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PETERSON MEANING
CLUSTERS
FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT
TIME LINE
By Carl H. Peterson
Copyright 2001

4.5 billion
years ago
The Earth
100,000
years ago
Homo sapiens

10,000 years ago

Bread
8,000 B.C.
Weaving cloth
4,000 B.C.
The solar calendar
4,000 B.C.
Writing

3,500 B.C.
The wheel

2,500 B.C.
Egyptians create papyrus

3,500 B.C.
Numbers

2,000 B.C.
Ice cream

3500 B.C.
Bronze discovered

Late eighteenth century

ice cream recipe
brought to America

3,000 B.C.
Early schools
2,600 B.C.
Pyramids of Giza

2,000 B.C.
Glass discovered