MCC-UE 3 Study Guide - Wireless Telegraphy, Eniac, 3D Film

• School: New York University
• Department: Media, Culture & Communication
• Course: MCC-UE 3
• Professor: James P.Stanley

Document Summary

1. 5 million-500,000 years ago: homo habilis inhabit the earth. 40,000-10,000 years ago: upper paleolithic age- industrial revolution in tools and toolmaking and an information revolution in improving these tools. 30,000 years: neanderthals become extinct, homo sapiens become last hominids alive. 10,000 years ago: end of the last great ice age- ice receded and humans migrated to river valleys and began permanent settlements. 50,000-40,000 years ago: humans begin to paint and inscribe things. 30,000 years ago: homo sapiens become the most dominant and only humans in. 11,000- 9000 years ago: nomadic people settle down by the tigris and euphrates rivers in mesopotamia, the nile river in egypt, the indus river in india-pakistan, and the yellow river in china. 10,000 years ago: end of last great ice age. 3100 bce: civilization in mesopotamia and the nile valley. 3100 bce: first fully developed writing system signals the beginning of writing in. 3000 bce: further writing systems- hieroglyphs in egypt.