Prehistory from 2,000,000 BCE to 1000 BCE

By tlstanley
  • 50,000 BCE

    Neanderthal burials prepare dead for afterlife.

    (Social/Cultural - purple)
  • 35,000 BCE

    Cro-Magons invent bow & arrow.

    (Political - green)
  • 3500 BCE

    Sumerians build 1st cities.

    (Political - green)
  • 3400 BCE

    Corn & beans cultivated in the Americas.

    (Scientific-blue)
  • 3000 BCE

    Namer unites Upper& Lower Egypt

    (Political - green)
  • 2000 BCE

    Chinese write on orale bones.

    (Social/Cultural - purple)
  • 1800 BCE

    Stonehenge monument is built.

    (Blue-Scientific)
  • 1200 BCE

    Sumerians record 'Gilgamesh' epic

    (Social/Cultural - purple)
  • 1150 BCE

    Olmec civilization begins in Mexico.

    (Political - green)

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