tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88480092009-02-21T07:35:00.614-08:00List of important historical events.Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03248939012548620044noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848009.post-1116362147526026292005-05-17T13:33:00.000-07:002008-06-16T21:51:39.316-07:00(To see reviews of my book about electronics, please go <br />to the bottom of this long page.)<br />================================<br />================================<br />.<br />SOME DATES (APPROX.) FOR A <br />PERSPECTIVE ON HISTORY<br />.<br />From Encyc. Brit., and www.wikipedia.org,<br />and various recently written books. <br />.<br />[Square brackets indicate that there's <br />no independent evidence for stories.]<br />.<br />---------------------------------------------------<br />By Dan Shanefield<br />http://homepage.mac.com/shanefield<br />--------------------------------------------------<br />.<br />Paleolith.Axe(ManMadeTool)700,000BC<br />Representational art (caves) ..35,000 BC<br />Ceramic (Vestonice Venus)...26,000 BC<br />Dogs tamed (for hunting) ... 13,000 BC<br />Pleistocene ice age ended.. 12,000 BC<br />Agriculture (neolithic era) .. 11,000 BC<br />Cats tamed (against mice) .. 7,500 BC<br />Oxen tamed (for plowing, etc.) . 7,000 BC<br /><br />(Note the tremendous progress from<br />4,000 to 3,000 BC ! This was where the<br />Tigris & Euphrates deltas, and the uphill<br />slope toward Iran, caused wide variety of <br />plants & animals that could be domesticat-<br />ed, according to "Guns, Germs, and Steel,"<br />by Jared Diamond, Norton, N.Y., 1999.) <br /><br />Cities (Erbil, Mesopotamia) .... 4,000 BC<br />Copper .............................. 4,000 BC<br />Wheels (Mesopotamia)........ 4,000 BC<br />Writing (Mesopotamia)......... 3,500 BC<br />Bronze (copper, plus 10%tin).... 3,300 BC<br />Horses tamed ............... 2,500 BC<br />Aryans invaded India.... 2,000 BC<br />Sanskrit....................... 2,000 BC<br />Glass .......................... 2,000 BC<br />[Hindu "Veda"] written ......... 1,800 BC<br />Hammurabi Laws (Babylon)... 1,700 BC<br /><br />(Note that both Old & NewTestam. stories<br />had been written in neighboring countries<br />1,000 years before either Bible was written.<br />See "Ugarit" & "Zoroaster" in Encyc. Brit.)<br /><br />Ugarit [Old Testament stories] .. 1,300 BC<br />[Abraham].................... 1,300 BC<br />Shasu tribe [Yahweh] ...... 1,300 BC<br />Phonetic writing (Phoenicia)... 1,200 BC<br />Iron (Hittites, 4% carbon) ........... 1,200 BC<br />Steel (Cyprus, 1% carbon).............1,100 BC<br />Zoroaster [New Testament Stories]..1,000 BC<br />[Moses, Exodus, Joshua]...... 1,000 BC<br />Josiah's scribes wrote [OldTestamt.]...620 BC<br />Confucius......................... 500 BC<br />Gautama Buddha.............. 500 BC<br />[Ramayana] written .......... 300 BC<br />Voting (among wealthy Greeks)..500 BC<br />Alexander.............................. 325 BC<br />Aristotle (logic) ..................... 350 BC<br />Euclid (geometry & logic).... 300 BC<br />Carthage (all killed, bldgs. flattened)..146 BC<br />Caesar.............................. 50 BC<br />------[Jesus]-------------------- Zero AD<br />Constantine (Rome Christianized)..300AD<br />Byzantine Empire........... 400 AD<br />Mohammed.................... 500 AD<br />"China"porcelain (Tang dynasty)..600 AD<br />Uighurs invaded Turkey ......... 700 AD<br />Magyars invaded Hungary .... . 900 AD<br />Chalemagne (Saxons Christianized)..800 AD<br />Alfred Of England (Vikings were Christianized<br /> and stopped raiding) ...................900 AD<br />Beowulf ......................... 1000 AD<br />Norman Conquest of England.......1066 AD<br />Renaissance (old knowledge & trade)..1100<br />Genghis Khan Empire .......... 1210 <br />Guns.............................. 1300 <br />Plague (Black Death)......... 1350<br />Chaucer .......................... 1350<br />Martin Luther (ProtestantReformation)..1500<br />Ottoman Empire........... 1500<br />Galileo (experimentalism).....1600<br />Newton (mathematical physics) .... 1700<br />European porcelain............. 1710<br />Watt (industrial revolution) ........ 1750<br />U.S.A. (broad-based democracy) ... 1776<br />Eli Whitney (Yale 1792): "Mass Produc-<br />.....-tion" of interchangeable parts......1798 <br />Pasteur (germs, vaccines)........... 1870<br />Edison (practical electricity) ........ 1880<br />Einstein (counter-intuitive physics).....1905<br />Transistor (electronics revolution).....1948<br />USSR (20 million killed).......... 1922 to 1991<br />Communist China (30 million killed)..1949---<br />Double-Blind Audio Test (by DJS)...... 1974<br />"Meme" (Richard Dawkins)..... 1976<br />Hamah, Syria(25K killed, bldgs.flattened).1982<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------<br />SOME IMPORANT EUROPEAN MIGRATIONS:<br /><br />600 BC... Celts (speaking Gaelic) occupied <br /> arc from northern Turkey, up through <br /> France (Gaul), over to Ireland. Tempor-<br /> arily conquered by Rome, then split up.<br /> <br />400 AD... Goths, from Sweden (Gothenberg)<br /> and northern Germany, went south in <br /> various temporary streams, into Italy and <br /> Spain, and even into northern Africa.<br /><br />800 AD... Vikings, from Norway and Denmark<br /> in various streams, temporarily went into <br /> England and elsewhere, becoming the <br /> royalty and nobles of Normandy and Russia.<br />------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />For more about Old and New Testam. stories<br />(1300 and 1000 BC, Ugarit and Zoroaster),<br />see my essay at http://oldnnew2.blogspot.com.<br /><br />------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />To see my essay "Four Famous Frauds," click on "4FRAUDS" below:<br /><A HREF="http://linkerupper.blogspot.com/">4FRAUDS</A><br /><br />------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />To read about the author of this, search google for "shanefield" and then click on "CV" near the top.<br /><br />-------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />For technorati tags:<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technology history" rel="tag">technology history</a><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/religion history" rel="tag">religion history</a><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bible stories" rel="tag">bible stories</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8848009-111636214752602629?l=historylist.blogspot.com'/></div>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03248939012548620044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848009.post-1100825946476405212004-11-18T16:56:00.000-08:002005-10-24T12:50:29.756-07:00To see two reviews, that say the book is unusually easy to read,<br />and also very easy to understand, <br />please click on colored word below:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://easybook.blogspot.com">REVIEWS</A><br /><br /><br /><br />To see the author's resume (CV), <br />although it's not as interesting as the reviews, <br />just click on the colored word below:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://homepage.mac.com/shanefield/Resume1.html">RESUME</A><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8848009-110082594647640521?l=historylist.blogspot.com'/></div>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03248939012548620044noreply@blogger.com