An Executive Summary of the History of Everything....

Great Periods of History:


History of the Universe - Big Bang, Planck Era, Separation of Fundamental Forces, Cosmic Inflation, Elementary Particles, Radiation, Formation of Nuclei, Formation of Atoms, Formation of Stars, Formation of Galaxies, Nucleo-Synthesis of Heavy Elements, Stellar Evolution, Evolution of Cosmic Landscape, Formation of Solar System


Earth & Life History - Formation of Earth, Origin of Life, Formation of Continents, Origin of Eukaryotes, Cambrian Explosion, Vertebrates, Colonization of Land & Air, Tetrapods, Dinosaurs, Asteroids, Mass Extinctions, Flowering Plants, Mammals, Birds, Primates, Apes


Human Prehistory - Missing Link?, Bipedalism, Australopithecines, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Stone Tools, Making Fires, Neanderthals, Homo Sapiens, Out of Africa, Hunter Gatherer Bands, Woolly Mammoths, Saber-Tooth Cats, Ice Age, Cave Art, Rituals


Agricultural Revolution & Settled Societies - Fertile Crescent, Staple Crops (e.g. Wheat, Rice, Barley, Corn), Domestication of Animals, Tribes, Chieftains, Pottery, Villages, Towns, Defensive Walls, Tribal Warfare, Horticulture, Social Stratification


Earliest Civilizations & God Kings - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China, Minoans, Persians, Hittites, Kings & Empires, Writing, Wheel, Pyramids, Horses & Chariots, Bronze & Iron, Vedas, Taxation & Accounting, Public Works, Money


Classical Age - Greece, Democracy, Birth of Scientific Thinking, Mathematics, flowering of Arts, India, 1st Unification of China, great Philosophers, Traders, Buddha, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Roman Empire, Jesus Christ, Christianity


Middle Ages - Barbarian Invasions, Collapse of Rome, Prophet Mohamed, Islam, Caliphate of Baghdad, Viking raids, Knights, Crusades, Maya, Byzantium, Feudalism, Incas, Aztecs, Japan, Tang & Song Dynasties in China, Mongol Hordes, Black Death, Cathedrals, Castles, Popes, Silk Road, Hindu-Arabic Numerals


Renaissance & Exploration - Italy, Florence, Brunelleschi, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, European Navel Powers, Spain, Portugal, Printing Press, Guns & Cannon, Mogul India, Ottoman Empire, Americas, East India Companies, Conquistadors, Inquisition, Copernicus, Columbus, Slavery, Plantations, Birth of Modern Science


Reformation & Enlightenment - Martin Luther & Reformation, Holland, England, France, USA, Germany, Galileo, Descartes, Isaac Newton, Modern Philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, Noble Savage, Republicanism, Rights of Man, Economics of Adam Smith, Geology of Jame Hutton, Baroque, Wars over Religion


Revolution & War - Industrial Revolution, Napoleon, European Imperialism, Darwin & Evolution, Luise Pasteur & Germ Theory, Marxism, US Civil War & Emancipation of Slaves, Freud, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Bolshevik Russia, Nationalism, Einstein & Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Great Depression, World Wars I & II, Nazis & Fascists, Atom Bomb, Cubism, Universal Suffrage, Modernism, Penicillin


Modern Age - Independence of Colonies, Communist China, Mass Consumerist Culture, Environmentalism, Discovery of DNA, Triumph of Capitalism & Democracy (may be...), Global Superpowers, Terrorism, Emerging Markets, Information Age, Post-Modernism, The Pill, Post-Colonialism, Civil Rights, Vietnam, AIDS, Collapse of Communism (almost...), Globalization, Environmental Disasters, Black Gold (Oil) & Oil Shocks, Genetic Engineering, 9-11, Obama