History of Ideas

  • Period: 2686 BCE to 2181 BCE

    Egypt - Old Kingdom

  • Period: 2600 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Indus Valley Civilization

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 605 BCE

    Assyria

  • Period: 2334 BCE to 2154 BCE

    Babylonia

  • Period: 2055 BCE to 1650 BCE

    Egypt - Middle Kingdom

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1178 BCE

    Hittites

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1077 BCE

    Egypt - New Kingdom

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1155 BCE

    Kassites

  • Period: 1400 BCE to 350 BCE

    Olmec Civilization

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 539 BCE

    Phoenicia

  • Period: 1185 BCE to 547 BCE

    Kingdom of Lydia

  • Period: 1070 BCE to 350

    Kingdom of Kush

  • Period: 940 BCE to 556 BCE

    Chaldean Empire

  • Period: 814 BCE to 146 BCE

    Carthage

  • Period: 800 BCE to 600

    Greece

  • Period: 678 BCE to 546 BCE

    Median Empire

  • Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE

    Neo-Babylonian Empire

  • 625 BCE

    Thales

    Thales
  • 580 BCE

    Pythagoras

    Pythagoras
  • Period: 550 BCE to 651

    Persia

  • 525 BCE

    Aeschylus

    Aeschylus
  • Period: 509 BCE to 1453

    Rome

  • 496 BCE

    Sophocles

    Sophocles
  • 484 BCE

    Euripedes

    Euripedes
  • 480 BCE

    Herodotus

    Herodotus
  • 470 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates
  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
  • 460 BCE

    Thucydides

    Thucydides
  • 451 BCE

    confucius

    confucius
  • 450 BCE

    Twelve Tables Codified

    Twelve Tables Codified
  • 450 BCE

    Siddhartha Gautama Boeddha

    Siddhartha Gautama Boeddha
  • 427 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
  • 387 BCE

    Plato's Academy

    Plato's Academy
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
  • 356 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great
  • 341 BCE

    Epicurus

    Epicurus
  • 335 BCE

    Zeno The Stoic

    Zeno The Stoic
  • 335 BCE

    Aristotle Academy

    Aristotle Academy
  • Period: 322 BCE to 185 BCE

    Maurya Empire

  • 312 BCE

    First Roman Roads

    First Roman Roads
  • 300 BCE

    Elements of Geometry

    Elements of Geometry
  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    The Punic Wars

  • Period: 221 BCE to

    Imperial China

  • 220 BCE

    Great Wall of China Complete

    Great Wall of China Complete
  • Period: 209 BCE to 93

    Xiongu

  • 106 BCE

    Cicero

    Cicero
  • 95 BCE

    Lucretius

    Lucretius
  • 4 BCE

    Seneca

    Seneca
  • 1 CE

    Jesus Christ

    Jesus Christ
  • 5

    the Apostle Paul

    the Apostle Paul
  • 33

    Death and Resurrection of Jesus

    Death and Resurrection of Jesus
  • 56

    Tacitus

    Tacitus
  • Period: 100 to 940

    Aksum Kingdom

  • Period: 200 to 900

    Teuchitlan Civilization

  • Period: 224 to 651

    Sasanian Empire

  • Period: 250 to 950

    Mayan Empire

  • 280

    Constantine

    Constantine
  • Period: 330 to 1204

    Byzantine Empire

  • 354

    Augustine

    Augustine
  • 480

    Boethius

    Boethius
  • Period: 481 to 843

    Frankish Empire

  • Period: 496 to 1122

    Toltec Empire

  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • 571

    Mohammed

    Mohammed
  • Period: 600 to 1500

    Pre-Islamic Indonesia

  • Period: 600 to 700

    Rise of Islam

  • Period: 660 to

    Imperial House of Japan

  • Period: 676 to

    Unified Korea

  • Period: 700 to 1521

    Zapotec Civilization

  • Period: 734 to

    Mewar Kingdom

  • 800

    Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Holy Roman Empire

    Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Holy Roman Empire
  • Period: 830 to 1240

    Wagadou Empire

  • 980

    Avicenna

    Avicenna
  • 1000

    Chinese Invent Gunpowder

    Chinese Invent Gunpowder
  • Period: 1060 to

    Berber and Arab Dynasty

  • 1079

    Peter Abelard

    Peter Abelard
  • Period: 1206 to

    Mongol Empire

  • 1224

    Thomas Aquinas

    Thomas Aquinas
  • Period: 1230 to

    Mali Empire

  • Period: 1238 to

    Siam

  • 1265

    Dante Alighieri

    Dante Alighieri
  • Period: 1270 to

    Ethiopia (Solomonic Dynasty)

  • Period: 1299 to

    Ottomon Empire

  • Period: 1346 to 1353

    Black Death

  • 1400

    Johanness Gutenburg

    Johanness Gutenburg
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1421 to 1521

    Aztec Empire

  • Period: 1438 to 1533

    Inca Empire

  • 1450

    Gutenburg's Printing Press

    Gutenburg's Printing Press
  • 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
  • 1463

    Pico della Mirandola

    Pico della Mirandola
  • Period: 1464 to

    Songhai Empire

  • 1466

    Erasmus

    Erasmus
  • 1473

    Copernicus

    Copernicus
  • Period: 1474 to

    Spanish Empire

  • 1492

    Columbus discovered the Americas

    Columbus discovered the Americas
  • 1493

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther
  • Period: 1500 to

    Reformation

  • 1517

    Martin Luther Nails 99 Theses

    Martin Luther Nails 99 Theses
  • Period: 1526 to

    Austrian Empire

  • 1547

    Cervantes

    Cervantes
  • 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
  • 1564

    Galileo

    Galileo
  • 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
  • Period: to

    British Empire

  • Descartes

    Descartes
  • John Locke

    John Locke
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
  • Period: to

    Ashanti Empire

  • Period: to

    Russian Empire

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Period: to

    French Empire

  • Darwin

    Darwin
  • Karl Marx

    Karl Marx
  • First Photography

    First Photography
  • Mendeleyev

    Mendeleyev
  • Maxim

    Maxim
  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
  • Period: to

    Modernism

  • Freud

    Freud
  • Vladimir Lenin

    Vladimir Lenin
  • Telephone invented

    Telephone invented
  • Einstein

    Einstein
  • Alexander Fleming

    Alexander Fleming
  • Picasso

    Picasso
  • Georges Braque

    Georges Braque
  • Lemaitre

    Lemaitre
  • C.S. Lewis

    C.S. Lewis
  • Period: to

    World War 1

  • Period: to

    World War II