Regional chronology

Connected World Processes

A cross-regional chronology of human evolution, movement, belief, exchange, conflict, environmental change and living communities from deep time through 2026.

58 dated records108 evidence guides13 atlas stages

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c. 7-4 million years ago · Evolution

Earliest known hominin branches in Africa

Fragmentary fossils document several possible early hominin branches after the last common ancestor shared with chimpanzees, but neither a single birthplace nor a straight lineage is established.

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c. 4.2-2.8 million years ago · Evolution

Bipedalism evolved as a mosaic of traits

Australopithecine fossils show habitual upright walking alongside climbing adaptations, demonstrating that human evolution combined traits at different rates.

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c. 3.5-2.6 million years ago · Community

Social learning before written history

Repeated survival strategies and early technologies imply learning within groups, although archaeology cannot recover their names, kinship rules or spoken communication.

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c. 3.3-3.0 million years ago · Technology

Earliest known stone-tool production

Deliberately struck stone artifacts push known toolmaking before the earliest securely identified Homo fossils and complicate any one-species technology story.

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c. 2.6 million-300,000 years ago · Technology

Oldowan and Acheulean tool traditions

Flake-and-core industries and later handaxe traditions persisted across immense spans of time and space, with local variation rather than one unchanging global culture.

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c. 1.9 million-700,000 years ago · Migration

Early Homo dispersed beyond Africa

Fossils and artifacts at Dmanisi and later Eurasian sites show repeated expansions beyond Africa; arrows on a map simplify movements that occurred over many generations.

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c. 790,000-300,000 years ago · Community

Fire changed food, protection and social space

Repeated burned deposits at some sites support controlled fire, while dates and frequency differ sharply across regions.

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c. 700,000-300,000 years ago · Evolution

Multiple human lineages coexisted

Fossils and later genetic evidence reveal branching populations rather than a ladder of inevitable replacement.

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c. 300,000-150,000 years ago · Evolution

Homo sapiens emerged within connected African populations

Fossils and archaeology support a long, structured African origin for Homo sapiens rather than a single sudden event at one site.

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c. 100,000-40,000 years ago · Language

Material signs of symbolic communication

Engraved ochre, beads, pigments and planned technologies indicate shared meanings, although no spoken words or grammar survive.

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c. 70,000-40,000 years ago · Migration

Dispersal across southern Asia to Sahul

Homo sapiens reached regions that required sea crossings, while the dates, routes and number of movements remain under study.

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c. 26,500-12,000 years ago · Migration

Late Ice Age climate and continental settlement

The Last Glacial Maximum and later warming reorganized coasts, habitats and routes; these were long climate transitions with uneven regional effects, not one sudden worldwide disaster.

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c. 10,500-3500 BCE · Technology

Food production developed in multiple regions

Plant management, cultivation and domestication developed through distinct processes in West Asia, China, New Guinea, parts of Africa and the Americas rather than spreading from one universal center; dates depend on which evidence and definition is used.

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c. 9600-8200 BCE · Construction

Monumental gathering before cities

At Gobekli Tepe, communities quarried, carved and erected large stone pillars, showing that coordinated monumental work preceded urban states.

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c. 9000-4000 BCE · Community

Village life reshaped health, labor and inequality

Longer residence, stored food and animal proximity could support population growth while changing disease exposure and workloads; farming did not automatically produce the same hierarchy or inequality in every community.

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c. 7000-3500 BCE · Migration

Farming spread through movement and adoption

Agriculture spread through mixtures of population movement, intermarriage, exchange and local adoption; language-family expansions may overlap but cannot be equated automatically with genes or pottery.

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c. 3500-2000 BCE · Civilization

Urbanization created new forms of interdependence

Large settlements in Mesopotamia and other regions concentrated administration, craft production, ritual and exchange without following one universal urban blueprint.

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c. 3400-500 BCE for early independent traditions · Language

Writing systems emerged independently

Writing developed independently in several regions and expanded from accounting or display into law, literature, ritual and correspondence.

