MMW 11 Final: Jordan Final Exam: Timeline

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

8000 bc - jericho settlers domesticated cereals but still hunted. 7500 - many communities in the fertile crescent completely dependent upon farming. 8th mil - trade developed for items such as obsidian. 6500 farming begins in south china with domestication of rice. Earliest farming in greece and the balkans. Mesopotamian early cultures: hassuna -> halfian -> samarran. 5800 farming in loess soil in yellow river basin. 4300 earliest megalithic tombs of western europe. 3200 longshan culture due to population increase due to introduction of rice. 2500 bc bell beaker cultures in western europe. Bronze use develops throughout europe until 1500. 2100 -1600 xia dynasty (possibly = longshan neolithic period) 2000 - mycenaeans migrated from the balkans into greece. Minoan civilization develops on crete / creation of small kingdoms. 1766 bc shang dynasty founded by king tang (introduction of oracle bones) 1628 - eruption of volcano on the island of theras. 770-475 spring & autumn period of eastern zhou.