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Period: 10,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution marked the transition in human history from small, nomadic bands of hunter gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization. -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE
Aryan Ivasion of India
Particularly the Vedic religion -
1900 BCE
Sumerian Civilization
What is Sumerian civilization known for? -
701 BCE
The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem
In 701 BC, the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib besieged the city of Jerusalem. -
Period: 599 BCE to 100 BCE
Spartan Oligarchy
Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. Sparta was an oligarchy. The state was ruled by two hereditary kings of the Agiad and Eurypontid families, -
Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)
Buddhism is most predominant in Asia -
Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE
The Persian (Achaemenid) Empire
The Persians were the first people to establish regular routes of communication between three continents—Africa, Asia and Europe. They built many new roads and developed the world's first postal service -
Period: 498 BCE to 448
The Greco-Persian
Greco-Persian Wars, also called Persian Wars, (492–449 bce), series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century. The fighting was most intense during two invasions that Persia launched against mainland Greece between 490 and 479. -
Period: 480 BCE to 480 BCE
The Battle of Thermopylae
The Persian victory at Thermopylae allowed for Xerxes' passage into southern Greece, which expanded the Persian empire even further. -
Period: 400 BCE to 461 BCE
The Celts
The Celts were a collection of tribes with origins in central Europe that shared a similar language, religious beliefs, traditions and culture. ... Their legacy remains most prominent in Ireland and Great Britain, where traces of their language and culture are still prominent today. -
Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE
Conquests of Alexander the Great
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Period: 305 BCE to 30 BCE
Ptolemaic Empire
It was founded in 305 BC by Ptolemy I Soter, a companion of Alexander the Great, and lasted until the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. ... Ptolemy, a Macedonian who was one of Alexander's most trusted generals and confidants, won control of Egypt from his rivals and declared himself pharaoh. -
Period: 300 BCE to 900
Mayan Civilization
The Mayan civilization was known for their large and unique temples and structures. -
Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Qin Dynasty
The Qin empire is known for its engineering marvels, including a complex system of over 4,000 miles of road and one superhighway, the Straight Road. -
Period: 202 BCE to 220
Han Dynasty
The Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) is known its long reign and its achievements, which included the development of the civil service and government structure. -
Period: 134 BCE to 44 BCE
The Crisis of the Roman Republic
The crisis of the Roman Republic refers to an extended period of political instability and social unrest from about 134 BC to 44 BC that culminated in the demise of the Roman Republic and the advent of the Roman Empire. -
Period: 130 BCE to 1453
The Silk Road
The Silk Road was and is a network of trade routes connecting the East and West; from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century CE. It was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions. -
Period: 69 BCE to 30 BCE
Cleopatra
Why is Cleopatra famous? While queen of Egypt (51–30 BCE), Cleopatra actively influenced Roman politics at a crucial period and was especially known for her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. She came to represent, as did no other woman of antiquity, the prototype of the romantic femme fatale. -
Period: 63 BCE to 14
Augustus Caesar
As Rome's first emperor, Octavian (Augustus Caesar) (63 B.C.–A.D. 14) is best known for initiating the Pax Romana, a largely peaceful period of two centuries in which Rome imposed order on a world long convulsed by conflict. -
Period: 26 BCE to 476
The Roman Empire
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4 BCE
Birth of Jesus Christ
Christmas -
1 CE
Traditional Date for the birth of Christ
BC stands for before christ, and AD stands for Anno Domini -
30
Crucifixion of Jesus
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Period: 149 to 146 BCE
The Third Punic War
Rome and Carthage- Rome won -
Period: 218 to 202 BCE
The second punic war
Carthage and Rome. Rome won -
Period: 264 to 241 BCE
The First Punic War
The war was between Rome and Carthage. Rome stood out. -
Period: 284 to 305
The Tetrachy
Diocletian formed the Tetrarchy as a solution to the unstable succession of Roman emperors in the third century. Originally from Dalmatia (modern Croatia), Diocletian came into full power in 285 CE and ruled the eastern half of the Empire. He established his comrade Maximian as responsible for Italy and the West. -
312
Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Some scholars allege that his main objective was to gain unanimous approval and submission to his authority from all classes, and therefore chose Christianity to conduct his political propaganda, believing that it was the most appropriate religion that could fit with the Imperial cult (see also Sol Invictus). -
Period: 320 to 543
The Gupta Empire
Gupta had developed advancements in Science, Engineering, art, dialectics, laterature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy. The golden age brought more knowledge including architects making amazing temples and structures. -
Period: 330 to 1453
The Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire was the longest-lasting medieval power, and its influence continues today, especially in the religion, art, architecture, and law of many Western states, Eastern and Central Europe, and Russia. -
Period: 431 to 405
The Peloponnesian war
