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Fractured Paradise: A Novel In Progress

by Oliver Smith
OliverSmith@CyberPoet.com

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Year Description
6,000,000 BCE Ground-dwelling apes and humans share last common ancestor, a ground-dwelling hominid called ramapithecus.
5,500,000 BCE Mediterranean Sea formed via 2600-foot high waterfall near Gibralter, from the Atlantic ocean.
The Rift forms in east Africa.
4,100,000 BCE Australopithecus afarensis appears in east Africa
Australopithecus (African Savanna) becomes bipedal
2,700,000 BCE Australopithecus garhi (east Africa) uses tools to cut food.
2,500,000 BCE Homo habilis appears in Ethiopia and Kenya
Homo habilis learn to knapp flint
1,600,000 BCE Homo erectus appears in eastern Africa
Homo erectus manufactures stone cleavers by bifacial flaking
Homo erectus stampeded game over cliffs,, stoned or clubbed the young or crippled of game, pursued some game until it dropped dead of exhaustion
Homo erectus learns to make and control fire
Earliest expression of Type "O" blood type.
800,000 BCE Homo antecessor flourishes in Iberia
700,000 BCE Homo neanderthalensis appears in cenral Europe and the Balkans.
500,000 BCE Hominid skulls are turned into drums, drinking cups and bowls
400,000 BCE Digging sticks and spears are fire-hardened
Huts with palisaded walls are built in France
300,000 BCE Homo sapiens sapiens appears in east Africa and southwest Asia
Homo sapiens spapiens possessed vocal tract for sophisticated speech.
Possible development of bicameral consciousness (left brain "I", right brain mysticism).
170,000 BCE Oldest known common female ancestor documented
140,000 BCE Hominids became the first large placental mammals in Australia.
Mass extinction of Australian species followed hominid arrival and use of throwing sticks (boomerang), heavy clubs (nulla-nulla), long spears and notched spear-throwers (woomers).
100,000 BCE Neanderthals in northen Iraq are first hominids to bury dead.
Earliest signs of spirituality and religious concepts.
90,000 BCE People living along coastal regions begin consuming salmon gathered from spawning streams and shellfish stranded by receding tides.
80,000 BCE Stone lamps fueled by animal fats are manufactured in Iraq and China.
70,000 BCE Burgeoning human populations force migrations in search of new territory.
Evidence seems to suggest that women and children traveled with men.
50,000 BCE Homo sapiens sapiens starts spreading into southen Asia, eastern Europe and western Africa.
Bifacially-flaked tools (the chipping method using percussion) dating to this period include spear points, scrapers and drills.
40,000 BCE Stone spearheads and hafted axes are developed.
Ferrous clays are mined in southern Africa, probably for use as cosmetics.
Aboriginal inhabitants of Japan manufacture the oldest known pottery. They were used for cosmetics and perfumes.
38,000 BCE Possible earliest use of the Atlatl (an Aztec word for a spear thrower), a device that is used to throw a light weight spear called a dart. The Australian Aborigines called it a Woomera.
35,000 BCE Twisted-fiber thread, jewelry, clay fertility figurines and corrals are developed.
Tally sticks appear at various locations around Eurasia and Africa.
33,000 BCE Some researchers believe that Homo sapiens sapiens appears along the Pacific coast of South America.
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis starts becoming extinct.
30,000 BCE Ancestors of San (or !Kung Bushman) peoples settle the Kalahari regions of southern Africa.
Slings (or perhaps spear-throwers) appear in Iberia.
Flint arrowheads appear in northwest Africa and Iberia. This presents the possibility that "self-bows" (bows made of a single piece of wood) had been developed.
29,000 BCE Cordage, nets and textiles made from woven cloth are manufactured in Central Europe.
25,000 BCE Cave paintings found in France, Spain and Africa show stas, planets, animals and people in various poses.
Fire-hardened J-curved throwing sticks appear in Australia.
Type "A" blood type starts to appear in Middle East.
22,000 BCE Humans appear in Japan.
20,000 BCE Barley and einkorn wheat is ground into gruel and flour. in the mountains of Turkey and Iraq.
The same people made skirts using twisted fiber strings. These are the first clothes known to be worn for symbolic rather than utilitarian purposes.
