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History of Civilization: Story Map Timeline

By reagan.wright
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 550 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    Mesopotamia is the region between Euphrates and Tigris River. This civilization is the earliest civilization in world history.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 550 BCE

    Egypt

    Egypt is a country in North Africa, on the Mediterranean Sea, and is home to one of the oldest civilizations on earth. Egypt thrived for thousands of years and was none for their great advances in things such as technology and religion.
  • Period: 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Indus River Valley Civilization

    The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile flood plain of the Indus River and its vicinity. Little is understood about the Indus script, and as a result, little is known about the Indus River Valley Civilization’s institutions and systems of governance.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 500

    Early Chinese Civilization

    The Yellow River region is where the earliest dynasties were based in this Chinese civilization. It was from here where Chinese civilizations spread from, the heart of china, the Yellow river region.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Eastern Mediterranean Civilization

    The Minoan civilization was the first of high centre in that area. By about 1580 BC Minoan civilization began to spread across the Aegean to neighbouring islands and to the mainland of Greece.
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Vedic Age

    The Vedic Age is the “heroic age” of ancient Indian civilization. It is also the formative period when the basic foundations of Indian civilization were laid down. These include the emergence of early Hinduism as the foundational religion of India, and the social/religious phenomenon known as caste.
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 100

    Mesoamerica

    Meso' means 'middle', and these Mesoamerican cultures are the early advanced civilizations of Mexico and Central America. There were many unique groups inhabiting this region over time.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 100

    Early Andean Civilization

    This area is what is now north central Peru. In this early Andean civilization it was argued that it is the oldest known civilization in the Americas, but others have claimed that there is too little evidence of the political, economic, and religious structures to definitively claim the Caral society was truly a civilization.
  • Period: 618 BCE to 673 BCE

    China: Tang Dynasty

    During this time, The Tang Dynasty, this was the most wonderful time in Chinese history. The economy flourished, the social order was stable, and corruption never existed in china during this time.
  • Period: 550 BCE to 651

    Persia

    The first Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great around 550 B.C., became one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Europe’s Balkan Peninsula in the West to India’s Indus Valley in the East. This empire soon became the worlds first superpower.
  • Period: 509 BCE to 1453

    Roman Empire

    The Roman Empire started when Augustus Caesar became the first emperor of Rome and ended, in the west, when the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the Germanic King Odoacer. In the east, it continued as the Byzantine Empire until the death of Constantine XI and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
  • Period: 330 to 1204

    Byzantine Empire

    The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire and it survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Eventually Byzantium fell to the Ottoman Turks.
  • Period: 793 to 1066

    Western Europe

    In A.D. 793, an attack on the Lindisfarne monastery off the coast of Northumberland in northeastern England marked the beginning of the Viking Age. The vikings at this time had traveled farther than any other European had gone before.
  • Period: 830 to 1240

    African Civilizations

    The African empires started from around 830 AD and began to flourish. There was widespread civilization more than 40 notable size civilizations.
  • Period: 1206 to

    Japanese Civilization

    The Japanese civilization started around 1206 AD and started to create their civilization. The Japanese borrowed and adapted four important elements of Chinese civilization at this time: Buddhism; a centralized, imperial state; Confucian ethical and political thought; and the Chinese writing system.