Environmental Change Timeline

  • 8000 B.C. Hunter-Gatherer Era The Ice Age Ends
    Jan 1, 1000

    8000 B.C. Hunter-Gatherer Era The Ice Age Ends

    Ice sheets in Scandinavia came back and Scotland's glaciers had vanished. Land began to become dry so animals and humans began to invade the land.
  • 8000 B.C. Hunter-Gatherers Era Tools Were Created
    Jan 2, 1000

    8000 B.C. Hunter-Gatherers Era Tools Were Created

    Technology back then were known as tools. Hunter-Gatherers developed tools that they used for harvesting and hunting. Humans used resources from animals, stone, wood and bones for materials for their tools.
  • 6,000 B.C. Hunter-Gatherers Era Holocene Climate Optimum
    Jan 4, 1000

    6,000 B.C. Hunter-Gatherers Era Holocene Climate Optimum

    A period when the sea level rose a bit higher than today and the temperature was about 2 degrees celsius higher than today. There are many other names to call this period such as Climatic Optimum, Holocene Optimum, Holocene Thermal Maximum, etc.
  • 2100 B.C. Agricultural Revolution Bronze and Iron Age
    Jan 6, 1000

    2100 B.C. Agricultural Revolution Bronze and Iron Age

    Bronze and Iron were discovered and used to build tools that helped humans survive.
  • 3500 B.C. Agricultural Revolution Era Irrigation
    Feb 2, 1000

    3500 B.C. Agricultural Revolution Era Irrigation

    Ditches were created to put water into land that were dry. Irrigation began in many different countries.
  • 1812 Agricultural Revolution Plows Were Created

    1812 Agricultural Revolution Plows Were Created

    In the late 1812s, in Illinois, a crooked stick with an Iron point was used for farming.
  • 1880 Industrial Revolution Era The Edison Lamp

    1880 Industrial Revolution Era The Edison Lamp

    On January 7, 1880, Thomas Edison created his first electric lamp. He used platinum wire filaments so the metal won't melt.
  • 1889 Industrial Revolution Era The Eiffel Tower

    1889 Industrial Revolution Era The Eiffel Tower

    Gustave Eiffel and his company built his design of the Eiffel Tower in rememberance of the French Revolution.
  • 1903 Industrial Revolution Era Wright Brothers Flight

    1903 Industrial Revolution Era Wright Brothers Flight

    On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright took flight which lasted 12 seconds. But, Orville's flight was not the first flight. Wilbur Wright made the first flight which lasted 3 seconds.
  • 2001 21st Century 9/11 Attack

    2001 21st Century 9/11 Attack

    On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda terrorists gathered together to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by crashing their plane into the buildings.
  • 2005 21st Century Hurricane Katrina

    2005 21st Century Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was a category 3 storm which formed in the Bahamas then hit the New Orleans with its biggest impact. It was a natural disaster that made so much destruction that it took a lot of money to replace the damage
  • 2008 21st Century Barrack Obama's Election

    2008 21st Century Barrack Obama's Election

    Barrack Obama was the first African-American to ever become the U.S. Persident on November 8, 2008.
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