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Period: 2900 BCE to 1150 BCE
Greece
Minoan Period -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1000 BCE
Persian
Indo-Iranian (Aryan) tribes move south into the Iranian plateau and the Punjab of India -
1900 BCE
Greece
Probable date of the arrival of the Greeks on the mainland -
Period: 1872 BCE to 1860 BCE
Nubian
Military campaign of Senusret III of Egypt against Nubia -
1600 BCE
Nubian
Founding of the kingdom of Kush, Nubia -
Period: 1600 BCE to 1150 BCE
Greece
Mycenaean Period -
Period: 1300 BCE to 1000 BCE
Bantu
Kushitic-speaking peoples migrate from pian plateau south along Rift Valley -
1250 BCE
Greece
Possible year that the Sack of Troy occured -
Period: 1200 BCE to 1150 BCE
Greece
Destruction of Mycenaean centers in Greece -
Period: 1100 BCE to 750 BCE
Greece
Dark Ages -
Period: 800 BCE to 550 BCE
Steppe Peoples
The Cimmerians are ousted from the Pontic steppe by their cousins the Scythians -
Period: 750 BCE to 500 BCE
Greece
Major period of Greek colonization -
725 BCE
Greece
Probable date of Homer -
Period: 700 BCE to 500 BCE
Greece
Major period of Greek Tyranny -
Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Persian
Indo-Iranian (Aryan) tribes move south into the Iranian plateau and the Punjab of India -
Period: 539 BCE to 330 BCE
Persian
Achaemenid Empire -
Period: 502 BCE to 449 BCE
Persian
Greco-Persian wars -
Period: 400 BCE to 400
Bantu
Probable era of major Bantu migrations into central, East, and southeastern Africa -
350 BCE
Nubian
End of the Kingdom of Kush and city of Meroë in Nubia. -
Period: 331 BCE to 330 BCE
Persian
Alexander the Great (d. 323 B.C.E.) conquers Achaemenid Empire -
Period: 322 BCE to 301 BCE
Hellenistic
The successor wars between Alexander's successorts -
312 BCE
Hellenistic
Seleucos conquers Babylon and founds Seleucid dynasty -
Period: 312 BCE to 63 BCE
Persian
Seleucids rule in eastern territories of Achaemenid realm -
Period: 309 BCE to 308 BCE
Hellenistic
Agathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra. -
Period: 294 BCE to 288 BCE
Hellenistic
Demetrius I rules as king of Macedon. -
Period: 285 BCE to 282 BCE
Hellenistic
Rome defeats the Celts in Italy. Rome's dominance in central Italy is secured. -
280 BCE
Hellenistic
Founding of the Achaean League in the Peloponnese of Greece. -
275 BCE
Nubian
Ptolemy II invades the Meroitic Nubian kingdom and annexes Lower Nubia. -
Period: 248 BCE to 224 BCE
Persian
Parthian Empire of the Arsacids in Iran, Babylonia -
Period: 200 BCE to 100 BCE
Bantu
East African coast becomes involved in Indian Ocean trade -
190 BCE
Hellenistic
First appearance of multiple Euthydemid kings at the same time. Beginning of the Indo-Greek kingdoms. -
146 BCE
Hellenistic
Rome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome. -
100 BCE
Bantu
Probable time of first Indonesian immigration to East African coast -
Period: 58 BCE to 51 BCE
Hellenistic
Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. -
37 BCE
Hellenistic
Herod the Great is installed as King of Judaea. Rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem. -
Period: 30 BCE to 19 BCE
Hellenistic
Roman poet Virgil writes his Aeneid. -
1 CE
Ethiopian
First century C.E. Rise of Aksum as trading power on Ethiopian plateau -
Period: 100 to 500
Steppe Peoples
The Huns from southern Siberia invade Eastern Europe, pushing the Alans (a Samartian-descended tribe) westward -
Period: 100 to 1500
Bantu
Nilotic-speaking peoples spread over upper Nile valley; Nilotic peoples spread over Rift Valley region -
Period: 200 to 400
Ethiopian
Heyday of Aksumite Ethiopia -
330
Ethiopian
Fall of Kushite Empire to Elzana of Aksum -
Period: 550 to 1000
Steppe Peoples
The next invaders from the steppe were the Avars -
700
Greece
Probable date of Hesiod -
Period: 1235 to 1300
Steppe Peoples
Mongol empire reaches and invades Europe