18,000 BCE People living in the Sudan and Chad process barley andeinkorn wheat into food products (the Sahara was still watered at the time).
Type "A" blood type starts to appear in Middle East.
15,000 BCE Type "B" blood type starts to appear in Himalayan highlands.
13,000 BCE According to some theories, large numbers of Siberian hunters cross an Ice Age land bridge to North America.
People in Iraq begin tooling leather and making it into belts and pouches (previously, dried animal stomachs were used).
southeast Asians domesticate zebu cattle.
12,000 BCE Bone-tipped harpoons appear in Newfoundland, Iberia and central equatorial Africa.
The most recent major Ice Age ends.
New grasslands spring up while many animal species become extinct.
People living along the banks of earth's rivers establish the first permanent horticultural settlements.
Human population estimated to be around four million.
11,000 BCE Atlatl-using human hunted Pleistocene horse, sloths and guanaco in the high Andes.
10,000 BCE Spear marks on the ribs of an Ohio mastodon are the earliest record of an animal butchered by North Americans.
People spread oil trees of the genus Canarium throughout west African tropical forests.
9500 BCE Metal ornaments are manufactured in Iraq and Turkey.
9000 BCE Goats and sheep are domesticated in Iran and Iraq.
Humans settle Umnak and Hog Islands in the Aleutians.
Dogs are domesticated in North America
Oats and lentils are domesticated in Europe and southwest Asia.
8000 BCE Male bodies are buried in Europe with horned helmets nearby.
Ceramic pots are used for soaking grains and legumes in the Libyan Sahara.
7500 BCE Cattle are domesticated in southeastern Europe, central Asia and northern India.
Beans are domesticated in the Americas and southeastern Asia.
7250 BCE Walled towns appear in Turkey and Jordan. It is speculated that these people were Sudanese refugees fleeing the desiccation of the Sahara.
7000 BCE Ceramic pottery appears in northern Malaya.
Gourds are used to carry water and store grains throughout south Asia, the Pacific and the Americas.
Maize is domesticated, either in Guatemala or the Peruvian Andes. Since maize does not grow wild, the domestication of maize seems to be the first known genetic modification of plants.
Chickens are domesticated in southeaster Asia (possibly for fighting).
Organized religion appears throught India, China and southwestern Asia.
6508 BCE Creation of the earth (according to the calendar used in Russia until 1699, which was established by the Russian Orthodox church)
6500 BCE Dice are manufactured in Egypt and southwestern Asia from sheep anklebones.
6000 BCE Millet is cultivated in northern China along the Yellow River valley. This is possibly the first inovation not resulting from diffusion from Africa, Mesopotamia or India.
Cherry wine is produced in Turkey and Iraq.
Tibetans domesticate cannabis sative and use it for making hemp string and cloth.
Pinewood canoes are built in Holland. Wooden boats are also shown in rock art created in Sandinavia and Russia.
Mud and straw bricks are manufactured in Anatolia.
Gelding male animals become common throughout Eurasia. In the case of cattle it made herding safer. In the case of goats and sheep, it improved wool production.
5502 BCE Creation of the earth (according to Egyptian Copts - decided in 284 CE)
5500 BCE Swollen by melting glaciers, the Mediterranean breaks through a natural earthen barrier at teh Bosporous to drown a huge freshwater lake and create the modern Black Sea.
Copper tools begin replacing stsone tools in the Balkans, Moldavia and the Ukraine.
Flax, which provides the base for both linen and linseed oil, is domesticated in eastern Iraq.
Creation of the earth (according to the Greek Orthodox Church).
5493 BCE Creation of the earth (according to the Ethiopian Copts - decided in 7 CE)
5300 BCE Religious graffiti is carved into rocks in Transylvania and the Balkans. The scripts used include Minoan Linear A and Classical Cypriot.
5199 BCE Creation of the earth (according to the Roman Catholic church)
5000 BCE Horse-like animals are domesticated in Central Asia, possibly for milk, initially, rather than transportation.
The embalmers of the Chinchoros culture of northern Chile start mummifying bodies.
Cultivation begins along the Nile. Climitic changes were forcing African farmers to move east and north in search of water.
4713 BCE Creation of the earth on January 1 (according to the Julain Calendar created by a French individual name Joseph Justus Scaligier in the sixteenth century).
