Scientific Revolution Timeline

• The Human Revolution refers to the remarkable and sudden emergence of language, consciousness, and culture in our species, Homosapiens.
• Historians call the early period of human history as the stone age
• First humans emerged from Africa, and lived simultaneously with other species
• The earliest part of the stone age was the paleolithic age or old stone age
• People in the paleolithic age are nomadic groups of people
• Paleolithic people survived by hunting and gathering
• Paleo diet or caveman diet is a diet heavy on proteins and low in carbohydrates
• In the paleolithic age, men are assigned to hunt
• In the paleolithic age, women are assigned to gather
• Some scientists believe that equity existed between paleolithic men and women
• The first tool made by humans is a hammerstone
• Paleolithic people made devices from a hard stone called flint
• Flint is a hard, sedimentary crystalline from the mineral quartz
• The first use of fire is dated back to the paleolithic age
• In the paleolithic age, iron pyrite was used to generate fire when struck against another rock
• The neolithic period was the first agricultural revolution
• During the neolithic period, people lived in small tribes composed of families
• During the neolithic period, the domestication of large animals resulted in a dramatic increase in social inequality
• Neolithic tribes are headed by a charismatic leader of tribal groups
• During the neolithic revolution, the growth of agriculture made permanent houses possible
• Mud brick houses and slit-house settlements were also common in the neolithic age
• The clothing of neolithic humans were made of animal skins
• The neolithic people relied upon the foods produced from cultivated lands
• The neolithic society encouraged the growth of settlemets
• The neolithic society started the production of surplus crop yields
• Neolithic stone artifacts are by definition polished
• Cuneiform is the ancient handwriting in the sumerian civilization
• The sumerian invented a seed sowing machine, which could plant seeds more quickly and evenly than sowing by hand
• Hieroglyphics is the ancient way of writing in the egyptian civilization
• Paper or papyrus is the medium of writing in the egyptian civilization
• Water clock or clepsydra is the form of clock created in the egyptian civilization
• Silk is a material used to make clothing in the chinese civilization
• The great wall of china is a famous landmark utilized as a defense back in the chinese civilization
• Gunpowder originated from the chinese civilization
• The alarm clock was invented during the greek civilization
• The first water mill was first established during the greek civilization
• The first newspaper is dated back to the roman civilization
• Bound books or codex was first seen in the roman civilization
• Middle ages is the term for western europe during the post classical era
• The middle ages began with the fall of the roman empire and ended in the 1400s