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c. 3100-1200 BCE · Dynasty

Dynastic states joined households to central rule

Hereditary courts in Egypt and other early states organized taxation, labor and sacred kingship, but succession was often contested and local institutions retained power.

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c. 3000-1200 BCE · Trade

Bronze Age exchange linked distant economies

Metals, stones, textiles, foods, technologies and ideas moved through overlapping land and sea networks connecting cities without forming a single integrated market.

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c. 2000 BCE-1500 CE as a broad, regionally varied process · Migration

Bantu-language expansions reshaped African regions

Bantu languages spread through many movements and local adoptions across central, eastern and southern Africa; linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence indicates migration and admixture rather than one route or homogeneous people.

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c. 1200-500 BCE · Technology

Iron metallurgy spread through regional networks

Ironworking expanded through many centers in Afro-Eurasia, adapting ore, fuel and furnace knowledge locally rather than diffusing as one sudden invention.

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c. 1050-500 BCE · Language

Alphabetic scripts widened writing networks

Consonantal alphabets used in the Levant traveled through commerce and state contact, contributing to Greek and later script families without replacing older writing systems.

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911-609 BCE · Empire

Neo-Assyrian imperial administration and coercion

The Neo-Assyrian state connected provinces through roads, tribute, governors, military campaigns and forced resettlement, leaving both administrative and royal propaganda records.

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c. 550-330 BCE · Construction

Imperial roads joined diverse provinces

Achaemenid rulers coordinated roads, couriers, provincial administration and tribute across a multilingual empire while relying on existing local institutions.

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500 BCE-500 CE · Religion

Religious communities crossed political borders

Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, Greek, Roman and many local traditions developed through teachers, texts, pilgrimage, diaspora and patronage without becoming one shared system.

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322 BCE-220 CE · Dynasty

Maurya and Han dynastic governance

The Maurya and Han states developed large bureaucratic systems independently, linking taxation, armies, roads and courts while facing regional negotiation and succession crises.

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reigned c. 268-232 BCE · Person

Ashoka and public statements of rule

Ashoka's inscriptions promoted dhamma, welfare and restraint after conquest while still speaking from the position of imperial power.

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c. 200 BCE-1000 CE · Technology

Paper transformed the movement of knowledge

Paper is first documented in China in the second century BCE; its manufacture later spread through Central, South and West Asia, reaching the Islamic world by the late eighth century while literacy still depended on institutions and access.

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500-1000 CE · Trade

Exchange corridors connected regional economies

Monsoon shipping, caravan routes and river systems linked East Africa, West Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, China and the Mediterranean through overlapping seasonal networks.

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610-1000 CE · Religion

Islamic religious and intellectual worlds

Islam began in seventh-century Arabia and developed through communities, states, scholarship and trade across a vast multilingual world; scripture and tradition describe faith claims while material and documentary evidence illuminate historical settings.

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c. 750-1000 CE · Disaster

Climate stress and Classic Maya political change

Severe drought episodes interacted with warfare, political fragmentation and local environmental pressures as many southern lowland courts declined; Maya peoples and communities continued.

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1000-1500 CE · Trade

Monsoon trade sustained oceanic cities

Seasonal winds connected African, Arabian, Persian, South Asian and Southeast Asian ports through commerce, migration and religious exchange.

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c. 1000-1400 CE · Migration

Polynesian wayfinding settled a vast ocean

Voyagers founded and maintained communities across eastern Polynesia using sophisticated navigation, transport and ecological knowledge.

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1206-1368 CE · Empire

Mongol Empire joined and disrupted Eurasia

Mongol conquests created the largest contiguous land empire, enabling protected routes and diplomatic exchange while causing warfare, destruction and forced movement.

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c. 1235-1500 CE · Kingdom

Mali and trans-Saharan exchange

Mali's rulers governed parts of the western Sahel and drew revenue from agriculture, gold regions and caravan trade, while authority remained negotiated across many communities.

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1338-1353 CE for the origin evidence and main westward pandemic wave · Disaster

The Black Death moved through connected worlds

Ancient DNA links the main fourteenth-century plague wave to Yersinia pestis near the Tian Shan by 1338; the pandemic then spread through interconnected regions, with mortality varying by place.

