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Timeline homes / Modern Kids

  • Cave
    11,000 BCE

    Cave

    Primitive people did not know how to build houses, hiding from the wind and cold in the caves. They were the first "discoverers" of natural caves.
  • Wigwam
    10,000 BCE

    Wigwam

    In the steppe places, semi-desert, tundra there were dwellings made by the type of huts. They are made from branches of shrubs, trees and covered with grass, animal skins and other materials. They were built in North America, Central Asia, Siberia.
  • Adobe
    5000 BCE

    Adobe

    It is one of the oldest building materials. It was used by the ancient Egyptians.
  • Saklya
    400 BCE

    Saklya

    In the mountainous and rocky areas, stone was used for construction. Walls were built from it. The roof was made of wood or stone too.
  • Insula
    200 BCE

    Insula

    In the architecture of ancient Rome - a multi-storey residential building with rooms and apartments
  • igloo
    400

    igloo

    Winter home of the Eskimos.
  • Mansions
    900

    Mansions

    In the old days in Russia was called more or less extensive wooden residential structure, with all its parts.
  • Cottage
    1100

    Cottage

    In the forest and taiga areas, where the tree was in abundance, the houses were built of wood. Here you can mention the chopped Russian hut, Ukrainian hut. In Europe, wood was also used for construction.
  • Marquee
    1300

    Marquee

    Temporary lightweight construction of fabrics, leather or branches, a kind of tent that is large. Usually constructed in the form of a cone. Since ancient times, used by the eastern nomadic peoples.
  • Ward
    1400

    Ward

    Russian medieval, mostly residential stone or brick buildings.
  • Manor house
    1500

    Manor house

    In Russian architecture there is a separate settlement, a complex of residential, commercial, park and other buildings, as well as, as a rule, a manor park that make up a single whole.
  • Terraced house

    Terraced house

    In order to reduce the cost and speed up the construction of steel, massively erect residential semi-detached multisectional houses of a terraced type (several semi-detached houses in a row with common walls, each building mirroring the appearance of a neighboring one). The streets of English cities flooded the unsightly rows of brick houses on two floors - downstairs a kitchen with a coal stove, exits to the street and a mini-garden, upstairs - the only living room for all.
  • Apartment house

    Apartment house

    Apartment building built for the rental of apartments.
  • Suburban house

    Suburban house

    Automotive development in developed countries in the 1920s and 1930s led to the growth of suburbs, especially in the United States. After the Second World War, new technologies of mass construction of the same type, relatively inexpensive residential buildings appeared.
  • Skyscraper

    Skyscraper

    Very tall building with bearing steel or reinforced concrete frame, designed for the life and work of people.