History by historical land mass is yet another wonderful lens into knowledge. These insights are the backbone to Mike‘s articles and his longer effort books. A part of his lifelong commitment to study. While they are not complete, they are useful.
History of the Lands: Europe
Terra Amata Site, France
circa 400,000 Years Ago
Nice, France
Hominin World Population: 2 Million (maybe)
300,000 BCE
Very speculative.
Extinction: Homo heidelbergensis
200,000 Years Ago
World Population: 1.5 Million
By 70,000 BCE
Divje Babe Flute
50 to 60 Thousand BCE
Upper Paleolithic Cave Art with Symbols
circa 40,000 BCE
Spain & France
Bone Flute
38,000 BCE
38,000 to 33,000 BCE
Extinction: Neanderthals
38,000 BCE
Extinction range: 38,000 BCE to 22,000 BCE
Czeck: Dolní Věstonice Community
30,000 BCE
29 to 32 thousand years ago.
Sunghir Burial Site
30,000 BCE
32,000 Years Ago
Modern Skin Color Variety Emerges
By 25,000 Years Ago (+/- 10,000 years)
Seasonal Settlements at Franchthi Cave
20,000 BCE
From circa 20,000 to 3,000 BCE
Earliest Known Domesticated Animal: Dogs
By 20,000 BCE
Ukraine: Mezhyrich Community
18,000 BCE
15 to 20 Thousand Years Agao
World Population: 4 Million
10,000 BCE
Estimates range from 2 to 5 million
Neolithic Revolution
9,700 BCE
Start of "our" Holocene geological epoch
Phenotype Variation: Blue Eyes
8000 BCE
Genetic Mutation from the Neolithic Era
Greece: Sesklo Culture (Agrarian)
circa 7500 BCE
Europe/Mediterranean Agrarian Society
Cheese
Before 5500 BCE
Poland
Dispilio Tablet: European Proto-Writing
circa 5,260 BCE
7,260 Years Ago
Vinor Circular Building: a roundel
4900 BCE
Up to 7,900 Years Ago (Neolithic)
Skara Brae Scottish Village
3180 BCE
3180 to 2500 BCE
World Population: 15 Million
3000 BCE
Estimates range from 9 to 16 million
Cretan Hieroglyphic script: Greek Island
1900 BCE
from circa 1900 BCE to 1700 BCE
Dragons: Early Dinosaur Fossils
By 1600 BCE
The Birth of Logic
624 BCE
Circa 624-546 BCE
Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
Pythagoreanism
Father of Mathematics
Heraclitus
born circa 535 BCE
circa 535 to 475 BCE, likely aged about 60 years old
Anaxagoras (circa 500-428 BCE)
500 BCE
circa 450 BCE
Socrates (469 – 399 BCE)
Socratic Questioning
Father of Western Ethics
Democritus (460 BCE – circa 370 BCE)
Atomist
The Laughing Philosopher
Law of the Twelve Tables
451 BCE
Plato
b. 428 BCE
428 to 347 BCE
Aristotle
b. 384 BCE
384 to 322 BCE
Pyrrho of Elis
b. 360 BCE
360 to 270 BCE
Epicurus
b. 341 BCE
341 to 270 BCE
Zeno of Citium (334-262 BCE)
Stoicism
Father of Stoicism
Cicero (106-43 BCE)
106 BCE
84 Generations Ago
Seneca the Younger (4 BCE – 65 CE)
Stoic Tradition
Roman Stoic Statesman
Epictetus (50-135 CE)
circa 100 CE
78 Generations Ago
Marcus Aurelius
born 121
121 to 180 CE
Word-Spacing
1000 CE
Bernard of Chartres (circa 1070 – 1130)
Neoplatonist
French Philosopher
Peter Abelard
born 1079
1079 to 1141
Magna Carta
1215
Upper and Lowercase Starts
1300 CE
Hourglass
1400
Printing Press Invented
1440
Germany
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
28 Feb 1533
Francis Bacon
born 1561
1561 to 1626
Galileo Galilei
born 1564
1564 to 1642
Microscope Invented = Microworld Discovered!
1590 to 1640 CE
Rene Descartes
1596-1649
The Birth of Baroque Art
circa 1600 CE
Late 16th to Early 18th Century
King James Bible Published
1611
Bartholomew Legate Burned at the Stake
18 Mar 1612
Baruch Spinoza
born 1632
1632-1677, aged 44
John Locke
born 1632
1632 to 1704
The Invention of Calculus
5 Jul 1687
Voltaire
born 1694
1694-1778
David Hume
born 1711
1711-1776
Immanuel Kant
born 1724
1724-1804
John Stuart Mill
born 1806
1806-1873
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
British Naturalist
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
British Naturalist and Explorer
Father of Biogeography
Friedrich Nietzsche
born 1844
1844-1900
Electromagnetic Radiation Theory
1864
Jean-Paul Sartre
born 1905
1905-1980
Electron Microscope = Nanoworld Discovered!
1931
Discovery: Neanderthal Symbolic Thought
2018