1732: Earth Temperature Timeline - Revision history

FaviFake at 17:07, 5 March 2025

2025-03-05T17:07:09Z

FaviFake: removed Category:Popular Comics using HotCat

2024-11-02T10:56:17Z

removed Category:Popular Comics using HotCat

Maplestrip: /* Table of all elements */ Yes I just really like pre-Colombian American history.

2024-05-15T11:33:11Z

‎Table of all elements: Yes I just really like pre-Colombian American history.

Maplestrip: Slight shift in perspective on Attila the Hun, or at least added context. Or at least a slight move away from the stereotyping? I like history.

2024-05-15T11:25:50Z

Slight shift in perspective on Attila the Hun, or at least added context. Or at least a slight move away from the stereotyping? I like history.

Maplestrip: /* Table of all elements */ Present this less as a spooky mystery and more as an open question. "We don't know who built it" makes it sounds like aliens did it, haha

2024-05-15T11:18:42Z

‎Table of all elements: Present this less as a spooky mystery and more as an open question. "We don't know who built it" makes it sounds like aliens did it, haha

Maplestrip: /* Table of all elements */ Clay tablets rather than stone. Stone is a butch to work with, haha

2024-05-15T11:14:26Z

‎Table of all elements: Clay tablets rather than stone. Stone is a butch to work with, haha

Maplestrip: /* Table of all elements */ More details on Maya hieroglyphics

2024-05-15T11:10:56Z

‎Table of all elements: More details on Maya hieroglyphics

Maplestrip: /* Table of all elements */ I still can't spell "geoglyph"

2024-05-15T10:10:17Z

‎Table of all elements: I still can't spell "geoglyph"

Maplestrip: /* Table of all elements */ Removing silly aliens conspiracy theory in favor of cool history.

2024-05-15T10:09:47Z

‎Table of all elements: Removing silly aliens conspiracy theory in favor of cool history.

172.70.162.20: /* Table of all elements */ Not so much a link, as a marker.

2024-04-26T14:34:37Z

‎Table of all elements: Not so much a link, as a marker.

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 | {{w|Zheng He}}’s fleet explores Asia and Africa || 1400 CE || -0.3 || He explored farther than European contemporaries like Dias or de Gama.
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-| {{w|Aztec Empire|Aztec Alliance}} || 1400 CE || -0.3 || Aztec dominance only lasted a century until Cortes arrived, but their cultural legacy is indisputable.
+| {{w|Aztec Empire|Aztec Alliance}} || 1400 CE || -0.3 || The 1428 "Triple Alliance" between three city states formed the Aztec Empire. Aztec dominance lasted a century until the Spanish invasion, but their cultural legacy is indisputable. The Inca Empire in South America formed around the same time.
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 | {{w|Printing press}} || 1450 CE || -0.3 || {{w|Johannes Gutenburg}} ushered in the {{w|Age of Enlightenment}}.

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 | Various groups take turns sacking {{w|Rome}} || 550 CE || -0.1 || 500 years is a pretty successful span for an empire.
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-| {{w|Attila the Hun}} || 550 CE || -0.1 || He probably would not mind being remembered as one of the most infamous barbarians in history.
+| {{w|Attila the Hun}} || 550 CE || -0.1 || Leader of the Hunnic Empire invading western Europe, he probably would not mind being remembered as one of the most infamous barbarians in history.
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 | rowspan="4"| 500 <small>CE</small>

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 | {{w|Asterix}} || 100 BCE || 0.0 || Fictional main character in ''The Adventures of Asterix'', a comic series set around 50 BCE when {{w|Julius Caesar}} conquered {{w|Gaul}}.
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-| {{w| Teotihuacan|Teotihuacán}} metropolis || 100 BCE || 0.0 || Another ancient city much beloved by archaeologists, even though they don't know who built it.
+| {{w|Teotihuacán}} metropolis || 100 BCE || 0.0 || Another ancient city much beloved by archaeologists, one of the largest cities of its time. Though there are many open questions around the culture and society that built and lived in it, Teotihuacán influence was felt throughout Mesoamerica.
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 | {{w|Julius Caesar}} || 50 BCE || 0.0 || Aside from being a conqueror, dictator, and deity, Julius had a big impact on {{w|Julian Calendar|calendars}}. The month of Quintilis was renamed July to honor him, and he was famously assassinated on the ides (middle day) of March.

