Timeline

Below is my timeline and cultural events that coincide with the times listed. In case it is hard to see, here is the timeline 

    100,00 BC- Prehistoric Era

    1894 BC    Babylonia

    9,600-8,200 BC Early Farmers

    1,000 BC Phoenician Alphabet invented

    1191 BC Trojan War

    1300's Bubonic Plague

    1615 Trial of Galileo

    1804 Napoleon becomes Emperor in France

    1850 Little Ice Age

    1853-1856 Crimean War

    1859- Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species

    1918- Spanish Flu

    The Roaring 20's

    1929- The Stock Market Crash - Led to Great Depression

    1940's- World War II

    1948- The State of Israel

    1967- Six Days War

    1955-1975- The Vietnam War

    1979- The Eradication of Small Pox

    1986 NASA's Challenger Explodes

In my opinion, these are large social, cultural, and scientific events that coincide and put these ages into perspective. For example, At the same time Plutonium, GFRP, and Actinides were being found, we were also fighting World War II.  I found it interesting to grasp the technological and scientific advances.

Nuclear Power Sustainability

    The sustainability of nuclear power began to be questioned in 2011 with the Fukushima Disaster in Japan.  On March 11, 2011 a 9.0 earthquake shook Japan and a few minutes later a 15 meter tsunami hit the shores of Japan.  In its path it hit the Fukushima Daiichi plant and three of the reactors were disabled when the power supply was cut and the cooling system failed to keep the nuclear reactors from letting off nuclear waste into the air. The nuclear gas, forced the government to call an immediate evacuation of the surrounding area. The plant continues to leak leaving those close to it exposed to radioactive material.
    The question this disaster proposed was whether nuclear energy could be a safe and sustainable energy source, especially in an area where natural disasters are prone to occur.