Exercise:
A Timeline of History

By Steve Stockdale

A Timeline of History

Make a list of all the notable People, Periods, Events and Discoveries (inventions, achievements, etc.) you can think of.

Plot each person or event you've listed on a timeline of history, from 500 B.C. to the present.

What inferences, insights, observations can you make?

People

Alexander
Aristotle
Attila the Hun
Buddha
Caesar
Charlemagne
Columbus
Confucius
Copernicus
Curie
Darwin
Descarte
Einstein
Fermi
Galileo
Gutenberg
Harvey Hitler
Jenner
Jesus
Joule
Kepler
King Arthur
Kubla Khan
Leif Ericson
Leonardo da Vinci
Marco Polo
Martin Luther
Marx
Muhammed
Newton
Plato
Ptolemy Shakespeare
Socrates
St. Thomas Aquinas
Pilgrims
Thoreau
Salk

Periods

African Slave Trade
Communism
Crusades
Divine Right of Kings
Feudal system
Gladiators
Holocaust
Holy Roman Empire
Reformation
Roman Empire Fall
Spanish Inquisition
Witch trials
Inca Empire

Events

100 Years War
Decl of Independence
Appian Way
French Revolution
gunpowder in Europe
Hippocratic oath
Korea
Magna Carta
Punic Wars
WW I
WW II
Great Wall of China
Battle of Hastings
Irish Repub Army
Viet Nam
30 Years War
"Manifest Destiny"
end of dinosaurs
Bill of Rights
Berlin Wall United Nations
Kennedy/Nixon election
Space flight/moon walk
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
MLK "I Have A Dream"
"Walden"

Discoveries

aqueducts
blood circulation
printing press
radioactivity
Geocentric earth orbit
Heliocentric earth orbit
smallpox vaccine
"New World"
nuclear reaction
heat as element
heat as energy
tools
language
agriculture
telescope
electricity
television
cellular phone
telephone
macadam roads
microchip
rayon
polio vaccine
Internet
aluminum
pre-fab construction
air conditioning
quantum mechanics
hydraulic brakes
personal computer
relativity
information systems
movies
steam engine

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Exercise: A Timeline of History