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1500-1800 CE · Empire

Gunpowder and maritime empires expanded

Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, European maritime and other states combined firearms, taxation, fortification and diplomacy in distinct imperial systems; gunpowder mattered, but did not alone determine state formation or colonial conquest.

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1500-1800 CE · Trade

The Columbian Exchange transformed ecologies

Plants, animals, pathogens and people moved between hemispheres after sustained Atlantic contact, producing new foods and economies alongside catastrophic Indigenous mortality and dispossession.

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1501-1867 CE for voyages documented in the SlaveVoyages database · Migration

The transatlantic slave trade forced mass migration

European and American slaving systems forcibly transported millions of African people, building plantation and mining economies through racialized violence.

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1517-1800 CE · Religion

Print and reform reshaped religious authority

Protestant reformations, Catholic renewal and confessional conflicts transformed European institutions while print also supported scholarship and religious debate across other regions.

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c. 1760-1945 CE · Technology

Industrialization concentrated machines and fossil energy

Steam power, mechanized factories, fossil fuels and electrical systems increased production and transport while creating hazardous labor, urban pollution and long-term greenhouse emissions.

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1800-1945 CE · Empire

Industrial empires reorganized land and labor

European and other empires used military power, law, railways, extraction and racial hierarchies to redirect economies; after slavery was abolished in many jurisdictions, indenture and other coercive labor regimes moved workers across imperial territories.

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1815-1818 CE · Disaster

Tambora produced global climate shocks

The 1815 Tambora eruption devastated nearby communities and injected material into the atmosphere, contributing to cooling, crop failures and food crises in distant regions.

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1914-1920 CE · War

World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic

Industrialized warfare mobilized empires and colonies worldwide; during and after it, influenza spread through interconnected populations and caused enormous additional mortality.

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1939-1945 CE · War

World War II, genocide and mass displacement

World War II joined campaigns across Europe, Africa, Asia and the oceans with occupation, strategic bombing, genocide, forced labor and population displacement.

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1945-2000 CE · Person

Decolonization was built by mass movements and leaders

Organizers, workers, veterans, women, students, intellectuals and political leaders challenged colonial rule through strikes, elections, diplomacy, civil resistance and armed struggle.

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1945-2000 CE · Technology

Nuclear systems and spaceflight changed planetary power

Nuclear weapons created existential risk while rockets, satellites and human spaceflight expanded scientific observation, communication and state competition.

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1947-1991 CE · War

Cold War rivalry became global conflict

U.S.-Soviet rivalry combined nuclear deterrence, alliances, intelligence and propaganda with devastating wars and interventions across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

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1947-c. 1951 CE for mass displacement and early resettlement · Migration

Partition of British India displaced millions

The 1947 partition of British India triggered one of the twentieth century's largest forced migrations: more than 15 million people crossed new borders amid mass violence, while totals and administrative categories remain disputed.

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1948-2000 CE · Community

Human rights language met civil rights action

The non-binding Universal Declaration of Human Rights articulated an international framework while U.S. civil-rights, anti-apartheid and other movements pressed institutions to convert rights claims into law and practice.

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c. 1950-1980 CE · Technology

The Green Revolution raised yields unevenly

High-yield crop varieties, irrigation, fertilizer and agricultural research increased cereal production in many regions while benefits, costs and environmental effects were distributed unequally.

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1981-2026 CE for the recognized HIV/AIDS epidemic; 2019-2026 CE for COVID-19 emergence, pandemic response and continuing surveillance · Disaster

HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 reshaped global public health

The continuing HIV pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed health inequalities while research, community activism, vaccination and treatment saved lives.

Visual reconstruction: AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-UNAIDSCIT-GLOBAL-WHO-COVID Card summary and chronology · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

1989-2026 CE · Technology

The Web became global civic and economic infrastructure

After the Web's 1989 invention and open release, broadband, mobile devices, platforms and cloud systems made digital networks central to communication, work and politics, while access and power remained unequal.

