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Modern humans appear 150,000 BC
The evolution of modern humans begins the creation of human geography. -
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Innovation in Human Culture 60,000 BC
Stone tools, paintings, and jewelry are developed, giving rise to an artistic element of human culture. -
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Grain Farming in Fertile Crescent in 7000 BC
Grains such as wheat and barley bgan to be cultivated in the Fertile Crescent during this time. We know one of the hearths of agriculture and how the conditions and plants available impacted human development. -
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Eratosthenes, lived 285 to 205 BC
Eratosthenes was a Greek Geographer. He was the first person to use the term geography, which gave the subject of world study an official label. He also came up with a close estimate of the Earth's circumference. -
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Jesus Christ is crucified 30 AD
One of the key parts of Christianity is Christ's cruxification on the cross. To Christians, this was a sacrifice for mankind's sins. -
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Ptolemy writes the Almagest
Composed of astronomy info, the book shows that mankind's understanding of the world and the universe was taking a more logical, knowledgable step. -
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Ptolemy maps
Ptolemy created 26 maps of countries, enhancing people's knowledge of physical geography and location. -
570
Muhammad is born
Proclaimed to be the last prophet my Muslims, Muhammad would found Islam during his lifetime. -
Jan 1, 1348
Black Death in Europe
An epidemic that killed millions, the plague represented a case of contagious diffusion throughout the land. -
Oct 12, 1492
Columbus sights land on his voyage to the Americas
This journey served as a sginificant contact point between the Americas and their indigienous people, and a large empire in Europe. This would lead to relocation diffusion as well as numerous other phenomena (cultural extinction, for example). -
Jan 1, 1519
Cortez lands in modern-day Mexico
This would lead to the takeover of the Aztec empire, and subsequent cultural assimilation and relocation diffusion. -
Jamestown is founded
Jamestown was the beginning of a colonization process by the British empire of North America. Predictably, migration would lead to relocation diffusion and the development of new cultural traits, as well as agricultural innovation. -
Plymouth Colony is created
The pilgrims were originally refugees. They fled to tolerant Holland, but feared losing their cultural identity. Their migration would lead to relocation diffusion and acculturation to Natives in the Americas, -
First newspaper in America
Published in the Boston colony, it allowed information to diffuse contagiously more quickly among the population. -
American Revolutionary War Ends
The United States is created as an independent state. Within this state, a new nation and culture would develop. At the time, it took mostly from the Americans' British ancestry. -
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
Originally developed in England, the cotton gin seperated seeds from fiber much more quickly. The result was that the United States's agriculture and industry was bolstered. -
Edward Jenner tests vaccination
Jenner injected a boy with cowpox, which he found gave him immunity to smallpox as well. Healthcare is greatly improved. -
American Civil War Begins
Confederate forces shelled Fort Sumter, leading to a conflict over the division of one state into 2. -
George Perkins Marsh publishes Man and Nature
His book explored the effects of anthropogenic changes to the environment. This is essentially human geography: How humans live and impact the world around them. -
Filamented lightbulb is patented
Derived from Thomas Edison's works, this new technology would improve human development. -
Carnegie Steel Company is founded
Headed by Andrew Carnegie, the business is one of the pinnacles of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. -
Hitler calls for the deportation of Jews
Known as the Holocaust, this mass murder perpetuated by Nazi Germany is the most well-known example of attempted cultural genocide. -
Israel is established as a Jewish state
Despite protests from Arabs, British officials established Israel as a Jewish territory. It is probably the closest thing to a nation-state that exists today. -
NATO is founded
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to ensure that the Western states would protect themselves in the event they were invaded by the USSR. It is a pact formed out of defense in regards to Human Geography. -
Carl Sauer helps write "Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth"
The book detailed environmental geography, the impacts of humans on physical geography. -
Civil Rights Act
Intended to grant minority races equal rights, the Civil Rights Act was weakly enforced at first but eventually improved HDI by giving people more freedom. -
Green Revolution produces larger harvests in India
Intended to help India become self sufficient, the Green Revolution proved to by the most successful agricultural experiment in India. -
Josip Broz Tito dies
Tito was the dictator of Yugoslavia. After his death, the fragmented state broke apart, and nationalism gave rise to wars and new countries. -
Rwandan Genocide
Hutus in Rwanda tried to exterminate the race of Tutsis occupying the country in a case of attempted cultural genocide. -
Terrorist Attacks on Twin towers and Pentagon
Al-Qaeda piloted planes flew into vital centers of American infrastructure. This prompted the government to take actions against terrorism, and would cause the US to enter the war in the Middle East. -
Humans discover rapid climate change
Global warming is a major part of environmental geography, due to the effects of human emissions on the atmosphere and the subsequent temperature fluctuations throughout the globe.