APWH Timeline

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  • 200

    BCE; Teotihuanican population increased to 50 thousand

  • Period: 300 to

    CE Maya Built more than 80 ceremonial centers

  • 400

    BCE Olmec society falls

  • 500

    BCE Aryan groups migrate

  • 500

    CE: Teotihuanican experienced military pressure

  • Oct 17, 600

    CE: Teotihuanican's high point

  • Oct 18, 650

    CE: Teotihuanican entered period of decline

  • Oct 1, 760

    BCE King Kashta conquered Thebes

  • Oct 1, 1000

    19th century BCE imperial rule returned to Mesopotamia

  • Oct 1, 1000

    BCE Iron Metallurgy began

  • Oct 1, 1000

    10,000 BCE Migrants from Red Sea Hills migrate

  • Oct 1, 1000

    BCE African Peoples produce iron

  • Oct 1, 1000

    CE Bantu speaking peoples occupy most of Africa

  • Oct 1, 1000

    BCE Pace of Bantu migrations quicken

  • Oct 1, 1000

    BCE Vedic Age

  • Oct 18, 1000

    BCE: New religion appeared in Central Andes

  • Oct 1, 1001

    Late Centuries BCE: agriculture reaches most of Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Oct 1, 1100

    BCE Egyptian forces retreat from Nubia

  • Period: Oct 1, 1122 to

    BCE Shang Dynasty

    (1766-1122 bce)
  • Oct 5, 1200

    BCE first Olmec ceremonial center

  • Period: Oct 10, 1200 to Oct 12, 1500

    BCE Shang uses bronze for chariots

  • Oct 1, 1300

    BCE Hittites refine iron metallurgy

  • Oct 1, 1300

    13,000 BCE: first wave of migrations from Siberia to Alaska

  • Oct 1, 1450

    BCE Kush was destroyed

  • Oct 1, 1500

    BCE Phoenicians devise alphabetic script

  • Oct 1, 1500

    BCE Aryans moved through Hindu Kush mts.

  • 16th century CE; Spanish conquerors destroy Mayan books

  • BCE Hyksos capture Memphis

  • BCE Hittites migrate to Annatolia

  • BCE Harappan society entrered period of decline

  • BCE Harappan society faced a crisis

  • Lucy was dicovered

  • BCE Hittites invent spoked wheel

  • Period: to

    BCE Mohenjo-Daro's high point

    (2500-2000 bce)
  • Period: to

    BCE Agriculture spread throughout Mesoamerica

  • Period: to

    BCE: permanent settlements dot coastal regions of the Andean heartlands

  • BCE Thoughtful individuals retreat to the forests of the Ganges

  • CE: Maya populations desert their cities

  • Period: to Oct 2, 1200

    BCE Phoenicians dominate Mediterranean trade

    Actually 1200 b.c.e -800 b.c.e

  • BCE Xia dynasty

  • BCE Mesopotamia falls under rule of several empires

  • BCE Phoenicians turn to trade

  • BCE Conflicts between city states

  • BCE Regular trade with merchants

  • BCE Cuneiform Writing

  • BCE Earliest Urban societies emerge

  • BCE Literacy in Mesopotamia

  • BCE Settlements of Early Phoenicians

  • BCE Sumerian knowledge of bronze and wheels spread

  • BCE Bantu were spreading to west african forest

  • BCE Dravidians build complex societies

  • Period: to

    BCE Yangshao flourished

    (5000-3000 bce)

  • BCE Neolithic villages evolve into cities

  • BCE Unified rule comes to Egypt

  • BCE Writing appeared in Egypt

  • BCE Harappan writing

  • BCE Wheeled Carts

  • BCE Watercraft

  • 3rd millenium BCE Large regional states began to emerge

  • BCE Bronze metallurgy was discovered

  • BCE Small kingdoms appear in southern Egypt and Nubia

  • BCE Sudanic people form Monarchies

  • BCE Climate change in Northern Africa

  • BCE African climate grows hotter and drier

  • BCE agriculture started to spread

  • BCE Fall of Egypt

  • BCE Bronze implements become widespread

  • BCE Eastern Sudan establish permanent settlements

  • BCE Village of Jericho

  • BCE became difficult to forage food

  • BCE beginning of agriculture

  • BCE nomadic herders