Foraging Societies

Settled Agriculture

Primary Urbanization

Classical Empires

• Early River Valley Empires
• Expansion and Contraction of Empires
• Cosmopolitan Empires

• Formation of Eurasian Ecumene
• Barbarian Invasions
• Islamic Expansion
• Mongol Dominance
• Second Islamic Age

Unification of the Hemispheres

• Voyages of Exploration
• Chinese Dominance
• The New Imperialism

Formation of World Culture

• Modern Western Civilization
• The New Imperialism
• The World Wars
• Decolonization
• After the Cold War

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5,000,000 -1,000,000 BC: Australopithecus 2,200,000 - 1,600,000 BC: Homo habilis 1,600,000 - 500,000 BC: Homo erectus Stone artifacts and weapons 500,000 - 80,000 BC: Homo sapiens 100,000 - 33,000 BC: Homo neanderthalensis Ice Ages Stone tools 125,000: Homo sapiens sapiens

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