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Period: 400 to
The Chavin cult
The true name of the cult has been lost to the sands of time
The name is based of the name of a town where the ruins where first found
Very little is known about the cult other than it revoled around corn and how it expaned population in South America -
Period: 400 to
Polynnesian expansion arcoss the South Pasific
Polynnesian adventueres and expolores colonised the enterity of the south pasific ocean
They used catarrans bassic conoes to explore and expand
They had a cheifan system for a ruling class no major goverments -
Period: 400 to
Olmec society
The Olmecs scoecity was based in Mesoamerica
They had a city state culure based on a preist class and blood sacrifece
The olmec culuture deeply infuleced other cultures that came after it
The rubber ball game that the Maya are famous for started with the Olmec -
Period: 437 to 517
The life span of Siddharta Gautama, the Budda
The Budda
The founder of Buddism
He was a prince who regected his kingdom for his morality -
442
Cyrus becomes King of Persian tribes
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Period: 442 to Dec 8, 670
Achaemenid Empire
Created Satrapies
23 of them
Administrative districts.
Only leading ruler of Satrap had to be Persian -
447
Cyrus initiates uprising
Against Median overlord. Defeated Median Overlord less than 3 years later -
452
Iran under Achemenid control
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Period: 460 to 532
the life of Vadhammana Mahavira
The founder of jainism -
461
Babylon under Achaemenid Control
Began in 455.
Vassal states recognized Cyrus as king -
470
Cyrus dies, Cambyses takes over
Was defending Northern border from nomadic raiders.
Mortally wounded
Cyrus' body placed in simple tomb in Pasargadea
Cambyses is Cyrus' son. -
475
Cambyses conquers Egypt
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500
Ionian Cities Rebel
Expelled or Executed all governers
Asserted their independence -
Period: 500 to 521
Persian Wars
Started with Ionians Rebelling
Greeks sent aid to Ionians
Darius sends army to quell rebellion
Darius attacks Greek Peninusla
Forced back after Battle of Marathon
Xerxes sends another force, but it's repelled
Sparred intermitently for an extended period of time -
510
Battle of Marathon
Victory by Greeks -
520
Xerxes' invasion of Greece
After his father is killed xerxes leads a force into greece to end he war
He later withdraws and it is consited a greek victory -
520
The Battle of Salamis
Naval battle around salamis island
Greek victory -
Period: 530 to Dec 9, 601
the life of Socrates
Greek philsopher who expessed the ideas of exsamination and a strive to be a moral person
He commited to death by the citizens of atheans for corruptin the youth -
Period: 557 to 571
Pericles leadership of Athens
Pericles was the leader of Atheans in its golden days -
Period: 570 to Dec 9, 653
The life of Plato
A greek philospher
questioned reality through his use of Platos cave a though experiment
Student of Socrates and teacher to Aristotle -
Period: Dec 9, 664 to Dec 9, 677
The reign of Alexander of Macedon
destorys Persia
gets to india and invades
his death Divides the empire into three. -
Dec 8, 666
Alexander Attacks Persia
Attacks with 48,000 Macedonian warriors
Eventually destroys Persepolis, and claims Persian Empire for himself -
Dec 8, 673
Alexander invades India
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Period: Dec 8, 677 to
Seleucid Empire
Had best area given from Alexander
Containeed most of Former Achaemenid empire
Attracted Greek colonists to fill new cities
Faced opposition from Native Persians
Destroyed by Romans -
Dec 8, 714
Daoism
According to tradition founded by Laozi
Strived to do nothing
Less government is better
Counterbalanced Confucianism -
Period: Dec 9, 736 to
The Punic Wars
The three wars between rome and carthage that determined who would rule the Medditerrian -
Period: Dec 9, 737 to
The Reign of Ashoka Maurya
Ashoka expanaded the Mauryan empire to the greatest hight
Expaned buddism by making it the offical religion
after his death the empire fell into regional states -
Period: Dec 8, 753 to Dec 8, 1224
Parthian Empire
Controled Iran and Mesopotamia
Retained Culture of Nomadic people
Didn't have a centralized government
Made larger, stronger horses to assist in repelling invaders
Conflicted with Rome multiple times
Eventually destroyed by internal rebellion -
Dec 8, 762
Parthian Satrap Rebels
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Dec 8, 767
Legalism
Solved PoWS
Channeled everyone into cultivation or military service
Strict legal regimen, harsh punishments -
Period: Dec 9, 1000 to Dec 9, 1300
The Kushan empire in Northern India and Centarl Asia
Kush became a major empire in northern India
and played a major part in the silk empire -
Dec 25, 1000
Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
The savior of the christian religon
His ideas shape europe and by exrtention the world for two milleania -
Period: Dec 9, 1005 to Dec 9, 1067
The life of Paul of Tarsus
Expaned Christianity by writing letters and traveling around the Eastern part of the Roman Empire -
Period: Dec 9, 1009 to Dec 9, 1023
Wang Mang in charge
Usurped from Han Dynasty