Visual reconstruction: AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-CERN-WEBCIT-GLOBAL-ITU-CONNECTIVITY Card summary and chronology · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

2000-2026 CE · Civilization

Cities, towns and rural systems form an urbanizing world

Urban populations and city regions expanded through migration and natural increase, while food, water, labor and remittances kept urban and rural lives interdependent.

Visual reconstruction: AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-UN-URBANIZATIONCIT-GLOBAL-WORLD-BANK-URBANIZATION Card summary and chronology · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

AI-generated evidence-guided visualization of I-Kiribati residents planning adaptation beside raised homes and mangrove plantings, 2000-2026 CE.

2000-2026 CE · Disaster

Climate change compounds displacement and risk

Human-caused warming increases many heat, flood, drought, wildfire and sea-level risks, often compounding conflict and inequality rather than acting as a single cause of migration.

Visual reconstruction: AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and contemporary context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-IPCC-AR6CIT-GLOBAL-IPCC-CLIMATE-MIGRATIONCIT-GLOBAL-UNHCR-TRENDS-2026 Card summary and chronology · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

2000-2026 CE · Trade

Globalization created dense and fragile supply chains

Container shipping, multinational production, finance and digital coordination connected consumers and workers while exposing unequal labor conditions and vulnerability to conflict, pandemics and climate shocks.

Visual reconstruction: AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and period context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-UNCTAD-TRADE-2026CIT-GLOBAL-ILO-SUPPLY-CHAINS-2026 Card summary and chronology · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

AI-generated evidence-guided visualization of a contemporary Diné language-recording session with elders, youth and community archivists, 2000-2026 CE.

2000-2026 CE · Community

Living communities renew languages, faiths and heritage

Indigenous nations, minority-language communities, diasporas and religious groups sustain and transform identity through education, ceremony, media, legal action and intercultural dialogue.

Visual reconstruction: AI-generated visualization based on the cited record and contemporary context. It is not documentary evidence or an authenticated reconstruction of a single event.

Agent citation CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-LANGUAGESCIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-INDIGENOUS-LANGUAGESCIT-GLOBAL-UN-INDIGENOUS-RIGHTSCIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-DIALOGUE+1 in register Card summary and chronology · 5 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Sources represented in this pack

Each registered source ID is paired with its institutional URL for independent checking. Registration confirms the recorded target, not every historical claim.

CIT-GLOBAL-SMITHSONIAN-HUMAN-ORIGINS

Human Origins Program: evidence of human evolution

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-OLDUVAI

Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Olduvai Gorge evidence

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/39

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-MODERN-BEHAVIOUR

The Emergence of Modern Human Behaviour: South African Pleistocene occupation sites

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1723

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-NPS-BERINGIA

Beringia: History and Culture

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/beringia/history.htm

U.S. National Park Service

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-GOBEKLI

Göbekli Tepe

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1572/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-MEHRGARH

Archaeological Site of Mehrgarh

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1876

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-LIANGZHU

Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1592/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-NMAI-SOUTHWEST

Southwest: Infinity of Nations

https://americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/infinityofnations/southwest.html

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-FIRST-CITIES

Art of the First Cities

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2003/art-of-the-first-cities

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-MOHENJO

Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/138

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-BRITISH-MIDDLE-EAST

Department of the Middle East

https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/middle-east

The British Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-GLOTTOLOG

Glottolog language-family catalogue

https://glottolog.org/

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-ASSYRIA

Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age

https://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/Assyria_to_Iberia_Art_and_Culture_in_the_Iron_Age.pdf

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-ACHAEMENID

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 B.C.)

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-achaemenid-persian-empire-550-330-b-c

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-MAURYA

Mauryan Empire (ca. 323-185 B.C.)

