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2.5 million BCE
2.5 Million - Emergence of Homo Sapiens in eastern Africa -
1.25 Million BCE
1 Million - Emergence of Homo erectus, an upright , tool using human
600,000 - Wide spread of human sepcies across Asia, Europe, Africa; control of fire. -
150,000 BCE
120,000 - Emergence of Homo sapiens sapines, which displaces other human species -
30,000 BCE
30,000 - 25,000 - Passage of first people to Americas
15,000 - 12,000 - Domesticaiton of dogs -
10,000 BCE
8,500 - 6,500 Domesticaiton of sheep, pigs, goats, cattle
8,500 - 3,000 Neolithic Age development of farming in Middle East -
8,000 BCE
7,000 First town at Jericho -
6,000 BCE
5,600 Beans domesticated in Western Hemisphere -
5,000 BCE
5,000 - Domestication of maize
5,000 - 2,000 Yanshao culture in north China -
5,000 BCE
5,000 - Early Japanese Settlement -
4,000 BCE
4,000 - 3,000 Development of writing, bronze metalworking, wheel, plow in Middle East
3,500 - 1,800 Sumerian Civilization
3,100 - 1,087 Founding and flowering of Egyptian civilization
2,500 - 1,500 Indus civilization in south Asia -
2,000 BCE
2,000 Germans settle in Denmark
1,200 - 700 Vedas composed
1,500 - 500 Polynesian migrations
1,122 - 770 Initial Zhou kingdom -
2,000 BCE
1,700 IndoEuropean Invasions of Greek peninsula
1,400 Kingdom of Mycenae; Trojan War -
2,000 BCE
1,850 Origins of Shang kingdom in China
1,800 Formation of Babylonian Empire in Middle East
1,700 - 1,300 Rise of village culture in Mesoamerica
1,600 Beginning of IndoEuropean invasions of India and parts of the Mediterranean and Middle East
1,600 Spread of civilization to Crete ( Minoan)
1,250 Moses and Jewish exodus from Egypt -
1,600 BCE
1,600 - 1,000 Aryan invasions of India
1,500 - 1,000 Vedic Age -
1,200 BCE
1029 -258 Zhou dynasty; introduction of a standard spoken language
551-478 Life of Confucius -
1,200 BCE
1,200 - 700 Sacred Vedas composed
1,000 - 600 Epic Age: Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Upanishads composed -
1,000 BCE
1,000 - Germans expand southward
900 - Maya begins
850 - 250 - Chavin culture ( Andes)
800 - Rise of Greek city-states
800 - 1000 - Bantu migration, sub-Saharan Africa
770 - 403 Later Zhou kingdom; beginning of China's classical period -
1,000 BCE
800 - 600 Rise of Greek city-states; Athens and Sparta become dominant
700 Homerian epics Illiad, Odyssey; flowing of Greek architecture
550 Cyrus the Great forms Persian Empire
509 Beginnings of Roman Republic -
1,000 BCE
1,000 Polynesians reach Fiji, Samoa
1,000 Independent kingdom of Kush
800 - 400 Spread of Olmec civilization; cultivation of maize, potatoes; domestication of turkeys, dogs
300 Rise of Axum -
750 BCE
750 - 600 Meroe ( Kush ) rules Egypt
600 - Zoroastrian religion in Iran
600 - Legendary ruler in Japan
551- 233 Periods of the great Chinese philosophers: Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Legalists
550 - Formation of Persian Empire
542 - 483 Buddha -
750 BCE
700 - 550 Era of unrivaled brahman dominance
563 - 483 Life of Buddha -
500 BCE
500 - 449 Greek wars with Persia; Persia defeated
500 - 450 Beginnings of Roman Republic
470 - 430 Height of Athenian culture; Socrates and Greek philiophical style
431 Peloponnesian Wars; decline of Greece
330 Alexander the Great
327 - 325 Alexander's invasion
322 - 185 Mauryan Empire
300 - 100 Hellenistic Period
