Turning points

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

Prehistory

Paleolithic Age

• 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)

• Natufian society
• settlement
• rise of the oceans

Neolithic Age

• semi-permanent or permanent settlement
  • domestication of plants
  • domestication of herd animals

Rise of Civilization

• metal working
  • Copper Age
  • Bronze Age
• domestication of horses for transportation
• domestication of camels for transportation
• rise of cities and complex social structures

Civilization

writing

• oral traditions made permanent with writing
• written law (Hammuarabi's Code)

technological advance

• 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:
    • History of Air Conditioning

See also

• Ages of Man - the ancient Greek mythological stages of mankind (Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Heroic Age, Iron Age)