World History timeline Eli Warren By Eli Warren Period: 200,000 BCE to 35,000 BCE Neanderthals Period: 40,000 BCE to 8000 BCE Cro-Magnon 3000 BCE Narmer leads forces to conquer Lower Egypt 3000 BCE Sumerians created the wagon wheel 3000 BCE The bronze age 3000 BCE Sumerians created the sundial 3000 BCE New Sumerian Metal (Bronze) 2600 BCE King Djoser Pyramid 2500 BCE Indo-European migration 2000 BCE Hittites new metal (Iron) 1750 BCE Hammurabi's code 1237 BCE Death of Ramses 1200 BCE Moses rejecting all gods except one god, and leading his people to Canaan 1200 BCE The Iron Age 1000 BCE The Phoenicians alphabet 900 BCE The Assyrians become powerful Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE The rise of Rome 776 BCE Ancient Greek Olympics 594 BCE Solon, 2nd leader of Athens 546 BCE The Persian Wars Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE Darius I 494 BCE Plebeians refused to fight in the Roman army 470 BCE Socrates 451 BCE Rome created laws on 12 bronze tablets 415 BCE Euripides 404 BCE The Peloponnesian War ended 336 BCE Hellenic period Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE Archimedes inventing the compound pulley, cylinder screw, and many other things Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE Eratosthenes estimated the earth's circumference to within 1 percent of the correct figure Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE Hellenistic scientists develop new theories Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE Euclid writing the book "The Elements of Geometry" Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE Hellenistic period 300 BCE The Appian Way Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE The Punic Wars 100 BCE Latifundia created 100 BCE Julius Caesar Rome political leader and general. Aimed to benefit the poor by providing jobs. Period: 63 BCE to 14 Octavian Defeated Caesar's assassins and became the ruler of Rome. Period: 31 BCE to 180 Pax Romana 27 BCE Augustus in power 180 Marcus Aurelius death 191 Commodus's own troops killed him Period: 192 to 284 Rome's army fighting each other instead of defending the borders 200 Rome granted citizenship to many people Period: 300 to 400 Germanic groups invade into Rome Period: 400 to 453 The Huns invade 476 Fall of Roman Empire