A History of Communications 35,000 BC - 1998 AD

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The Nomadic Age
35,000 BC First paleolithic "writings."
30,000 BC Crude Cro-Magnon lunar calendar used to hunt. (First information Revolution)
12,600 BC Lascaux Cave Paintings

The Agricultural Age ("Civilization" begins)
8000 BC The Agicultural Age begins in the area around Israel, Iraq, Syria, and Lebenon.
8000 BC First farming and herding in the Near East.
8000 BC First objects used for accounting (clay cones). (Second Information Revolution)
4000-3000 BC Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language develops. It spreads with the success of the people living in the Russian Steps Northeast of the Black Sea. Advances in metallurgy are the key and the domestication of the horse. Granddaughter cultures spread West and North of Hungary.
3400 BC First Sumerian Pictograms
3500 BC Farming becomes the dominant lifestyle in the Near East
3300 BC The Wheel is invented
3100 BC Earliest Hieroglyphics (on slate in Egypt)
3100 BC Sumerians begin to use ideograms. Symbolic repesentation and thought emerges.
3000 BC Earliest Papyrus rolls (Egypt)
3000 BC? First Abacus of record
3000 BC First Writing system in Sumer
2700 BC First Sumerian Calendar on record
2000 BC Earliest recorded postal system (Egypt)
2000 BC The Phoenician Alphabet is developed
2000 BC Stonehenge built
1500 BC The palace of Phaistos on Crete uses movable type to make impressions on clay discs.
1470 BC Aztec Calendar developed
1250 BC The Ten Commandments are written
900-700 BC The earliest books of the Old Testament are written in Hebrew
900-700 BC Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are written. Ancient Athens was only about 200,00 people.
472 BC The rise of the Greek Tradegy in literature
400 BC Wei Tang in China invents ink from lampblack mixed with animal and vegetable oils
295 BC Euclid's Elements codify classical geometry
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