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 | {{w|Ashoka the Great}} || 250 BCE || 0.0 || The {{w|Edicts of Ashoka}} proselytized Buddhism across the continent.
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-| {{w|Paper}} invented || 200 BCE || 0.0 || A significant step up from stone tablets or even papyrus.
+| {{w|Paper}} invented || 200 BCE || 0.0 || A significant step up from clay tablets or even papyrus.
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 | {{w|Asterix}} || 100 BCE || 0.0 || Fictional main character in ''The Adventures of Asterix'', a comic series set around 50 BCE when {{w|Julius Caesar}} conquered {{w|Gaul}}.

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 | {{w|Alexander the Great}} || 350 BCE || 0.0 || One of the most successful conquerors of the iron age, known for supposedly cutting the {{w|Gordian Knot}}.
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-| {{w|Mayan hieroglyphics}} || 250 BCE || 0.0 || The {{w|Maya Calendar}} was probably created hundreds of years later.
+| {{w|Mayan hieroglyphics}} || 250 BCE || 0.0 || Maya writing was produced independently from that in Afroeurasia. The {{w|Maya calendar}} was probably developed hundreds of years later. Legibility of Mayan hieroglyphics was almost completely lost following the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, as {{w|Diego de Landa|a large number of Maya texts were burned}}.
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 | {{w|Ashoka the Great}} || 250 BCE || 0.0 || The {{w|Edicts of Ashoka}} proselytized Buddhism across the continent.

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 | {{w|Buddha}} || 450 BCE || 0.0 || Randall also mentions other religious figures like {{w|Jesus}} and {{w|Muhammad}}.
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-| {{w|Nazca Lines}} || 350 BCE || 0.0 || Huge geoglyths, dozens of drawings up to 370 meters long. The Nazca people of modern-day Peru drew these in the windless stable desert between 500 BCE and 500 CE.
+| {{w|Nazca Lines}} || 350 BCE || 0.0 || Huge geoglyphs, dozens of drawings up to 370 meters long. The Nazca people of modern-day Peru drew these in the windless stable desert between 500 BCE and 500 CE.
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 | {{w|Alexander the Great}} || 350 BCE || 0.0 || One of the most successful conquerors of the iron age, known for supposedly cutting the {{w|Gordian Knot}}.

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 | rowspan="2"| 13500 <small>BCE</small>
-| Humans domesticate dogs <br> (Date uncertain, may be much earlier) || 13400 BCE || -3.0 || See {{w|Origin of the domestic dog}}. This timeline event is not quite accurate. The first dogs differentiated from {{w|Gray wolf|wolves}} about {{w|Origin_of_the_domestic_dog#Time_of_domestication|23,500 years ago}}, but there was an event around 13500 BCE that increased the population size and may be attributable to domestication events. The early population migrating into the Americas brought domesticated dogs with them.
+| Humans domesticate dogs <br> (Date uncertain, may be much earlier) || 13400 BCE || -3.0 || See {{w|Origin of the domestic dog}}. This timeline event is not quite accurate. The first dogs differentiated from {{w|Gray wolf|wolves}} about {{w|Origin_of_the_domestic_dog#Time_of_domestication|23,500 years ago}}, but there was an event around 13500 BCE that increased the population size and may be attributable to domestication events. The early population migrating into the Americas brought domesticated dogs with them, so it must have occured beforehand within the precursor cultural populations.
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 || [Megan and Cueball is watching a wolf looking at them.]<br>Megan: Okay, you can live in our homes and we’ll feed you, but we’ll still get mad if you poop on the floor. <br> Wolf: Deal. <br> Cueball: And we get to breed you to be tiny and dress you in little costumes. <br>Wolf: …Wait. || 13100 BCE || -2.8 || Megan is making a deal with the wolf that it can eat and sleep with the humans as long as they can yell at it for pooping indoor. This sounds like a sweet deal for the wolf until Cueball mentions that they will {{w|Dog breeding|breed}} it to be {{w|Chihuahua (dog)|very small}} and then dress it up in small {{w|Dog's fashion|costumes}}. The wolf says wait, but it is already too late...