Human History Timeline BC 30,000 B.C. - Cro-Magnon man is flourishing, moving from the Near East into Europe, lives by hunting and gathering. Cro-Magnon’s painted caves with drawings of the animals they killed. 28,000 B. C. - Bering Strait is crossed by humans, connecting Asia to the Americas. 10,000 B.C. - Humans make it to the southern most point of South America 8,000 B.C. - An agriculture way of life is discovered in the Fertile Cresent/Middle Eastern area. Cows and sheep were domesticated and crops where manipulated and tended. (interesting fact: first domesticated dog ever was found in Idaho, USA 8400 BC) 7,000 B.C. - Clay pottery ware is created. Humans begin to use raw metals. 5,500 B.C. - First settled villages in the Mesopotamia region. 5,000 B.C. - The oceans and sea’s rise, England is now cut off from Europe by land. 4,500 B.C. - Humans learn how to use the plow. 4,250 B.C. - Development of copper and bronze metallurgy. 4,236 B.C. - The very first date on the Egyptian calendar. 4,000 B.C. - The wheel is invented and begins to be used. Rice farming in China is developed. 3,760 B.C. - Earliest date on the Jewish calendar and thought of as the day of Creation. 3,500 B.C. - First forms of written script. Earliest ziggurats are built. 3,372 B.C. - First date in the Mayan calendar. 3,100 B.C. - Egypt’s 1st Dynasty created by the joining of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt. 3,000 B.C. - Bricks are used. First city-states are created, palaces are starting to be build. Temples are usually build at    the center of the cities. There were large military campaigns by ethnic groups of people. 2,780 B.C. - Very first pyramids were built in Egypt. 2,750 B.C. - Rule of Gilgamesh. King of Uruk. 2,500 B.C. - First nation-states are created along with the very first written legal codes. 2,000 B.C. - Bronze Age begins (in Europe). 1925 B.C. - The Hittites conquer Babylon. 1,860 B.C. - The construction of Stonehenge in England starts. 1.400 B.C. - Golden Age begins in Egypt. 1,361 B.C. - A young boy named Tutankhamun succeeds khenaton, he restores the nation to worshiping the old Egyptian  gods. 1,250 B.C. - Ziggurat in Khuzistan, in present day Iran is built. Moses leads the Israelites on an exodus out of Egypt. More to come in the next few weeks and months.......
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