1. THE PREHUMAN WORLD Big Bang 10+ billion BC5 billion BC Earth forms 3.5 billion BC life begins 500 million BC multicelled 250 50 5 mammals primates hominids (australopithecenes)

2. HUMAN PREHISTORY 1 million BC40 10 3125 thousand BC homo erectush. sapiens neanderthalensis h. sapiens sapiens paleolithic age neolithic age civilization

3. AGES OF MAN 40000 BC8000 BC 3000 BC 1000 BC paleolithic neolithic bronze iron

4. PERIODS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 3000 BC2000 BC1000 BC 0600 BC400 AD 14001600 pre-classical classical medieval renaissance modern Greek Roman

5. TWO TRADITIONS CONVERGE 3000 BC1200 BC 30AD800 BC 312 “medieval synthesis” Judeo-Christian Greco-Roman trojan war exodus Iliad Exodus 332 BC Alexander Jesus Constantine 1400 16001100 crusades renaissance 630 Mohammed ????

6. AGES OF GREECE 3000 BC2000 BC1000 BC 0600 BC400 AD 14001600

7. AGE OF ROBOTS 2008 AD 158285 AD humanity enslavedEarth destroyed by comet