10000 years of economy

Theme
#break & The origins

8500 - 560 BC
8500 to 2500 BC

Emergence of farmers and stockbreeders
3300 BC

Emergence of lending and writing, initially used for accounting
3000 BC

Appearance of the first towns
Theme
#break & Antiquity to Middle Ages

520 BC - 1474
12th and 13th centuries

Medieval economic revolution
Mid- 15th century

China starts closing up
1452 to 1456

Invention of printing in Europe
Theme
#break & Great discoveries

1474 - 1740
Late 15th - 16th centuries

The Great Discoveries
Early 18th century

Beginning of the agricultural revolution in Europe
Theme
#break & Industrial revolutions

1740 - 1945
1740 - 1760

The industrial revolution
1789

French Revolution: economic causes and environment
Late 18th to 19th century

Start of the abolition of slavery
1801

Promulgation of the General Enclosure Act by the British Parliament
1829

Construction of the Rocket, one of the first steam engines
1873 - 1896

Great Depression in Europe and the United States
1880 - 1914

The second industrial revolution
1914 - 1918

First World War
1917

Russian Revolution
1929

Stock market crash on Wall Street and start of the 1930s crisis
1939 - 1945

World War II: a conflict with major economic consequences
Theme
#break & Contemporary world

1945 to the present
1945 - 1975

Decolonization
1945 - 1974

The post-World War II 30-year boom period (the trente glorieuses)
1949

China becomes communist
1971 - 1973

End of the gold-dollar standard and switch to a floating exchange rate system
1978

Liberalisation and economic opening of China
1989 -1991

Breakup of the Eastern bloc
2007

Start of the subprime crisis
2015

Paris Climate Agreement

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#break & The origins

8500 to 2500 BC

3300 BC

3000 BC

#break & Antiquity to Middle Ages

12th and 13th centuries

Mid- 15th century

1452 to 1456

#break & Great discoveries

Late 15th - 16th centuries

Early 18th century

#break & Industrial revolutions

1740 - 1760

1789

Late 18th to 19th century

1801

1829

1873 - 1896

1880 - 1914

1914 - 1918

1917

1929

1939 - 1945

#break & Contemporary world

1945 - 1975

1945 - 1974

1949

1971 - 1973

1978

1989 -1991

2007

2015