Human history timeline — hunting → agriculture → industry → digital → AI · population

HUMAN HISTORY TIMELINE SIMULATION

▸ Building the history axis: ~300,000 years ago → now…

▸ Calibrating the LOG-age scale (spreading out recent stages)

▸ Loading 10 periods: Hunting → Agriculture → … → AI

▸ Linking the world population curve (hockey stick → ~8 billion)

▸ Marking inventions: fire · writing · steam · the Internet…

▸ Ready — Online. ✅

History clock

🏛️ Humanity

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Humanity is ~300,000 years old, but ~99% of that time was hunting–gathering. Only after the Agricultural Revolution (~12,000 years) came villages, writing, empires; then Industry & modern medicine bent the population curve steeply upward — ~8 billion people today.

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Drag the scrub bar below the scene (or ▶/⏸) to travel through ~300,000 years · click a "Scenario" to jump to a period · click a period / concept for details

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World population over time — the "hockey stick" (log scale) Population (log, 5 thousand → ~8 billion)