This time-line is closely based on a hardcopy timeline originally prepared by Darrell Huwe.
Pre-Historical
fire last glacial maximum (-11000) domestication of plants and animals (-8000) causes deviation of global climate: progressively warmer than astronomical fluctuations cause oil Black Sea Flood (-5600)Earliest History
Egyptian Empire (from -3100 to -600) Moses (-1250; no mention in surviving contemporary documents)-600
Buddha-500
-400
coal Aristotle-300
-200
Roman Empire...-100
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Jesus of Nazareth100
Ptolemy200
New Testament manuscripts, with no punctuation, spaces between words, or capitalization, are copied by amateur scribes300
Byzantine Empire...400
New Testament manuscripts copied by professional scribes... ...Roman Empire "Dark Ages"... growth of Copan valley population500
600
Mohammed Arab Empire...700
Franks field heavy cavalry with saddles and stirrups (732) Copan valley population plateaus around 27,000 people800
900
occupation of Easter Island Copan valley population about half of peak France cross plow Vikings settle Greenland under Erik the Red1000
horse collar (China??) ...Arab Empire (1055)1100
collapse of Mimbres (1130) collapse of Chaco Canyon, North Black Mesa, and Virgin Anasazi1200
Genghis Kahn Mongol Empire... Robert Grosseteste (Bishop of London 1235...) Copan valley population zero Roger Bacon Northern Italian-based international banks Invention of eyeglasses (Italy, 1284) and mechanical clocks Kublai Kahn (a grandson of Genghis Kahn) ...Mongol Empire1300
collapse of Mesa Verde and the Kayenta Anasazi Marco Polo Yuan Dynasty... invention of cannon (1324-25) and sternpost rudder crop failure Hundred Years' War... Black Plague English wool exports shift from fleeces to woven cloth1400
collapse of Mogollon collapse of Norse colonies in Greenland Nicolas of Cusa ...Hundred Years' War ...Byzantine Empire (1453) moveable type printing press ends hand copying of bible manuscripts Columbus Easter Island deforested1500
...Middle Ages Luther Copernicus Tyco Brahe Usury re-defined to forbid only "high" interest rates Gilbert (Earth as magnet); Stevin (hydrostatic paradox)1600
Francis Bacon Galileo Descartes Kepler Locke Newton1700
spinning jenny Easter Island population c. 30% of peak cotton gin Smith1800
Malthus Dalton Lyell Ricardo steam locomotive telegraph entropy oil well Darwin Irish Potato Famine (1845-50)1900
Einstein Heisenberg nuclear fission2000
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Dick Piccard revised this file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/timeline.html) on January 2, 2006.
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