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Historical "time - line". |
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| 11000 - 9500 BC | Stone Age twilight: "hunting & gathering". . . |
| 9500 - 8000 BC | Hunter-gatherers, pick up your tools! . . . |
| 8000 - 5500 BC | Mesolithic: tools-based advance . . . |
| 5500 - 3000 BC | Late mesolithic 'Golden Age': village life & varied diet . . . |
| 3000 - 900 BC | Neolithic settlers; bring on the Bronze . . . |
| 900 - 400 BC | Dawning of the Iron Age: the Celts arrive . . . |
| 400 - 200 BC | Iron Age downturn in climate . . . |
| 200 - 51 BC | 'Golden Age' of Celtic Britain: Romans have a go . . . |
| 50 BC - 99 AD | Celtic twilight: Rome builds roads . . . |
| 100 - 399 AD | 'Pax Romana': roads, villas & taxation . . . |
| 400 - 649 AD | Anglo - Saxon England: Celts on the fringe . . . |
| 650 - 849 AD | Saxon England: Viking raiders . . . |
| 850 - 1050 AD | Scandinavian expansion: Vikings arrive in force . . . |
| 1051 - 1249 | Early Middle Ages: Normans & Crusades . . . |
| 1250 - 1484 | Later Middle Ages: Poll tax, plagues & printing . . . |
| 1485 - 1602 | Tudor domination: Scotland free, for now . . . |
| 1603 - 1713 | A Stuart Union: Civil war & New Horizons . . . |
| 1714 - 1836 | "Georgius Rex", but the Commons rule . . . |
| 1837 - 1865 | Victoria & Albert: the Railway Age . . . |
| 1866 - 1901 | Age of Empire: Europe turns smokey . . . |
| 1902 - 1913 | Edwardian 'golden age': Europe arms, before the fall . . . |
| 1914 - 1920 | Total War: Collapse of Empires . . . |
| 1921 - 1938 | Of Dictators, Socialism & the nervous peace . . . |
| 1939 - 1952 | Total war, cold war: the Nuclear Age dawns . . . |
| 1953 - 1979 | Consensus & the mixed economy: Race to Space . . . |
| 1980 - 2000 | Globalisation: collapse of the 'Evil Empire' . . . |
| 2001 - and onwards | Climate change, threat or theory? . . . |
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