3760 BCE Creation of the earth (according to the Hebrew Calendar)
3100 BCE First Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Old Kingdom)
2890 BCE First Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Old Kingdom)
2181 BCE Eighth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Old Kingdom)
2125 BCE Eighth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Old Kingdom)
2125 BCE Eleventh Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Middle Kingdom)
1991 BCE Eleventh Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Middle Kingdom)
1650 BCE Seventeenth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (Middle Kingdom)
1550 BCE Seventeenth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (Middle Kingdom)
1550 BCE Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (New Kingdom)
1479 BCE Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III reign
1479 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut III reign
1357 BCE Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut III reign
1425 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III reign
1390 BCE Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III reign
1352 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III reign
1352 BCE Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten reign
1336 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten reign
1290 BCE Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (New Kingdom)
1279 BCE Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II reign
1213 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II reign
Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Merenptah reign
1203 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Merenptah reign
1200 BCE Start of the Iron Age
1187 BCE Start of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III reign
1186 BCE Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty Begins (New Kingdom)
1156 BCE End of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III reign
1069 BCE Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty Ends (New Kingdom)
587 BCE Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon) conquers Judah and takes Hebrews captive, starting the Hebrew Babylonian Captivity.
800 BCE Homer writes The Iliad and The Odyssey
570 BCE Birth of Sidhatta Gotama (Buddha)
483 BCE Death of Sidhatta Gotama (Buddha)
469 BCE Birth of Socrates
428 BCE Birth of Plato
399 BCE Death of Socrates
Birth of Alexander the Great
347 BCE Death of Plato
343 BCE Thirtyfirst Egyptian Dynasty begins.
Start of Egyptian Pharoah Ochus (Artaxerxes II) reign.
338 BCE End of Egyptian Pharoah Ochus (Artaxerxes II) reign.
332 BCE Thirtyfirst Egyptian Dynasty ends.
323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great
322 BCE Start of Chandra Gupta Maurya I reign in India.
Start of the Maurya dynasty in India.
298 BCE End of Chandra Gupta Maurya I reign in India
43 BCE Birth of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
7 BCE Birth of Hian (Yeshua [Hebrew], Iesous [Greek]) and his twin sister Leiad to Miryam on May 29, during the first of three conjuntions between Jupiter and Saturn in Pisces. The other two conjuntions during that year were on September 29 and December 5. Although Miryam was from Nazareth, Hian and Leiad were born in Bethlehem ( story ). Mag was also born at this time to Loruhamah at Cren's temple in Magdala.
0 CE Start of the "Common Era" calendar initially associated with Christianity, but later adopted by many secular governments.
8 CE Birth of Philip to Hian and Mag.
17 CE Death of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
23 CE Start of Hian's teaching, with the support of Mag and Philip.
26 CE Death of Hian on the cross, but not until Longinus threw the Lance of Death, created by Diawl within Addewid and handed over to Longinus, into Hian's side. Mary Magdalene removed the lance and and hid it. Later, she takes the lance to Magdala and hands it over to the Cren's Prestesses in the Magdala Temple, who then took the lance to Harran, where the Priestesses in Cren's Temple (the Temple of Sin, the Moon God, father to Ishtar and Shamash [Utu]).
157 CE Birth of Cecilia
177 CE Death of Cecilia
691 CE Completion of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem by Caliph Abd al-Malik.
830 CE Caliph al-Mamoun seizes Harran, during the Arabic conquest of Syria, and forces them to declare themselves as being one of the "people of the book" (the Quran). They didn't want to give up their worship of Sin and Sin's children Ishtar and Shamash, so they took advantage of the fact that the Arabs had no idea who the "Sabians"/"Sabeans" were, as listed in the Quran (5:68-29), and called themselves "Sabians".
851 CE Birth of Ragnvold in Norway, who participated in the Viking trade routes through Russia and down to Baghdad. On one of his trips he met and married a Priestess (Havva) in Cren's Temple in Harran (ancestor to William Marshal). He briefly saw Longinus' Lance and and was told by Cren, through Havva, that one of his descendents would one day gain possession of the Lance and play a significant role in Addewid.
