This is a guide of 1,000 great events that has happened on this planet that has shaped the world.
This guide or whatever you want to call it,will show from the start of the world to 1982 1,000 great events.
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I typed it all in since I couldn't find a website with all the text there so I had to type it.
So yeah I know its copying but I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.
I just thought this would be a good area to discuss on certain events you want to discuss on but first the facts have to be put down.
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Introduction
This guide describes one thousand of the greatest events that have occurred in the history of civilization. Some of them are great advances in the history of man-great medical or scientific discoveries for example. Others are disasters caused by man's inhumanity to man-such as the Thirty Years' War,or the dropping of the atom bomb-not ?great? but unfortunately important historical events.
Many of the events in this guide are cultural milestones,famous books or paintings. And many events may not seem important to you at all: popular music or social customs may not seem to be as significant as revolutions and wars,but they are nevertheless useful pointers.
This guide covers the last seven thousand years of the world's history. This seems like a long time,but it is quite brief compared with the four million years or so that man has walked the earth. Yet man himself is a real newcomer on the earth,although he has had more impact on his surroundings than any other creature.
The origins of the earth
It is estimated that our planet was born as much as 4,500 million years ago. It has often been stated in the past that the world began as a hot,fiery ball. This is no longer thought to be true. A modern idea suggests that the earth and its satellite,the moon,were formed by the cold accumulation and compaction of gas and dust particles in space. As the earth compacted,enough heat was generated to start certain materials breaking down.
Those materials known as,radioactive elements,released even more heat. The earth now seems to be cooling down again but at the centre of the planet today the temperature is still estimated to be as much as 2,700?C. You can get some idea of just how hot this is by remembering that water boils at a mere 100?C.
