Foundation Period

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  • 2.5 million B.C.E

    2.5 million B.C.E

    Emergence of Homo Sapiens in eastern Africa
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    2,5000,000

  • 1.25 million B.C.E

    1.25 million B.C.E

    1 million- Emergence of homo erectus
    600,000- Wide spread of Asia, Europe, Africa; controur of fire.
  • 150,000 B.C.E

    150,000 B.C.E

    120,000 -Emergence of homo sapiens sapiens, which displaces other human species.
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    150,000 B.C.

    120,000 Emergence of homo spiens sapiens, which displaces other human species
  • 30,000 B.C.E

    30,000 B.C.E

    30,000- 25,000 -Passage of first people to Americas.
    15,000-12,000 -Domestication of dogs
  • 10,000 B.C.E

    10,000 B.C.E

    8500-6500 -Domestication of sheep, pigs, goats, cattle
    8500-3500 -Neolithic Age; development of farming in Middle East.

  • 8000 B.C.E

    7000 -First town at Jericho.
  • 6000 B.C.E

    6000 B.C.E

    5600 Beans domesticated in Western Hemisphere.
  • 4000 B.C.E.

    4000 B.C.E.

    4000-3000 Development of writing, bronze metal-working, wheel, plow in Middle East
    3500-1800 Sumerian civilization

    3100-1087 Founding and flowering of Egyptian civilization

    2500-1500 Indus civilization in South Asia
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    4000 B.C.E.

    2000 Germans settle in Denmark

  • 2000 B.C.E.

    2000- Germans settle in Denmark
    1850 Origins of Shang kingdom in China
    1800 Formation of Babylonian Empire in Middle East1700 Indo European Invasions of Greek peninsula
    1700-1300 Rise of village culture in Mesoamerica
    1600 Beginning of Indo-European invasions of India and parts of the Mediterranean and Middle East
    1600 Spread of civilization to Crete (Minoan)
    1200-700 Vedas composed
    1500- 500 -Polynesian migrations
    1122-770- Initial Zhou kingdom
  • 5000 B.C.E

    5000 B.C.E

    5000 -Domestication of Maize (corn)
    5000-2000 -Yangshao culture in north China
  • 1600 B.C.E

    1600 B.C.E

    1600 B.C.E Aryan Invasions of India
  • 1600 B.C.E.

    1600 B.C.E.

    1500-1000 Vedic Age
  • 1200 B.C.E.

    1200 B.C.E.

    1250 Moses and Jewish exodus from Egypt (according to Jewish belief)
    1200-700 Vedas composed
    1029-258 Zhou dynasty; introduction of a standard spoken language
    1122-770 Initial Zhou kingdom
  • 1000 B.C.E

    1000 B.C.E

    1000 Germans expand southward
    900 Maya begins
    800-600 Rise of Greek city-states; Athens and Sparta become dominant
    850-250 Chavin Culture (Andes)
    800 Rise of Greek city-states
    800 B.C.E. – 1000 C.E. Bantu migration, sub-Saharan Africa
    700-403 Later Zhou kingdom; beginning of China’s classical period
  • 750 B.C.E

    750 B.C.E

    750-600 Meroe (Kush) rules Eqypt
    600 Zoroastrian religion in Iran
    600 Legendary ruler in Japan
    551-c. 233 Periods of the great Chinese philosophers: Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Legalists
  • 500 B.C.E

    500 B.C.E

    c. 500 Laozi and Daoismc
    500 Editing of the Five Classics
    500-449 Greek wars with Persia; Persia defeated
    500-450 Beginning of Roman republic
    470-430 Height of Athenian culture; Socrates and Greek philosophical stylec.

    450 Development of Chinese calendar
    431 ff. Peloponnesian Wars; decline of Greece
    330 Alexander the Great
    327-325 Alexander’s invasion
    322-185 Mauryan Empire300-100 Hellenistic Period
    300 B.C.E - 900 C.E. Heights of Maya
    264-140 Roman expansion in North Africa (Punic War)
  • 500 B.C.E

    500 B.C.E

    c.500- Laozi and Daoism.
    5.500- Editing of the Five Classics
    c. 450 -Development of Chinese calendar
    402-201 -Era of the Warring states.
  • 250 B.C.E

    250 B.C.E

    221Shi Huangdi proclaimed first emperor of China
    221-202 -Qin dynasty; the First emperor, the Great Wall begun, a single basic language.
    202 -Initial Han dynasty; key technical developments of horse collar and water mill
    202-220 -Han Dynasty
    c.200 -Introduction of ox-drawn plow, horse collar, water mill.
    141-87 -Reign of Han Wu Ti, increased bureucracy; examinations, spread of Confucianism.
    133 ff Decline of roman republic
    100 Germans begin contact with Rome; Slavs migrate into eastern Europe
  • 1 C.E.

    1 C.E.

    23-220 Later Han dynasty; invention of paper and compass
    27 Augustus founds Roman Empire

    30 Crucifixion of Jesus

    88 Beginning of Han decline

    106 Height of Roman territory

    180 Beginning of decline of Rome

    200-500 Nasca culture (Andes)
    200-700 Mochica culture Andes)
    200-1300 Anasazi in North America
  • 250 C.E

    250 C.E

    300 Decline of Meroe
    300 Spread of Buddhism
    300-400 Yamato claim imperial control of Japan
    300-700 Rise of Axum; conversion to Christianity
    300-900 Intermediate Horizon period (andes)
  • 300-1000 C.E.

    300-1000 C.E.

    Second wave of Polynesian migrations to Hawaii
    312-337 Constaintine; formation of Eastern Empire; adoption of Christianity
    319-540 Gupta Empire
    400 -Chinese script imported
    401 ff. Large-scale Germanic invasions in Roman Empire
  • 500 C.E.

    500 C.E.

    451 First Han invasion
    476 Last Roman emperor in West
    527-565 Justinian Eastern emperor
    580 ff. Spreads of Buddhism in Japan
    589-618 Sui dynasty
    600-647 Harsha’s Empire
    618 Tang dynasty
    700 ff. Spread of Islam; trans-Sahara trade in Africa
  • 500 C.E.

    500 C.E.

    c. 500 Buddhism takes root in east and southeast Asia
    c. 500 Formation of Ghana
    c.600 Beginning of Islam
    618 Tang dynasty in China; glorious culture period
    700 Shintoism unified into single nationl religion in Japan
  • 750 C.E.

    750 C.E.

    800-1300 Mississippian culture
    900 Polynesians to New Zealand
    900-120 Toltecs
    1000-Height of kingdom of Ghana, Africa