🧬 Life
🫂 According to Smithsonian Zoology book the oldest continuous culture in human history dates back to first human migrants that reached Australian continent more than 50,000 YA.
🌋Toba Volcanic Super Eruption around 75,000 YA
🌋Kikai-Akahoya eruption of an underwater volcano off the coast of Japan 73,000 YA
🫂 Cro-Magnons lived alongside Neanderthals around 45,000 YA.
🐾 Wolves domesticated as hunter gatherer dogs potentially 45,000 YA
🌾 Farming developed in Middle East (Syria and Iran) and spread to Fertile Crescent (Egypt) 11,000-9,000 YA (BCE).
🌾Domesticated cows and pigs by 8,500 BCE.
🌾Domesticated sheep and goats by 7,000 BCE.
🌾Mesopotamia (Iraq) developed levees and channeled floodwater onto crops for irrigation by 5,500 BCE.
🌾Rice farming originated in India by 5,000 BCE.