The Age of Madness

The year zero! The Romans were euphoric, they were now so rich, the streets of Rome ran with gold and they were well on the way to ruling the known world! Read the rest of this entry »

The Age of Carnage

Well, the World is simply boiling by 1000 BCE.

If the last two millennia were the Age of Terror, then this millennia must be the Age of Carnage. The Age of Madness is yet to come! Read the rest of this entry »

The Age of Iron

The pacifism of nomadic hunter gatherers, where sociability, hospitality and trade between groups is vital for survival, dies a slow death now. Isolated tribal groups will still operate under these principles, but they are becoming isolated from the land due to climate change and competition for resources which now begins to fuel the growth of Empires. Read the rest of this entry »

The Age of Bronze

In this period, things really start to hot up! Read the rest of this entry »

The Age of Travel and Trade

So we now have World wide trade, agriculture and social organisation, with villages and cities and kings and priests and myths and stories handed down from our ancestors. We are skilled artisans with everything going for us.

This is the time of the Neolithic Revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

The Age of Pottery and Villages

This period lays the foundation for the history we know about from archaeology and the written record. Read the rest of this entry »

The Age of the Flood

This time period is the most misunderstood and the most dramatic by far.

The Ice Age lost its grip of the planet and vast areas of land became submerged. We know that Humans from the time of Homo Erectus preferred to live on the sea shore, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that many ancient archaeological remains are currently lost beneath the oceans. Read the rest of this entry »

The Dawn of Time

The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, according to current theory.

10 million years ago there were fifty species of apes living in the world. The Earth was truly a Planet of the Apes, many different species of apes who varied enormously. By 8 million years ago, they had all disappeared in a major extinction event. No one knows why they disappeared, but we do know there was a massive climate change and the tropical forests in Africa were giving way to vast grasslands at this time. The environment was changing out of all recognition and all life had to adapt to this change. Read the rest of this entry »