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c. 3500 BC: The first monument of which there is still a trace (Duma na nGiall) is built on the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland. [2] c. 3500 BC: Tin is discovered. c. 3500 BC: The Eruption of Mount Isarog in the Philippines. [3] c. 3500 BC: The Sumerians develop a logographic script, cuneiform
c. 3700-1800 BC: Caral-Supe flourished between the fourth and second millennia BC, with the formation of the first city generally dated to around 3500 BC, at Huaricanga, in the Fortaleza area. It is from 3100 BC onward that large-scale human settlement and communal construction become clearly apparent, which lasted until a period of decline ...
This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the time from the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) to the beginning of ancient history.
c. 3500 BC Garth tsunami impacts the Northern Isles. [20] c. 3000 BC First henge monuments. [19] c. 2600 BC Main phase of construction at Stonehenge begins, replacing earlier wooden and earthen works. c. 2300 BC Arrival of the Beaker People in Britain, replacing 90% of the earlier population. [21] [19]
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
3500–2340 BC – Sumer: wheeled carts, potter's wheel, White Temple ziggurat, bronze tools and weapons. [2] First to Fourth dynasty of Kish in Mesopotamia. Sumerian temple of Janna at Eridu erected. Temple at Al-Ubaid and tomb of Mes-Kalam-Dug built near Ur, Chaldea. 3000 BC – Tin is in use in Mesopotamia soon after this time. [3] [page needed]
Aztec calendar (sunstone) Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE – 250 CE), the Classic (250–900 CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial Period (1521–1821), and ...
The Upper Paleolithic extends from 50,000 and 12,000 years ago, ... 3500 BCE. Settlements became ... but for a long time apparently not available for agricultural tools.