World Timeline
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Stone Age
50,000 BC - 6000 BC
The use of metals was scarce, and the most common building materials/weapons were wood and stone. Much of this history is undocumented.
Bronze Age
6000 BC - 1000 BC
Mining and the use of Bronze made more powerful tools/weapons and it was an age where the first writing systems became devised and used.
Iron Age
1000 BC - 0
The era led to developments in agricultural production, and we see the first evidence of major religious texts.
Modern Age
0 - 3000
Enough happened 2000 years ago that it seems appropriate to start the modern age at 0 following all of the events.
Stone Age
(50,000 BC - 6000 BC)
The use of metals was scarce, and the most common building materials/weapons were wood and stone. Much of this history is undocumented.

- 50,000
Original hunter gatherer societies found in:
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Japan: A Paleolithic culture from around 30,000 BC constitutes the first known habitation of the islands of Japan. This was followed from around 14,500 BC by a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture characterized by pit dwelling and rudimentary agriculture. Clay vessels from the period are among the oldest surviving examples of pottery.
- 10,000
Agricultural Revolution
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The Neolithic Revolution was the first agricultural revolution, representing a transition from hunting and gathering nomadic life to an agriculture existence. It evolved independently in six separate locations worldwide circa 10,000–7,000 years BP (8,000–5,000 BC). The earliest known evidence exists in the tropical and subtropical areas of southwestern/southern Asia, northern/central Africa and Central America. There are some key defining characteristics. The introduction of agriculture resulted in a shift from nomadic to more sedentary lifestyles, and the use of agricultural tools such as the plough, digging stick and hoe made agricultural labor more efficient.[citation needed] Animals were domesticated, including dogs. Another defining characteristic of the period was the emergence of pottery, and, in the late Neolithic period, the wheel was introduced for making pottery. Neolithic architecture included houses and villages built of mud-brick and wattle and daub and the construction of storage facilities, tombs and monuments.
-9,000
Cattle & Copper
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Copper metalworking was employed as early as 9000 BC in the Middle East; and a copper pendant found in northern Iraq dated to 8700 BC. Ground and polished stone tools continued to be created and used during the Neolithic period. Numeric record keeping evolved from a system of counting using small clay tokens that began in Sumer about 8000 BC.