879 CE Ragnvold sets out to become involved with the Viking trade routes through Russia and down to Baghdad.
883 CE Ragnvold meets Havva, one of Cren's priestesses in the Temple of Sin in Harran.
900 CE Type "AB" blood type starts to appear as type "A" Caucasians start to interbreed with Type "B" Mongolians.
1095 CE Type "B" blood type starts to appear in Himalayan highlands.
1096 CE Start of the First Crusade
1097 CE Siege of Antioch, in which a copy of Longinus' Lance (the "Sacred Lance") was found under the floor of St Peter's Cathedral, as directed in Peter Bartholomew's dream. Bartholomew was the servant of a Provençal pilgrim named William Peter.
1099 CE End of the First Crusade
1106 CE Birth of John Fitzgilbert Marshal (Father of William Marshal)
1118 CE Start of the Knights Templars by Hugh of Payns and Godfrey of St. Omer.
1122 CE Birth of Eleanor Aquitaine
1133 CE Birth of Henry II of England
1135 CE Death of Henry I of England
Stephen takes the crown of England
1136 CE Start of John Marshal's time in King Stephen's English Court
1138 CE End of John Marshal's time in King Stephen's English Court
1145 CE Birth of Geraldus Cambrensis
1146 CE Start of the Second Crusade
1147 CE Birth of William Marshal
1148 CE End of the Second Crusade
1152 CE Marriage of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1154 CE Henry II becomes kind of England.
1159 CE William Marshal speaks with Cren at St. Non's well (Wales).
1161 CE William Marshal sent to Tancarville, Normandy to be trained by William de Tancarville.
1167 CE Birth of John Lackland, Beaumont Palace, Oxford.
1169 CE Death of John Marshal
1185 CE William Marshal leaves for Crusade.
While on crusade, William saves and rescues Kurat (a woman masquerading as a man by the name of Ozge) who was pressed into service as a foot soldier with the Muslim army. Kurat, a priestess in the Temple of Sin in Harran, who was the guard for the Sacred Lance, and was later transferred to Jerusalem when the Knights Templars took possession of the Sacred Lance during a special trip to Harran soon after the creation of the Knights Templars.
1187 CE William Marshal returns from Crusade.
Saladin conquers Jerusalem.
1189 CE Death of Henry II of England
Start of Third Crusade
1192 CE End of Third Crusade
1199 CE Start of John Lackland's, reign as King of England.
1202 CE Start of Fourth Crusade
1204 CE Conquest and destruction of Constantinople by Crusaders.
End of Fourth Crusade
1209 CE Start of Crusade against the Albigenses in Southern France.
1216 CE Death of John Lackland, Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire. Buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester.
1217 CE Start of Crusade against Egypt
1219 CE Death of William Marshal
Capture of Damiette inj Egypt by the Crusaders
1221 CE End of Crusade against Egypt
1223 CE Death of Geraldus Cambrensis
1228 CE Start of Fifth Crusade.
1229 CE End of Crusade against the Albigenses in Southern France.
End of Fifth Crusade.
1244 CE Final loss of Jerusalem
1248 CE Start of Sixth Crusade (King Louis the IX of France against Egypt).
1248 CE End of Sixth Crusade (King Louis the IX of France against Egypt).
1260 CE City of Harran destroyed by Mogols
1270 CE Start and End of Seventh Crusade (King Louis the IX of France).
1307 CE Philip the Fair of France issued secret orders to arrest all members of the Knights Templars order on the same day (October 13), where they were then subjected to excruciating tortures, in order to elicit false confessions of grave acts condemned by the church.
1312 CE Knights Templars are abolished by a papal (Pope Clement V) commission, under pressure from Philip the Fair of France, who wanted to seize the French assets of the Knights Templars.
1314 CE Knights Templar Grand Master Jaques de Molay and other members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake on an island in the Seine river.
1580 CE Birth of Nkiru
1650 CE Death of Nkiru
1951 CE Birth of Qwinn Jacobs
1960 CE Birth of Ngakwoi
1972 CE Birth of David Maple-Green at 2:12AM on December 22, 1972 to Cynthia Green.
1997 CE Death of Qwinn Jacobs
1999 CE The crucifixions of the Blessed Three 2:32AM on December 22, the Winter Solstice.
David Maple-Green starts writing his Addewid Diary.




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