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/mauryan-empire-ca-323-185-b-c

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-QIN-HAN

Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties

https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/age-of-empires-2016-exhibitions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-SANCHI

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/524/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-ISRAEL-EARLY-CHRISTIANITY

The Cradle of Christianity

https://www.imj.org.il/en/exhibitions/cradle-christianity

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

CIT-GLOBAL-BRITISH-SILK-ROADS

Silk Roads large print guide

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/silk-roads/silk-roads-large-print-guide

The British Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-KILWA

Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/144

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-WESTERN-SUDAN

The Empires of the Western Sudan

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-empires-of-the-western-sudan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-SLAVE-VOYAGES

SlaveVoyages research databases

https://www.slavevoyages.org/

Rice University, Emory University and contributing academic institutions

CIT-GLOBAL-LOC-1492

1492: An Ongoing Voyage

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/index.html

Library of Congress

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-REFORMATION

The Reformation

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-reformation

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-SCIENCE-MUSEUM-ENGINES

Mapping Manchester's Engines

https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/mapping-manchesters-engines

Science and Industry Museum, Science Museum Group

CIT-GLOBAL-SMITHSONIAN-TAMBORA

Tambora Volcano Profile and Eruptive History

https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=264040

Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program

CIT-GLOBAL-IWM-WWI

How the World Went to War in 1914

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-world-went-to-war-in-1914

Imperial War Museums

CIT-GLOBAL-USHMM-HOLOCAUST

Introduction to the Holocaust

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-IWM-WWII

How the Legacy of the Second World War Shaped the Modern World

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-legacy-of-the-second-world-war-shaped-the-modern-world

Imperial War Museums

CIT-GLOBAL-UN-DECOLONIZATION

The United Nations and Decolonization

https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/about

United Nations

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-MANDELA

Human Rights, Liberation and Reconciliation: Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1676

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-PARTITION

Partition of British India

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/partition-of-british-india/

The National Archives, United Kingdom

CIT-GLOBAL-CERN-WEB

Where the Web was born

https://home.cern/science/computing/the-birth-of-the-web/where-web-was-born/

CERN

CIT-GLOBAL-ITU-CONNECTIVITY

ICT Statistics and Facts and Figures

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx

International Telecommunication Union

CIT-GLOBAL-IPCC-AR6

AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

CIT-GLOBAL-WHO-COVID

WHO COVID-19 dashboard and interpretation notes

https://data.who.int/dashboards/covid19/

World Health Organization

CIT-GLOBAL-UNAIDS

Global HIV and AIDS statistics fact sheet

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

UNAIDS

CIT-GLOBAL-UN-URBANIZATION

World Urbanization Prospects 2025

https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/world-urbanization-prospects-2025-0

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-LANGUAGES

Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/new-updates-available-interactive-atlas-worlds-languages-danger

UNESCO

CIT-GLOBAL-UN-INDIGENOUS-RIGHTS

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/ga_61-295/ga_61-295.html

United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-KAIROUAN

Kairouan

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/499/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-ANCIENT-AMERICAS

Arts of the Ancient Americas

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/arts-of-the-ancient-americas/inside-the-exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-TAPUTAPUATEA

Taputapuātea

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1529/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-WHO-PLAGUE

Plague fact sheet

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/plague

World Health Organization

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-OTTOMAN

The Greater Ottoman Empire, 1600-1800

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-greater-ottoman-empire-1600-1800

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-CDC-1918-INFLUENZA

1918 Pandemic Influenza

https://archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CIT-GLOBAL-IWM-COLD-WAR

NATO and the Cold War

https://www.iwm.org.uk/learning/resources/nato-and-the-cold-war

Imperial War Museums

CIT-GLOBAL-FAO-GREEN-REVOLUTION

The Green Revolution: An Unfinished Agenda

https://www.fao.org/4/j3205e/j3205e00.htm

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

CIT-GLOBAL-NASA-SPACEFLIGHT

Yuri Gagarin: First Human in Space

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/yuri-gagarin-first-human-in-space/

NASA

CIT-GLOBAL-UN-UDHR

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/

United Nations

CIT-GLOBAL-UNCTAD-TRADE-2026

Ten trends shaping global trade in 2026

https://unctad.org/news/10-trends-shaping-global-trade-2026

UN Trade and Development

CIT-GLOBAL-UNHCR-TRENDS-2026

Global Trends 2025

https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-DIALOGUE

Intercultural Dialogue Programme

https://www.unesco.org/en/interculturaldialogue/about

UNESCO

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-MADJEDBEBE

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22968

Nature

CIT-GLOBAL-SMITHSONIAN-AGRICULTURAL-ORIGINS

A model of agricultural origins

https://repository.si.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/35e053b8-578d-4fc7-84c7-e8fa9fca653c/content

