Ancient civilization

Australopithecus

200,000 BCE

Lived 4.5 million years ago in central Africa in modern day Ethiopia.
Lived in the forest largely in trees.
They were about one meter tall.
Start of our evolutionary chain.
Evolutionary Event.

Homo habilis

200,000 BCE

Lived 2.5 million years ago.
First tool making.
All hand held.
Tear-drop shape axe.
First learning information and passing it on.
Evolutionary Event.

Homo Sapiens

200,000 BCE

Lived 200,000 years ago.
2 types homo Sapien Sapiens
Homo eructus
Evolutionary Event.

Fire

200,000 BCE

Found about 1 million years ago.
It allowed us to cook meat.
Making it more beneficial to our bodies.
It kept us warm.
They can travel father without meat going bad.
Allows us to travel into colder weather.
Tool/Invention/Discoveries.

Land Bridge

200,000 BCE

It made it easy for people to move from one area to another.
It was a stretch of land between Asia and the Americas.
Migration Event.
(Wikipedia)

Mount toba

200,000 BCE

This is a theory that an explosion from the mount toba volcano left an ash cloud sending the area into a volcanic winter cause people to move.
It killed off plants and animals forcing people to move.
Migration Event

Needles

25,000 BCE

Was made 25,000 years ago.
It was used to make clothes.
It created a way for people to keep warm.
Tool/Invention/Discoveries.

Ice age

11,000 BCE

This event occurred about 2.5 million years ago and only ended about 11,000 years ago
This forced humans to move north

Sickle

2000 BCE

It was a harvesting tool.
It allowed them to more easily harvest crops.
Neolithic Events.

Agricultural revolution

2000 BCE

Humans started to settle down crops in addition to hunting and gathering.
They were more stationary making it harder to hunt and gather, also they grew what was close to them which was generally more work than hunting and gathering