The Historical Age runs from 5,000 to 300 years ago. Well, alright lets deal with some better dates, the Historical Age runs from 2,988 BCE (Before Common Era) to 1712 CE (Common Era).
Details to come...but for ease this period is then divided up into even smaller bite sized chunks...some information is taken from Wikipedia with other sources relevant to the two villages taken when and where with references.
2,988 BCE The Sumerians establish cities around this time whilst the Egyptians play with heiroglyphs and the Chinese start turning their potter's wheels as do the Mesoamericans, but please note they did not all start on this date.
2,900 BCE - In 2,900 BCE, the Sumerian pictograms started their 500 year evolution into phonograms; 2,880 BCE was the estimated germination of, one of the earth's oldest trees, the Prometheus Tree (a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine - Pinus longaeva) that is found in eastern Nevada in the USA - the tree was thought to be 4,862 years old before it was felled in 1964; another Great Basin Bristlecone Pine's germination was estimated to be in 2,832, it was named the Methuselah Tree, and it is thought to be 4,844 years old. 2,807 BCE is the suggested date for an asteroid or comet that fell between Africa and Antarctica that may have led to flood mythologies in 266 cultures.
2,800 BCE - In 2,773 BCE, the Egyptian 365 day calendar was introduced to Egypt; 2750 BCE, the work on Silbury Hill, an artificial chalk hill in Wiltshire, was begun; and according to legend, tea was invented by Shennong in 2737 BCE, he was the Divine Farmer or the Emperor of the Five Grains - this ruler supposedly taught the Chinese how to use the plough, the concepts of slash and burn agriculture and other aspects of agriculture.
2,700 BCE - By this time, Egypt was in the middle of its second dynasty (2775 BCE - 2650 BCE) and by around 2640 BCE, there was the cultivation and weaving of a material from a larva's cocoon in China. The larva turns into a Mulberry silkworm (Bombys mori). The silk refracts light in a unique way due to the triangular prism structure of the silk fibre. It is thought that the Mesoamericans had started to cultivate and domesticate corn (Zea mays) also known as maize
2,600 BCE - Wild horses were eaten in feasts in Denmark, whilst it is thought that the Bactrian (two humps) and Dromedary (one hump) camels were domesticated before 2500 BCE. With respect to the civilisations and their growth, it is thought that cities started to become more established in Afghanistan, northern India, the Indus Valley, Iran and Pakistan and rivaled the urbanised areas of Egypt and Mesopotamia
2,500 BCE - It is thought that construction of the Stonehenge started and continued for a few hundred years.
2,400 BCE - There are records from 2422 BCE, on the walls of the sun temple at Nyuserre in Egypt, that bees were specifically kept for their honey - the walls show workers blowing smoke into hives. It is also thought that this century was the time for the first organisation of courier based messages and messengers by the Egyptians.
2,300 BCE - 2300 BCE is the registered date for the beginning of the Bronze Age, although the Bronze Age in Great Britain was between 2100 - 750 BCE (and will be examined later). The comet Hale-Bopp (last seen by us in May 1996 - December 1997) appeared in the night skies during 2215 BCE
2,200 BCE - There was an aridification (severe lack of water that prevented the growth of animal and plant life) event that lasted most of this century that spread through the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East, North Africa, mid-continental North America and the Red Sea is thought to have led to the collapse and change of many civilisations. This event conjoined with the growth of glaciers growing in western Canada and a cooling event in the North Atlantic, this global change affected the output growth of rice paddies. It led to a change in the Arabian Peninsula, China, Egypt and Mesopotamia. It is thought that the date of the Biblical flood (according to Hebrew calendars) was between 2104 - 2103 BCE; this may relate to the catastrophic events in the century
2,100 BCE - The Bronze Age in Great Britain starts with the influx of new migrants from Switzerland (according to teeth identification from bodies buried around Stonehenge). The climate had started to deteriorate from its warm and dry conditions to more becoming wetter - this was actually an advantage for the country as it forced people to move from isolated hill top forts to the more fertile valleys. This led to larger farms with domesticated animals and may have led to the forest clearances.
2,000 BCE - The trees for Seahenge, a prehistoric monument located near Hunstanton, were felled in around 2049 BCE
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