The war was between Athens and Sparta. Sparta won. -
476
The Fall of Rome
For the fall of Rome, it was the Huns invading from the east that caused the domino effect, they invaded (pushed into) the Goths, who then invaded (pushed into) the Roman Empire. The fall of the Western Roman Empire is a great lesson in cause and effect. -
Period: 502 to 322 BCE
Athenian Democracy
Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives..." Democracy: "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives." Male citizens in Athens could vote on all the decisions that affected the city and serve on juries. -
Period: 510 to 27 BCE
The roman republic
Roman law. As well as the constant rivalry between patricians and plebeians, the Republic is also known as a period in which the power of Rome reached the whole peninsula of Italy and Roman law was founded with the Law of the Twelve Tables in 450 BC. -
Period: 618 to 907
Tang Dynasty
The Tang Dynasty is considered a golden age of Chinese arts and culture. In power from 618 to 906 A.D., Tang China attracted an international reputation that spilled out of its cities and, through the practice of Buddhism, spread its culture across much of Asia. -
Period: 622 to 750
The Spread of Islam
Islam spread through military conquest, trade, pilgrimage, and missionaries. Arab Muslim forces conquered vast territories and built imperial structures over time. ... The caliphate—a new Islamic political structure—evolved and became more sophisticated during the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. -
Period: 622 to 1258
The Islamic Golden Age
Scientists advanced the fields of algebra, calculus, geometry, chemistry, biology, medicine, and astronomy. Many forms of art flourished during the Islamic Golden Age, including ceramics, metalwork, textiles, illuminated manuscripts, woodwork, and calligraphy. -
Period: 768 to 899
The Carolingian Renaissance
Known as the Carolingian Renaissance, it ended the cultural stagnation of the Dark Age which had marred Europe for centuries and laid the foundation for the rise of the Western civilization. -
Period: 793 to 1066
The Viking Age
The economic model states that the Viking Age was the result of growing urbanism and trade throughout mainland Europe. As the Islamic world grew, so did its trade routes, and the wealth which moved along them was pushed further and further north. -
Period: 800 to 146 BCE
Ancient Greece
The Greeks were known for their sophisticated sculpture and architecture. -
Period: 801 to 1492
The Reconquista
The Reconquista was a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 781 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711, the expansion of the Christian kingdoms throughout Hispania, and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492. -
Period: 814 to 146 BCE
Ancient Carthage
They founded settlements throughout the Mediterranean during the first millennium B.C. Carthage, whose Phoenician name was Qart Hadasht (new city), was one of those new settlements. -
Period: 911 to 609 BCE
The Neo-Asyrian Empire
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Period: 960 to 1279
Song Dynasty
The Song dynasty is particularly noted for the great artistic achievements that it encouraged and, in part, subsidized. The Bei Song dynasty at Bianjing had begun a renewal of Buddhism and of literature and the arts. The greatest poets and painters in the empire were in attendance at court -
Period: 1066 to 1066
The Norman Conquest
The Norman elite replace that of the Anglo-Saxons and take over the country's lands, the Church was restructured, a new architecture was introduced in the form of motte and bailey castles and Romanesque cathedrals, feudalism became much more widespread. -
Period: 1100 to 200 BCE
The Phoenician Golden Age
They are famed for their commercial and maritime prowess and are recognised as having established harbours, trading posts and settlements throughout the Mediterranean basin. -
Period: 1200 to 1150 BCE
Bronze-age collapse
Is the fall of a complex society to the hands of nature, opposing civilizations or too large of an expansion. -
Period: 1235 to
The Mali Empire
The religion of Islam was an important part of the Mali Empire. However, even though the kings, or Mansas, had converted to Islam, they did not force their subjects to convert. Many people practiced a version of Islam that combined Islamic beliefs with the local traditions. -
Period: 1325 to 1521
Aztec Empire
The Aztecs were famous for their agriculture, cultivating and available land, introducing irrigation, draining swamps and creating artificial islands in the lakes -
Period: 1346 to 1353
The Black Death
It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, but it may also cause septicaemic or pneumonic plagues. -
Period: 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644 A.D., during which China's population would double. Known for its trade expansion to the outside world that established cultural ties with the West, the Ming Dynasty is also remembered for its drama, literature and world-renowned porcelain. -
Period: 1438 to 1533
The Inca Empire
Famed for their unique art and architecture, they constructed finely-built and imposing buildings wherever they conquered, and their spectacular adaptation of natural landscapes with terracing, highways, and mountaintop settlements continues to impress modern visitors at such world famous sites as Machu Picchu. -
Period: to 1600 BCE
Old Babylonian Period
Nebuchadnezzar II is known as the greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia. He conquered Syria and Palestine and made Babylon a splendid city. -
Period: to 323 BCE
Ancient Egypt
The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians include the quarrying, surveying and construction techniques that supported the building of monumental pyramids, temples, and obelisks; a system of mathematics. -
Period: to 1300 BCE
Harappan Civilization
The Indus River Valley Civilization, also known as Harappan civilization, developed the first accurate system of standardized weights and measures