social science timeline Flashcards
what year did the berlin wall fall?
1969
around what time did the pleistocene start?
2.6 million years ago
how old is the oldest known fossil record of homo sapiens?
300,000 years ago
how long ago did the last glacial maximum occur?
20,000 years ago
when did the younger dryas period last from?
12,900 - 11,700 years ago
how long ago did the holocene start?
11,700 years ago
from what year to what year did the early holocene/greenlandian stage last?
11,700 - 8,236 years ago
how long ago did the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada collapse?
8,236 years ago
what is the timespan of the middle holocene/northgrippian stage?
8,236 - 4,250 years ago
how many years ago did the mesopotamian civilization emerge?
5,500 years ago
how many years ago was there a severe climate event that possibly resulted in a eurasian megadrought?
4,250 years ago
what year did the western roman empire collapse?
476 CE
what was the timespan of the little ice age?
1300-1850