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History

  • 3000 BCE

    Egypt unites

    Egypt unites
    royal cubit
  • 2400 BCE

    Temple platforms are built in peru

    Temple platforms are built in peru
    The Temple of the Moon is an Incan ceremonial temple on Huayna Picchu near Machu Picchu
  • 2050 BCE

    Middle Kingdom of Egypt begins

    Middle Kingdom of Egypt begins
    After toppling the last rulers of the Tenth Dynasty, Mentuhotep began consolidating his power over all of Egypt.
  • 2000 BCE

    Greeks colonize the Mediterranean

    Greeks colonize the Mediterranean
    sailors and explorers, settling regions around the Mediterranean Sea.
  • 2000 BCE

    Development of Chinese Writing

    Development of Chinese Writing
    from the practice of divination
  • 1989 BCE

    Berlin Wall falls

    Berlin Wall falls
    guarded concrete barrier
  • 1776 BCE

    Declaration of Independence signed

    Declaration of Independence signed
    the name given to the Second Continental Congress's public act of declaring the American colonies independent from Great Britain on July 4, 1776.
  • 1438 BCE

    Incan Empire founded

    Incan Empire founded
    The Inca civilization is known for creating the largest empire ever seen in the Americas.
  • 1350 BCE

    Akhenaton and Nefertiti begin their rule

    Akhenaton and Nefertiti begin their rule
    helped Akhenaten transform the Egyptian religious landscape.
  • 1215 BCE

    English Magna Carta signed

    English Magna Carta signed
    writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
  • 960 BCE

    Song Dynasty began in China

    Song Dynasty began in China
    The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou.
  • 800 BCE

    Arab traders brought paper from China

    Arab traders brought paper from China
    The Important Paper making, printing, gunpowder and the compass.
  • 750 BCE

    Greeks colonize the Mediterranean

    Greeks colonize the Mediterranean
    The Greeks began founding colonies as far back as 900 to 700 B.C.E.
  • 600 BCE

    Islam spreads to North Africa

    Islam spreads to North Africa
    via merchants, traders, scholars, and missionaries
  • 570 BCE

    Muhammad is born

    Muhammad is born
    The Quran asserts that Muhammad was a man who possessed the highest moral excellence
  • 566 BCE

    Buddha is born

    Buddha is born
    the huge blocks of stone previously used to erect temples and royal edifices were replaced by standard-sized stone bricks—Talatats
  • 551 BCE

    Confucius is born

    Confucius is born
    Confucius was a philosopher and teacher who lived from 551 to 479 B.C.E.
  • 509 BCE

    Roman Republic is established

    Roman Republic is established
    Republic began in 509 BCE when a group of noblemen overthrew the last king of Rome.
  • 500 BCE

    Adena mounds are built in Ohio

    Adena mounds are built in Ohio
    These mortuary buildings were intended to keep and maintain the dead until their final burial was performed.
  • 500 BCE

    Height of Mayan Civilization

    Height of Mayan Civilization
    Mayan civilization consisted of more than 40 cities, each with a population between 5,000 and 50,000.
  • 221 BCE

    China has first emperor

    China has first emperor
    China's First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang
  • 206 BCE

    Han dynasty begins in china

    Han dynasty begins in china
    The Han dynasty is known its long reign and its achievements.
  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar is killed

    Julius Caesar is killed
    Republic and its laws, was a smarty pants
  • 100

    Paper invented in China

    Paper invented in China
    Ts'ai mixed mulberry bark, hemp and rags with water, mashed it into pulp, pressed out the liquid and hung the thin mat to dry in the sun.
  • 476

    Roman Empire Falls

    Roman Empire Falls
    The collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century.
  • 1438

    Incan Empire founded

    Incan Empire founded
    they were created by the sun god, Inti, who sent his son Manco Capac to Earth through the middle of three caves in the village of Paccari Tampu.
  • 1492

    Columbus reaches the Caribbean

    Columbus reaches the Caribbean
    Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador.
  • 1503

    Reign of Queen Hatshepsut begins

    Reign of Queen Hatshepsut begins
    portrays the female pharaoh Hatshepsut with the body of a lion and a human head wearing a nemes–headcloth and false beard.
  • President Lincoln is killed

    President Lincoln is killed
    Shot in the head by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln died the next morning.
  • WW2 Begins

    WW2 Begins
    Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany
  • Soviet Union breaks apart

    Soviet Union breaks apart
    a single-party Marxist–Leninist state.
  • Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa

    Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa
    He was the first non-White head of state in South African history, as well as the first to take office following the dismantling