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AP Human Geo Events

By 18garza4744
  • Mesopotamia
    8000 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    Nomadic people first begin to settle in Mesopotamia. These people eventually became the first civilizations in Mesopotamia.
  • Medieval
    525 BCE

    Medieval

    Dionysius Exiguus publishes the Dionysius Exiguus' Easter table. This initiated the Anno Domini era, used for the Gregorian and Julian calendars.
  • Greek and Roman Era
    330 BCE

    Greek and Roman Era

    Naming of the city by the Emperor Constantine as the capital of the Roman Empire (as Nova Roma, later Constantinople).
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

    The steam engine is invented. Thomas Newcomen invents the first steam engine. It is not very useful yet, but the idea of using steam to make machines go will be important to the Industrial Revolution.
  • Morse Code

    Morse Code

    Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code. Great Western--first ocean-going steamship.
  • Ford

    Ford

    Henry Ford mass-produces the Model T.
  • Agglomeration

    Agglomeration

    With 35 million people, the metropolitan area of Tokyo was by far the most populous
    urban agglomeration in the world.