Brief review of the human origins and history and their development of architecture

• 5 000 000 B.C. – AUSTRALOPITHECUS, HOMO HABILIS
• 1 600 000 – 200 000 B.C. – HOMO ERECTUS (first shelters)

• 100 000 – 40 000 B.C. – HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS (caverns)

• 40 000 BC – HOMO SAPIENS (large circular domed plant huts, covered with skins of animals and sometimes reinforced with bones)

• 8 000 – 4 000 B.C. – THE ORIGINS (agriculture encorauged the construction of permanent housing and the first cities)

• 4 000 – 3 000 B.C. – PROTOHISTORY (several large cities in Mesopothamia, urban architecture made of brick or adobe)

• 3 500 B.C. – THE EGYPTIANS (the urbanism of ancient Egypt is structured around the Nile River)

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• 1 200 – 146 B.C. – THE GREEKS (architecture inspired by Egyptians, very well made in order to honor the gods. The Polis were very well structured around the Agora)

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• 1 100 B.C. – ROMANS (as they spread throughout Europe, they spread their architecture aqueductes, baths, theatres, domes insulaes

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