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12th Grade
09/24/2013
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4.56 billion years before present.
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Earth forms.
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4.4billion years before present.
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Oldest mineral grain found.
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4.1 billion years ago.
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Oldest piece of rock ever found. Ever.
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3.9 billion years ago.
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Oldest evidence of a continent. Ever.
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3.8 billion years ago
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First evidence of life. Ever.
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3.5 billion years ago.
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First fossils (algea & bacteria)
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1.8 billion years ago.
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Free O2 in atmosphere
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1.1 billion years ago.
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First fossil of a complex organism. (worm)
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540 million years ago
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First abundant life found in the rock record.
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460 million years ago
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First fish.
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440 million years ago
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First land plants
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410 million years ago
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First land animals
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250 million years ago
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largest mass extinction
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247 million years ago
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First dinosaurs
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240 million years ago
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First mammals
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220 million years ago
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Break up of super continent Pangea begins
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145 million years ago
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First flowering plants
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65 million years ago
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Dinosaurs and other animals go extinct
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30 million years ago
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Mammals/Flowering Plants become abundant
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5 million years ago
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Begining of Cascade
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1.8 million years ago
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First primate in genus homo
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40,000 years ago
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First homo sapiens
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13,000 years ago
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Humans first inhabit North America
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10,000 years ago
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End of last ice age
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8,000 years ago
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Founding of Jericho, the first known city
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2,000 years ago
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Roman domination of the world
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500 years ago
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European rediscovery of the Americas
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~34 years ago
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Humans first explore the Moon
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