300 - 900 c.e. Heights of Maya
264 - 140 Roman expansion in North Africa (Punic wars) and eastern Mediterranean -
500 BCE
500 Laozi and Daoism
500 Editing of the Five Classics
450 Development of Chinese calender
402 - 201 Era of the Warring States -
500 BCE
327 - 325 Alexander the Great invades India
322 - 298 Chandragupta Maurya rules
269 - 232 Reign of Ashoka -
500 BCE
470 - 430 Athens at its height; Pericles, Pdidias, Sophocles, Socrates
450 Twelve Tables of Law
431 - 404 Peloponnessian Wars
359 - 336 Phillip II of Macedonia
338 - 323 Macedonian Empire, Alexander the Great
300 - 100 Hellenstic period
264 - 146 Punic Wars -
250 BCE
221 Shi Huangdi proclaimed first emperor of China
202 - 9 ce Initial Han dynasty; key technical developments of horse collar and water mill
200 - 200 ce Greater Buddhist influence
133 Decline of Roman republic
100 Germans begin contact with Rome; Slavs migrate into Eastern Europe -
250 BCE
221 - 202 Qin dynasty: the First Emperor, the Great Wall begun, a single basic language
202 - 220 ce Han dynasty
200 Introduction of ox-drawn plow, horse collar water mill
141 - 87 Reign of Han Wu Ti, incresed bureaucracy; examinations, spread of Confucianism -
250 BCE
200 - 200 ce Period of greatest Buddhist influence -
250 BCE
49 Julius Caesar becomes dictator in Rome; assinated in 44
27 Augustus Caesar seizes power; rise of Roman Empire
4 ce Birth of Jesus -
1 CE
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
220 Last Han emperor deposed -
1 CE
319 Gupta Empire founded; one of the world's first unversities establish
535 Gupta Empire overturned by the Huns -
1 CE
30 ce Crucifixion of Jesus
63 Forced dissolution of independent Jewish state by Romans
101 - 106 Greatests spread of Roman territory
180 Death of Marcus Aurelius; beginning of decline of Roman Empire -
1 CE
100 Root crops introduced to southern Africa through trade
100 Beginnings of decline of Han dynasty
180 Rome begins to decline
200 Extensive agriculutre practiced in Japan
227 Beginning of Sassanid Empire In Persia -
250 CE
300 Decline of Meroe
300 Spread of Buddhism
300 - 400 Yamato claim imperial control of Japan
300 - 700 Rise of Axum; conversion of Christianity
300 - 900 Intemediate Horizon period (Andes)
300 - 1,000 Second wave of Polynesian migrations of Hawaii
312 - 337 Constantine; formation of Eastern Empire; adoption of Christianity
319 - 540 Gupta Empire
400 Chinese script imported
401 Large-scale Germanic invasions in Roman Empire -
250 CE
313 Constantine adopts Christianity
476 Fall of Rome -
250 CE
284 - 305 Reign of Diocletian
300 - Ethiopia adopts Christianity
312 - 337 Reign of Constantine
370 - 480 Nomadic invasions of western Europe
400 Growth of Mayan Civilization
400 Polynesians reach Hawaii
450 Huns begin to invade India
476 Collapse of Rome -
500 CE
451 First Han invasion
476 Late Roman emperor in West
527 - 565 Justinian Eastern emperor
580 Spread of Buddhism in Japan
589 - 618 Sui dynasty
600 - 647 Harsha's empire
618 Tang dynasty
700 Spread of Islam; trans-Sahara trade in Africa -
500 CE
500 Buddhism takes root in east and southeast Asia
500 Formation of Ghana
600 Beginning of Islam
618 Tang dynasty in China: glorious cultural period
700 Shintoism unified into single national religion in Japan -
750 CE
800 -1,300 Mississippian culture
900 Polnesians to New Zealand
900 - 1,200 Toltecs
1,000 Height of kingdom of Ghana, Africa