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-BANTU-EXPANSION

The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06770-6

Nature

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-UMAYYAD

The Art of the Umayyad Period (661-750)

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-art-of-the-umayyad-period-661-750

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-USGS-MAYA-DROUGHT

Drought and water management in ancient Maya society

https://www.usgs.gov/publications/drought-and-water-management-ancient-maya-society

U.S. Geological Survey Publications Warehouse

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-MONGOL-LEGACY

The Legacy of Genghis Khan

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-legacy-of-genghis-khan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-BLACK-DEATH-ORIGIN

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04800-3

Nature

CIT-GLOBAL-USHMM-ARMENIAN-GENOCIDE

The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-armenian-genocide-1915-16-in-depth

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-LOMEKWI

3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14464

Nature

CIT-GLOBAL-SMITHSONIAN-FIRE

Fire-Altered Stone Tools

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/hearths-shelters/fire-altered-stone-tools

Smithsonian Human Origins Program

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-KUK

Kuk Early Agricultural Site

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/887/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-NEOLITHIC-EUROPE

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25778

Nature

CIT-GLOBAL-ANTIQUITY-FARMING-INEQUALITY

The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from ancient western Eurasia

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/farminginequality-nexus-new-insights-from-ancient-western-eurasia/8EFE3B8F5AFA07450F87E4E9B553A43E

Antiquity, Cambridge University Press

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-WRITING

The Origins of Writing

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-origins-of-writing

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-BRITISH-WRITING

Egyptian hieroglyphs: decipherment timeline

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/hieroglyphs-unlocking-ancient-egypt/egyptian-hieroglyphs-decipherment-timeline

The British Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-UCL-EGYPT-CHRONOLOGY

Chronology of Ancient Egypt

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/chronology/index.html

University College London, Petrie Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-BURKINA-IRON

Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1602/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-HELSINKI-ANCIENT-MIGRATION

Records of Ancient Migration: Locating the Relocated under Empire

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/projects/records-of-ancient-migration-locating-the-relocated-under-empire/

University of Helsinki

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-BIRTH-ISLAM

The Birth of Islam

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-birth-of-islam

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-MET-PAPER

Immaterial: Paper

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/immaterial-paper

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-GLOBAL-TEARA-POLYNESIAN-MIGRATIONS

Pacific migrations: From West to East Polynesia

https://teara.govt.nz/en/pacific-migrations/page-4

Te Ara, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage

CIT-GLOBAL-NMAI-NATIVE-FOOD

Native Life and Food: Food Is More Than Just What We Eat

https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/native-life-food

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

CIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-SLAVE-TRADE

British transatlantic slave trade records

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/

The National Archives, United Kingdom

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ENSLAVED-ROUTES

Routes of Enslaved Peoples

https://www.unesco.org/en/routes-enslaved-peoples

UNESCO

CIT-GLOBAL-CAMBRIDGE-MUSLIM-EMPIRES

The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/muslim-empires-of-the-ottomans-safavids-and-mughals/E672C426EF2A9EF89C502CAE111C376A

Cambridge University Press

CIT-GLOBAL-SCIENCE-MUSEUM-ENERGY

Energy Hall

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/energy-hall

Science Museum, London

CIT-GLOBAL-UK-PARLIAMENT-FACTORY-ACT

The 1833 Factory Act

https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/19thcentury/overview/factoryact/

UK Parliament

CIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-INDENTURE

Indian Indentured Labourers

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/indian-indentured-labourers/

The National Archives, United Kingdom

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-AAPRAVASI

Aapravasi Ghat

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1227/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-ILO-COLONIAL-FORCED-LABOUR

Modern slavery: the British challenge in international context

https://www.ilo.org/resource/statement/modern-slavery-british-challenge-international-context

International Labour Organization

CIT-GLOBAL-NASA-TAMBORA

Mount Tambora Volcano, Sumbawa Island, Indonesia

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/mount-tambora-volcano-sumbawa-island-indonesia-39412/

