2B Mackenzie Swafford world history timeline

  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    mesopotamian civilization

    greek word meaning between the rivers tigeris and euphates made of many different regions within it own geography
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

    egyptian civilization

    middle east africa bordered by the gaza strip the red sea is to the east and south sudan to south lybia to the west
  • Period: 2600 BCE to 1700 BCE

    indus civilization

    ancient civilization located in pakistain and northwest india today the fertail food plane of the indus river
  • 2560 BCE

    pyramid of cheops

    pyramid of cheops
    fourth dynasty also known as the giza pyrimids
  • 1792 BCE

    hammurabis code

    an eye for an eye
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 300 BCE

    phoenician civilization

    ancient civilization composed of independent city states which lay along the medditerranen sea streching along what is now syria,lebannon,north isral
  • Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE

    chinese civilization

    located in southwest asia along the coastline of the pacific ocean worlds third largest country the great wall also lies here in china
  • Period: 753 BCE to 27 BCE

    roman civilization

    in the center of metropolitan city of rome population of 4.3 millon resident it is also along the shores of tiber river
  • Period: 610 BCE to 1979 BCE

    islamic civilization

    middle east 7th century islam means surrender or submistion founded on teachings of the prophet muhammad
  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    persian civilization

    located in iran north of the persain gulf and south of the caspain sea and is one of the oldest civilizations indigeous to iran
  • 483 BCE

    siddartha/buddha dies

    siddartha/buddha dies
    budda created buddism
  • 480 BCE

    battle of thermopylae

    sparta vs greece
  • Period: 332 BCE to 31 BCE

    hellenistic civilization

    spread greek ideas and culture from the eastern medditeranean sea to asia
  • 331 BCE

    alexander the great defeats darius

    city states asian minnor
  • 221 BCE

    qin rule begins

    great wall was built , shi huang di
  • Period: 8 BCE to 146 BCE

    hellenic civilization

    parliment of greece located at the old royal palace overlooking syntagom square in athens
  • Period: 5 BCE to 15 BCE

    middle age europe

    between the fall of rome and the beginning of the renassance many scholors called it the midevil period
  • 5

    democracy begins in athens

    the first known democracy
  • 6

    hagia sophia is built

    a domed monument also a church in the byzantine empire
  • 7

    schism of sunni and shia

    after muhhamed death in 632
  • Period: 66 to 5

    hebrew

    defined as the decendents of jacob son of isaac grandson of abraham
  • 313

    decree of milan

    napoleon 1 plan to defeat the british by waging economic warefare
  • Period: 330 to 1453

    byzantine civilization

    greek colony founded by a man named byzas located on the european side of the bosporus it was to serve as a transit and travel point between europe and asian minor
  • 476

    fall of rome

    overthrown by barbarian leader
  • 622

    hegira begins

    mecca and medina
  • 732

    battle of tours

    umayyad,visigothic,christain kingdoms
  • Period: 793 to 1066

    viking

    viking is another word for pirate extended to all corners of northern europe and many other nations the vikings raided
  • 1054

    great schism

    east and west churches
  • Period: 1185 to

    japanese civilization

    located in the pacific ocean japans name means ''sun origin''
  • Period: 1206 to 1368

    mongol

    located in east centural asia native group to mongolia and chinas inner mongolia region
  • 1215

    magna carta

    great charter agreed to by king Jhon of england
  • 1324

    mansa musa hajj

    leader of mail
  • 1325

    tenochitlan founded

    aztec city built on lake texcoco hundreads of people lived there
  • 1337

    hundread years war begins

    france vs england lasted a 116 years
  • 1453

    fall of constantinople

    ottoman,end of the european middle ages