ARV religions

By brendanhowe
  • 3761 BCE

    Hebrew's work in progress

    The beginning date of the Hebrew calendar, according to scholar Rabbi Yossi ben Halafta, a 2nd century Rabbi. Adam & Eve created (Year 1 of Jewish calendar).
  • 3500 BCE

    Settling down

    Chalcolithic Period, first settlement
  • 3300 BCE

    Tell-as-Sakan (or something)

    First confirmed settlement of Gaza at Tell as-Sakan
  • 2500 BCE

    The center of our world colonized

    First houses built in Jerusalem
  • Period: 2300 BCE to 2200 BCE

    Our first writer

    Priestess Enheduanna, first known author in the world
  • 1500 BCE

    Holy night

    Composition begins on The Vedas
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    The birth of a new beginning

    Life of Zoroaster according to modern scholar estimations.
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    The prophet of the Zoro

    The prophet Zoroaster reforms religious belief, retains ancient mythological symbols and characters.
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Creation of a Persian justice

    Zoroaster develops his new vision of religious truth which becomes Zoroastrianism.
  • Period: 628 BCE to 551 BCE

    Pahlavi's work

    Life of Zoroaster, according to Pahlavi sources.
  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Life of Confucius

    Confucius (Kongzi) was an eminent teacher and philosopher whose views, recorded in "The Analects" (Lunyu), exerted an enormous influence over later developments in Chinese thought and government.
  • 500 BCE

    His name was Siddhartha right?

    Life of Shakyamuni Buddha, based on whose teachings Buddhism developed.
  • 400 BCE

    The spread of a noble cause

    Hinduism is spread to SE Asia by Hindu traders
  • 400 BCE

    Resuscitation

    Revival of Hinduism under Gupta patronage
  • 300 BCE

    Poetry in action

    Composition of epic poem Ramayana
  • Period: 269 BCE to 231 BCE

    Ashoka reign of "terror"

    Reign of King Ashoka, patron of Buddhism; sends first Buddhists to Sri Lanka in the third century.
  • 224 BCE

    The Persian state of religion

    Zoroastrianism becomes Persian state religion under the Sassanian Empire.
  • 200 BCE

    Law enforcement

    Hindu laws codified
  • Period: 175 BCE to 105 BCE

    Life of Dong Zhongshu

    Dong Zhongshu's synthesis of Daoism, Legalism and Confucianism provided a means to legitimate Han rule, and became a key part of imperial ideology for subsequent dynasties.
  • Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE

    The reign of Emperor Wu

    Liu Che: Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 BCE ) expanded the Han Empire into Central Asia, Vietnam, and the Korean peninsular, he promoted state activism, and his reign also witnessed the rise of Imperial Confucianism which served as the ideological justification for his imperialistic policies
  • 100 BCE

    Rise from the unknown world

    Rise of Mahayana Buddhism.
  • 150

    Spreading the cure

    Reign of King Kanishka; Mahayana Buddhism spreads to Central Asia.
  • 200

    Enter chinese culture

    Buddhism first enters China.
  • Period: 768 to 824

    Han Yu

    A leading intellectual of the later Tang dynasty, Han Yu advocated a return to Confucian learning as a means to revitalize the government. To this end, he argued against imperial patronage of Buddhism, and promoted the "ancient style" (guwen) of prose. He is considered a forerunner of the Song Neo-Confucian movement.
  • Period: 1150 to 1223

    Life of Ye Shi

    Ye Shi, a prominent official and statecraft thinker in 12th-13th century Wenzhou, Zhejiang; the representative voice of the so-called Yongjia school. His political essays bear on the Song government and economy. He wrote a famous defense of Zhu Xi in 1188, yet his later stinging criticisms of the speculative philosophy also brought him renown as the critic of Zhu Xi.