Instituded Socialist reforms
Uprising ended his life -
Period: Dec 9, 1025 to Dec 9, 1220
Later Han Dynasty
the han dyansty after Wang Mang weak compared to the earleir dynasty -
Period: Dec 9, 1066 to Dec 9, 1070
The Great Jewish Revolt
The temple was lost and ransacked
The Coloseaum was built by Jewish slavea and the funds from the Temple -
Period: Dec 9, 1078 to Dec 9, 1103
The reign of Kanishka of Kush
The most famous Kshan emperor he expaned kush into the empire that encompased northen India and Pakistan. -
Period: Dec 8, 1224 to
Sasanid Empire
Began by toppleing the Parthians
Traded with people in East and West
Created Buffer states between them and the Romans
Got into border arguments with Rome Byzantium and Kush, but no one nation was strong enough to topple another
Arabs killed last emporer and incorperated it into their realm. -
Period: Dec 9, 1300 to
Maya society
The Maya were a Mesoamerica tribe which had a complex scoiety based on city states
Maya glyphs writing has only been rediscoverin the last fity years
Mayan religon was based on blood and corn, the gods had water the earth with their own blood and the Maya repaided them with the sacifice of their rulers blood -
Dec 9, 1313
The edict of Milian
The edict that legalised Christianity in the Roman empire -
Period: Dec 9, 1313 to Dec 9, 1337
the reign of Constantine
The first chrisian emperor
Founded Constantinople
Csme up the idea of divine right -
Period: Dec 9, 1320 to Dec 9, 1550
The Gupta dynasty
The Gupta empire was Indias second attempt for a centeralised goverment.
Became a alliance between diffrent regions
Was destoryed by the white huns and disigrated back into regonal kingdoms -
Dec 9, 1325
The Council of Nicea
The Council at constantiople which determined what chirstian theology was right.
They determined that Christ was a human and God at the same Time -
Dec 9, 1340
The Transfer of power from Rome to Constantinople
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Darius takes over
Expands Empire East and West.
Administrated the largest empire the world had yet seen.
Centralized government -
Persepolis built
Capital of Achaemenid Empire
Built by Darius
Served as nerve center for Achaemenid empire
Massive Ruins here today -
Laws brought to single standard
Didn't abolish Laws of individual areas, or peoples
Just brought them to a closer uniform standard -
Parthian's begin to take control from Seleucids
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Parthians Consolidate hold on Iran and Mesopotamia
Led by Mithradates I -
Invasion of Persia by Darius
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the Birth of the Roman Repbulic
The last Roman king the tarquin is killed -
Julius Ceasar comes to power
Julius Ceasar killes his fellow tribunal members and becomes the Dictator of Rome -
Julius Ceasar was Assinated
On the ides of march Julius Ceasar was assinated by senators wishing to bring back the Roman Republic -
Period: to
Period of Warring States
China is broken into kingdoms while the imperal goverment becomes a letter head
The three Great eastern Philosphys emerge in this time period -
Period: to 521
Kong Fuzi alive
Confucius
Came from aristocratic family
Tried to find influential role in one of the many warring states.
Never found one
Diciples found Confucianism
Compiled in the Analects
Didn't deal with anything that couldn't help during the PoWS
Wanted to create people of extraordinary contience and education -
Period: to
Qin Dynasty
Destroyed all other states during PoWS, claimed self emporer
Created Stability
Upon Emperor's death dynasty disolved -
Period: to Dec 9, 1009
Former Han Dynasty
Liu Bang centralized rule almost imeadiatly
Centralized and Decentralized rule -
Period: to Dec 9, 1000
Bactrian Empire in Northern India
Originaly a provenicance in the Persian empire it was concoured by Alexander and after his death later became its own kingdom was concoured by the white huns which in turn destroyed the Gupta empire -
Period: to Dec 9, 703
The Reign of Chandragupta Maurya
Chandragupta Mauarya was the founder of the Mauryan empire and started an empire that would last for a few generations -
Period: to
The Maurya Dyanasty
Founded by Chandragupta Maurya
lasted three generations
Ended by Ashoka's death and a top heavy govermentaly system -
Period: to
The Pelponnesian War
After the fall of the Pelponnesian leauge a defensive pact agaist the Persians sparta lead the leauge into a war with Atheans
Sparta wins and conquers Atheans -
Period: to
Roman civil strife
Rome falls apart due to the arstocrasyty owning much of the land and the majority of the population of rome jobless.
Generals try to seise power and control of the empire -
Period: to
The rule of Augustus
After Ceasars death agustus formed the second triumvirate which degenerated into a blood bath which Augustus won and then he went on to defet then rebels and so he started the Roman empire -
Period: to Dec 9, 1476
The Roman Empire
The undisputed rulers of Europe and the Medditarranian in the classical era
The most formitsable army in eurasia in the Classical era -
Period: to
The Roman Repblic
Rome transfers from a monacrhy to a repblic
the Repblic fopunds the base of the American Democarcy
leads to the creation of the Roman empire