World History

Agricultural revolution

6000 BCE

The progressive development of agriculture and pastoralism, which allowed gradually to move from a situation of appropriation of nature to one of production, is known as the agricultural revolution.

Indus Valley Civilization

6000 BCE

Thousands of years ago, in the fertile valley of the great Indus River, a civilization emerged in what are now India and Pakistan.

Buddha and Ashoka

3300 BCE

Buddhism is one of the oldest religions in history and is currently the fifth most practiced in India and the fourth worldwide.

Ancient Egypt

3150 BCE

It developed in the valley formed by the Nile River, located in the northeast corner of Africa. The Nile River runs through the territory from south to north, making agriculture, livestock and navigation prosper.

Mesopotamia

3000 BCE

The Mesopotamian civilization was geographically located in the territories that crossed the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
During this civilization temples and cities were built for the first time. Metal was also learned to work and writing arose.

Chiese 2000

2000 BCE

The Chinese civilization began in the north, along the Yellow River valley. Archaeological excavations show two types of ceramics: Painted Ceramics and Black Ceramics, which indicate two distinct cultural groups, the Yangshao and the Lungshan

The Darle Ages

1200 BCE

Stage of the history of Greece between the end of the Mycenaean civilization (1200 BC) and the beginning of the Archaic Age (8th century BC).
The Dark Ages have been interpreted as a stage of recession and major changes in the Aegean world. It has also been considered as the stage in which the Greek people formed.

Rome

753 BCE

Rome was founded in 753 B.C. in the commercial passage "Tiber Pass" by the Romulus and Remus brothers, at the beginning of this Roman civilization, it was a small community that bases its economy on agriculture.

The Persians & Greeks

499 BCE

The Medical Wars is the name that requested a series of conflicts that confronted the Achaemenid or Persian Empire with a confederation of Greek polis between 499 and 449 BC. C. The fundamental problem that gave rise to this war was the expansionist desires of the Persian Empire that conquered territories on the Anatolian peninsula until it reached Ionia.

Alexander the great

336 BCE

He was the king of Macedonia since 336 BC. C. until his death in 323 a. C.
He was one of the best military strategists in history. He created one of the greatest empires of the ancient world, spanning from present-day Greece to India.

The silk road

1 CE

The Silk Road is the name that has been given to trade routes that were intended to unite China with the Roman Empire. New products for the Chinese were introduced through merchants, products such as nuts, figs, cucumbers, alfalfa and pomegranate, as well as new skills to use grapes to make wines.

Christianity

1 CE

Christianity arose from Judaism.
Primitive Christianity and early Rabbinic Judaism were influenced by Hellenistic religion and philosophy. Christianity, in particular, inherited many characteristics of Greco-Roman paganism in its structure, its terminology, its cult and its theology.

The fall of Rome

476

The glorious history of the Western Roman Empire came to an end in, when Odoacro, a barbarian leader, dismissed the young emperor Romulus Augustus and assumed the government of Italy
It refers to the loss of its western part in 476 AD, but that was not the end of the Roman Empire, as the Eastern Roman Empire (called the Byzantine Empire) lasted until the fall of Constantinople (Byzantium) at the hands of the Turkish Empire in 1453.

Islam

610

The origin of Islam dates back to Saudi Arabia in the seventh century. Therefore, Islam is the youngest of the world's great religions. The Prophet Muhammad (circa 570-632 AD) introduced Islam in 610 AD, after experiencing what he called an angelic visit. Muhammad dictated the Quran, the holy book of Islam, which Muslims consider to be the perfect and pre-existing words of Allah.

The Crusades

1095

The Crusades are the warrior expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Western Europe, between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, to recover the Holy Places, where Jesus lived, from the Turks.
In the eleventh century, after being subject to invasions, Europe became an invader, thus began a great migration movement whose main objective was to recover the city of Jerusalem, which had fallen into the hands of the Seljuk Turks, who were Muslims.

The Mongols

1206

They were nomadic horsemen tribes of the steppes of Central Asia, their place of origin coincides approximately today with the Republic of Mongolia and the southern fringes of Siberia. In the thirteenth century, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, they carried out an expansion movement of such magnitude that the Mongol empire spread from China in the east, to Russia and the Islamic empire in the west.

Russia, the Kievan Tus, and the Mongols

1223

The Mongol invasion of the Rus of Kiev refers to the invasion of the Mongol Empire initiated by the army under the command of Subotai, who in the battle of the Kalka river in 1223 faced the forces of several princes of the Rus of Kiev. Fifteen years later, Batú Kan carried out a large-scale invasion between 1237 and 1240. The occupation precipitated the fragmentation of the Rus of Kiev and influenced the development of the subsequent history of the eastern Slavic states.

The Renaissance

1400

The Renaissance is a cultural movement that arises in Italy around 1400. It marks the leap from the Medieval era to the Modern Age and brings with it a great cultural transformation, not only of the arts, but also of the sciences, of the letters and of the ways of thinking. The essential features are the rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman culture, Humanism and anthropocentrism.

Columbus, Gamma, and Zheng He.

1492

Zheng He was a captain of Chinese ships. China didn't need something, but they turned around to show that China is the coolest and strongest country.
De Gama was the first European man to arrive in India by sea. This resulted in greater commercial momentum with India and Europe.
Christopher Columbus, the famous man who found America.

The Columbian Exchange

1492

It was the exchange of plants, animals and diseases between Afro-Eurasia (Africa, Europe, and Asia) and Americas. The exchange was set in 1492. That year, the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus sailed west from Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean, to the region of Caribbean.

The Spanish Empire

1492

The Spanish Empire in America was born as a result of the travels of Christopher Columbus and his discovery of a New World for the Crown of Castile. The kings understood the importance of these territories and promoted new trips along the coast, the interior of the new continent and the islands of the Pacific Ocean.
In America, the most important government institutions were the viceroyalties, the audiences and the cabildos.

The Atlantic slave trade

1502

The vast majority of slaves involved in Atlantic traffic were Africans from the central and western areas of the continent, mostly prisoners of wars between rival ethnic groups that were sold by African slave traders to European buyers, who transported them to their colonies in North and South America. There, slaves were forced to work in coffee, sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations, in gold and silver mines, in rice fields, in shipbuilding and in homes as servants.

Indian Ocean trade

1602

The most important economic function is the transport of goods. The Europeans, following the ancient explorers, came to the East and returned with silks, blinds, tea, and specifically. The Indian Ocean is also important for the transportation of oil from Southeast Asia to the western countries. Oil is the most significant resource in the area, extracted mainly from the Persian Gulf.

Venice and the Ottoman Empire

1645

The Ottomans contacted Venice from the 1350s, signed trade agreements with the Venetians, and trade in the Mediterranean developed through friendly relations. But these ties did not always continue in an atmosphere of peace. Sometimes battles occurred between the two states.
One of the most important events of the 17th century due to Ottoman and European history is the Ottoman-Venetian war that arose on the island of Crete

The seven years war

1756

This conflict originates when the Austrian Empire decides for economic interests to recover the territory of Silesia, which was in the hands of Prussia after the war of Austrian succession. The kingdom of Prussia decides to anticipate this attack by invading surrounding territories, in order to protect itself from impending attacks.
The territorial dispute, added to the colonial and international interests between Great Britain and France, unleashed a series of war conflicts.