A walk through time...

Human History

  • Anthropological origins of Homo sapiens species (Modern day humans, where do we come from?)

    • The Tree of Biology

      • Animalia

        • Vertebrates

          • Mammals

            • Primates

              • Hominids

                • Humans (The first modern humans appeared in Africa 300,000 years ago.)

                • Dryopithecus

                  • 13 million to 7 million years ago
                  • Europe and Asia

                • Ramapithecus

                  • 16.6 million to 5.3 million years ago
                  • East Africa, India, Pakistan, the Near East, and China

                • Australopithecus

                  • 4.2 million to 1.9 million years ago
                  • East Africa and South Africa

                • Homo habilis

                  • 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago
                  • Sub-Saharan Africa

                • Homo erectus

                  • 1.9 million to 117,000 years ago
                  • East Africa, South Africa, Western Asia, East Asia, and Western Europe

                • Homo sapiens neanderthalensis

                  • 400,000 to 40,000 years ago
                  • Europe and Asia

                • Homo sapiens (Modern Humans)

                  • 300,000 years ago to present
                  • Earth

  • Modern Humans

    • 300,000 years ago

  • Ancient China

    • 6000 BCE to 220 CE

  • Ancient Sumerian Civilization

    • 4500 BCE to 1750 BCE

  • Ancient Mesopotamian Civilization

    • 3500 BCE to 539 BCE

  • Indus River Valley Civilization

    • 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE

  • Ancient Egyptian Civilization

    • 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

  • The Kingdom of Kush

    • 2500 BCE to 350 CE

  • Mayan Empire

    • 2000 BCE to 1500 AD

      • “Golden Age” 250 CE to 900 CE

  • Ancient Greece

    • 1200 BCE to 146 BCE

  • Carthage

    • 814 BCE to 146 BCE

  • Ancient Rome

    • 753 BCE to 476 CE

  • Ghana Empire

    • 300 to 1240 CE

  • Medieval Europe

    • 450* (approx.) to 1500 CE

  • Great Zimbabwe

    • 1100 to 1450 CE

  • Feudal Japan

    • 1185 to 1868 CE

  • Mali Empire

    • 1235 to 1645 CE

  • Italian Renaissance

    • 1300 to 1600 CE

  • Aztec Empire

    • 1325 to 1521 CE

  • The Kingdom of Kongo

    • 1390 to 1914 CE

  • Portuguese Colonial Empire

    • 1415 to 1999

  • Inca Empire

    • 1438 to 1533 CE

  • Songhai Empire

    • 1460 to 1591 CE

  • Discovery of the Americas by European Nations

    • 1492 CE, Christopher Columbus

  • Spanish Colonial Empire

    • 1492 to 1976 CE

  • European Colonization of the Americas

    • 1500 to late 20th Century CE

  • North Atlantic Slave Trade

    • 1500 to 1800 CE

  • European Slavery in the Americas

    • 1500 to 1900 CE

  • British Colonial Empire

    • 1607 to 1997 CE

  • First French Colonial Empire

    • 1534 to 1814 CE

  • First Dutch Colonial Empire

    • 1602 to 1815 CE

  • The French and Indian War

    • 1754 to 1763 CE

  • American Independence

    • Declaration of Independence, United States of America’s Independence Day

      • 1776 CE

    • The declaration of Mexican independence from external European ruling authority

      • 1821 CE

  • The Revolutionary War

    • 1775 to 1783 CE

  • The War of 1812

    • 1812 to 1815 CE

  • Second Dutch Colonial Empire

    • 1815 to 1975 CE

  • Second French Colonial Empire

    • 1830 to 1980 CE

  • The Civil War

    • 1860 to 1865 CE

  • The Spanish-American War

    • 1898 CE

  • The Phillipine-American War

    • 1899 to 1902 CE

  • World War I

    • 1914 to 1918 CE

  • World War II

    • 1939 to 1945 CE

  • Israel-Palestine Conflict

    • 1948 CE to Present

  • The Korean War

    • 1950 to 1953 CE

  • The Information Age

    • 1950 to Present

  • The Vietnam War

    • 1955 to 1975 CE

  • The War on Drugs

    • 1971 CE

  • The Internet

    • 1983 CE

  • The Gulf War

    • 1990 to 1991 CE

  • The Iraq War

    • 2003 to 2011 CE

  • Gaza War

    • 2023 CE to Present




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