NASA Earth Observatory

CIT-GLOBAL-USHMM-FORCED-LABOR

Forced Labor: An Overview

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/forced-labor-an-overview

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-BANDUNG

Asian-African Conference Archives

https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/asian-african-conference-archives

UNESCO Memory of the World

CIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-INDIAN-INDEPENDENCE

Indian Independence

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/indian-independence/

The National Archives, United Kingdom

CIT-GLOBAL-CAMBRIDGE-PARTITION

I Am Not a Refugee: Rethinking Partition Migration

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/ai-am-not-a-refugeea-rethinking-partition-migration/006FEE62F5A995550A89DD5AB51E46AB

Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press

CIT-GLOBAL-WILSON-COLD-WAR

Cold War International History Project

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/about-18

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

CIT-GLOBAL-NATIONAL-ARCHIVES-CIVIL-RIGHTS

Civil Rights Act (1964)

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act

U.S. National Archives

CIT-GLOBAL-UN-NUCLEAR-DISARMAMENT

What is nuclear disarmament?

https://www.un.org/en/peace-and-security/what-nuclear-disarmament

United Nations

CIT-GLOBAL-ILO-SUPPLY-CHAINS-2026

Employment and Social Trends 2026

https://www.ilo.org/publications/flagship-reports/employment-and-social-trends-2026

International Labour Organization

CIT-GLOBAL-IPCC-CLIMATE-MIGRATION

AR6 Working Group II, Chapter 7: Health, Wellbeing and the Changing Structure of Communities

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-7/

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-INDIGENOUS-LANGUAGES

International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032)

https://www.unesco.org/en/decades/indigenous-languages

UNESCO

CIT-GLOBAL-NHM-HOMININ-BRANCHES

The origin of our species

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-origin-of-our-species.html

Natural History Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-NHM-AUSTRALOPITHECUS-AFARENSIS

Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy's species

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/australopithecus-afarensis-lucy-species.html

Natural History Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-MAX-PLANCK-SOCIAL-LEARNING

Early knapping techniques do not necessitate cultural transmission

https://pure.mpg.de/view/item_3396967

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-DMANISI

Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5225/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-PALEOLITHIC-HEARTHS

The influence of smoke density on hearth location and activity areas at Lower Paleolithic Lazaret Cave

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05517-z

Scientific Reports

CIT-GLOBAL-MAX-PLANCK-NEANDERTALS

Neandertals

https://www.mpg.de/neandertals

Max Planck Society

CIT-GLOBAL-NOAA-LATE-ICE-AGE

Sea level, ice and vegetation changes from 19,000 BCE

https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/blue-marble-sea-level-ice-and-vegetation-changes-19000bc-10000ad/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

CIT-GLOBAL-OXFORD-GOBEKLI-TEPE

Gobekli Tepe: Exploring New Ideas and Evidence

https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/gobekli-tepe-exploring-new-ideas-and-evidence

University of Oxford

CIT-GLOBAL-ISAC-PERSEPOLIS-TABLETS

Persepolis Fortification Tablets

https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/persepolis-fortification-tablets

Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago

CIT-GLOBAL-UNESCO-ASHOKAN-ROUTES

Serial nomination for Ashokan Edict sites along the Mauryan Routes

https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6803

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

CIT-GLOBAL-BRITISH-MUSEUM-MALI-TRADE

The Asante Ewer: Mansa Musa and trans-Saharan gold trade

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/asante-ewer/asante-ewer-large-print-guide

The British Museum

CIT-GLOBAL-LOC-REFORMATION-PRINT

Martin Luther as Priest, Heretic and Outlaw

https://guides.loc.gov/martin-luther-priest-heretic-outlaw

Library of Congress

CIT-GLOBAL-IRRI-GREEN-REVOLUTION

Breeding history: IR8 and the Green Revolution

https://ricetoday.irri.org/breeding-history/

International Rice Research Institute

CIT-GLOBAL-WORLD-BANK-URBANIZATION

Demographic Trends and Urbanization

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/urbandevelopment/publication/demographic-trends-and-urbanization

World Bank