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Turning Points (or Paradigm Shifts)
Objectives:
- to evaluate change and its causes and effects
- to comprehend and compare time, change, and causality
- to evaluate why change does not occur (stability v. change)
- to comprehend that different things take place at different places and times across history (Contingency)
Note:
- this page can be used alternatively with timelines, or be used to generate timelines
Major Turning Points in World History[edit | edit source]
Prehistory[edit | edit source]
Paleolithic Age[edit | edit source]
- Early Hominids
- fire
- tools
- domestication of dogs
- Cro-Magnum man:
- >> link to early modern humans page
[Ice Age]
- settlement of the Americas
{End of Ice Age] (Holocene Era)[edit | edit source]
- Natufian society
- settlement
- rise of the oceans
Neolithic Age[edit | edit source]
- semi-permanent or permanent settlement
- domestication of plants
- domestication of herd animals
Rise of Civilization[edit | edit source]
- metal working
- Copper Age
- Bronze Age
- domestication of horses for transportation
- domestication of camels for transportation
- rise of cities and complex social structures
Civilization[edit | edit source]
writing[edit | edit source]
- oral traditions made permanent with writing
- written law (Hammuarabi's Code)
technological advance[edit | edit source]
- Iron Age
- mass
- astronomy & mathematics
- navigation
- architecture
- warfare
Classical Period
- Greece
Modern Technologies
- modern Air Conditioner 1902 by Willis Carrier
- first home air conditioner, 1914
- installation of air conditioners in motive theaters: 1925
- common use of air conditioners in homes: 1950s
- sources:
See also[edit | edit source]
- Ages of Man - the ancient Greek mythological stages of mankind (Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Heroic Age, Iron Age)