Big history: from the Big Bang to the present

The depths of time and space. Expanding into universe (13.7 billion-4.6 billion years ago)

Living earth (4.6 billion-5 million years ago)

Human emergence: one species (5 million-35,000 years ago)

Advanced hunting and gathering (35,000-10,000 years ago)

Ten thousand warm years. Early agriculture (8000-3500 BCE)

Early cities (3500-800 BCE)

The Afro-Eurasian network (800 BCE-200 CE)

Expanding the Afro-Eurasian network (200-1000 CE)

Emergence of American civilizations (200-1450 CE)

One Afro-Eurasia (1000-1500 CE)

Connecting the globe (1450-1800 CE)

Industrialization (1750-2000 CE)

What now? What next?