Empire until 2. Rome’s citizens each day during the epidemic’s peak. Emperor Claudius in 2. Rome was forced by the population. The first mass conversions to Christianity. Polynesians. discover Hawaiic.
Roman Emperor Constantine convenes the Council of Nicea, his gambit. Visigoths invade Rome, for the first invasion of the city in eight. Hun invasion of Roman Empire stopped by a great battle in France. Hundreds of thousands die in battle. 4. Western Roman Empire falls. Germanic peoples invade the Roman Empire’s. Europe during the late 4.
Anglo- Saxon invasion. Great Britain. The Eastern Roman Empire lasts nearly continually. Constantinople (earlier named Byzantium. Istanbul) as its capital city. Europe, however, fell into. Dark Ages. 4. 76 Plague of Justinian kills up to. Europe. 5. 41- 5.
Moche culture in South America. El Niño cycles regularly affect South American civilization. That region’s. people become the world’s greatest agricultural experimenters. 5. Muhammad born, founder of Islam. c. Muhammad dies. 6. Mesoamerican empire centered in city of Teotihuacan. Toltecs. similar to the way empires rose and fell in the Fertile Crescent. c.
Islamic armies invade the Iberian Peninsula. Jews live under Moorish. Iberia, and it is their golden age in Europe, lasting for. Mayan civilization begins its collapse. It attained. Famine, war and disease accompanied. Mayan population to perhaps a million before 1.
CE, similar to Fertile Crescent dynamics. The forest recovers and covers. Mayan ruins. Charlemagne tries to create a new Western Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire lasted until. Napoleon. Vikings begin raiding the British Isles. France and become the Normans. Others go inland. Russians. c. 8. 00 Leif Ericson extends Viking colonization past Greenland settlements.
North America, probably in today’s Newfoundland. They may have driven. Irish monks from Iceland before them to North America. The Vikings’. Algonquin people. In Iceland, the Vikings are.
This is the beginning of the High Middle. Ages and height of the Medieval Warm Period. Umayyad dynasty ends in Moorish Iberia, and fractures into mutually.
Northern and central Europe, especially the Germanic lands, engage in great age of deforestation, making way. In 1. 90. 0, about 2. Ferdinand I, who proclaimed himself the Emperor of Spain, undertakes. Reconquest” of the Iberian peninsula. William the Conqueror leads the Norman invasion of Great Britain. Islamic preachers incite anti- Jew riot in Granada, which kills about 5,0. Jews. Christian conquest of Toledo, which.
European scholars to the ancient Greek writings via Islam. The introduction of the Greek writings leads to humanism, the Renaissance. Protestant Revolution. Christian Europe makes its first united act: the first Crusade to Palestine. The first wide- scaled. Jew slaughters in Europe take place as a warm- up for the first Crusade. France and Germany. Jews would no longer be safe in Europe, and. European way of life until World War II ended.
Mesoamerican Toltec city of Tula is destroyed, probably due to major. The Islamic culture attains the world’s highest standard of living.