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  • Period: 200,000 BCE to 30,000 BCE

    Early evolution of Neanderthal peoples

  • Period: 13,500 BCE to 10,500 BCE

    Natufian Society

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    Early experimentation with agriculture

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Jomon Society

  • 8000 BCE

    Appearance of agricultural villages

  • Period: 8000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    Beginnings of agriculture in south Asia

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Appearance of cities

  • Period: 3200 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Era of Sumerian dominance in Mesopotamia

  • 3100 BCE

    Unification of Egypt

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 2660 BCE

    Archaic Period of Egyptian history

  • Period: 3000 BCE to

    Chinook Society

  • Period: 3000 BCE to Dec 14, 1000

    Era of Indo-European Migrations

  • Period: 2660 BCE to 2160 BCE

    Egyptian Old Kingdom

  • Period: 2600 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Era of pyramid building in Egypt

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE

    High point of Harappan society

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Early kingdom of Kush with capital at Kerma

  • Period: 2350 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Era of Babylonian dominance in Mesopotamia

  • Period: 2334 BCE to 2315 BCE

    Reign of Sargon of Akkad

  • Period: 2200 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Minoan Society

  • 1900 BCE

    Beginning of Harappan decline

  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Reign of Hammurabi

  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Era of Hittite dominance in Anatolia

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Mycenaean Society

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE

    Egyptian New Kingdom

  • 1500 BCE

    Beginning of Aryan migration to India

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Vedic age

  • Period: 1400 BCE to 900 BCE

    Composition of the Rig Veda

  • 1000 BCE

    Early Aryan Migrations to the Ganges River Valley

  • 1000 BCE

    Emergence of varna distinctions

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 612 BCE

    Era of Assyrian dominance in Mesopotamia

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 970 BCE

    Reign of Israelite King David

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE

    Formation of regional kingdoms in northern India

  • Period: 970 BCE to 930 BCE

    Reign of Israelite King Solomon

  • 900 BCE

    Invention of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Period: 800 BCE to 338 BCE

    Era of the classical Greek polis

  • 760 BCE

    Conquest of Egypt by King Kasha of Kush

  • 753 BCE

    Founding of Rome, according to tradition

  • 750 BCE

    Establishment of first Aryan cities in the Ganges valley

  • 722 BCE

    Assyrian conquest of kingdom of Israel

  • Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE

    Reign of Nebuchadnezzar

  • Period: 600 BCE to 550 BCE

    New Babylonian Empire

  • 586 BCE

    New Babylonian conquest of kingdom of Judah

  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucius

  • Period: 540 BCE to 468 BCE

    Life of Vardhamana Mahavira

  • 520 BCE

    Invasion of India by Darius of Persia

  • 509 BCE

    Establishment of Roman Republic

  • 500 BCE

    Early Aryan migrations to Deccan Plateau

  • Period: 500 BCE to 479 BCE

    Persian Wars

  • 490 BCE

    Darius' invasion of Greece

  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

  • 480 BCE

    Xerxes' invasion of Greece

  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

  • 479 BCE

    Battle of Platea

  • Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE

    Life of Socrates

  • Period: 443 BCE to 429 BCE

    Pericles' leadership in Athens

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

  • Period: 430 BCE to 347 BCE

    Life of Plato

  • Period: 403 BCE to 221 BCE

    Period of the Warring States

  • Period: 390 BCE to 338 BCE

    Shang Yang

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Life of Aristotle

  • Period: 372 BCE to 289 BCE

    Mencius

  • Period: 359 BCE to 336 BCE

    Reign of Phillip II of Macedon

  • Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE

    Reign of Alexander of Macedon

  • Period: 321 BCE to 185 BCE

    Mauryan Dynasty

  • Period: 321 BCE to 297 BCE

    Reign of Chandragupta Maurya

  • Period: 298 BCE to 238 BCE

    Xunzi

  • Period: 280 BCE to 233 BCE

    Han Feizi

  • Period: 268 BCE to 232 BCE

    Reign of Ashoka Maurya

  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    Roman expansion into Mediterranean basin

  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

  • Period: 206 BCE to 9

    Early Han Dynasty

  • Period: 182 BCE to 1 CE

    Bactrian Rule in northern India

  • Period: 139 BCE to 126 BCE

    Travels of Zhang Qian to central Asia

  • Period: 106 BCE to 43 BCE

    Life of Marcus Tulles Cicero

  • Period: 46 BCE to 44 BCE

    Rule of Gaius Ceasar as dictator

  • Period: 31 BCE to 14

    Rule of Augustus

  • Period: 4 BCE to 30

    Life of Jesus of Nazareth

  • 3 BCE

    Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism to southeast Asia

  • 2 BCE

    Introduction of Buddhism to central Asia

  • 1 BCE

    Civil War in Rome

  • 1 BCE

    Introduction of Buddhism to China

  • 1 CE

    Life of Paul of Tarsus

  • Period: 1 CE to 270

    Kushan empire in northern India and central Asia

  • 2

    Spread of Christianity in the Mediterranean basin and southwest Asia

  • Period: 9 to 220

    Reign of Han Wudi

  • Period: 25 to 220

    Later Han Dynasty

  • Period: 127 to 153

    Reign of Kushan emperor Kanishka

  • 184

    Yellow Turban Rebellion

  • Period: 216 to 272

    Life of Mani

  • 220

    Collapse of the Han Dynasty

  • Period: 284 to 305

    Reign of Diocletian

  • 313

    Edict of Milan and the legalization of Christianity in the Roman empire

  • Period: 313 to 337

    Reign of Constantine

  • Period: 320 to 550

    Gupta Dynasty

  • 476

    Collapse of the western Roman empire