Timeline

Neolithic Revolution

10,000 BCE

First agricultural revolution. It was a gradual change from nomadic hunting and gathering communities and bands to agriculture and settlement. This period is a revolution because it changed the way of life of communities which made the change.

Babylon and Hammurabi's Code

1754 BCE

The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and finished written legal "laws," proclaimed by the king of Babylon, Hammurabi. Hammurabi expanded Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia.

Ancient Greece

800 BCE

Ancient Greece was a civilization in a period of Greek history from the Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Ancient Greek included architecture, philosophers, representative democracy and more.

Ancient Rome

753 BCE

Ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, including the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western part of empire.

Middle Ages

500

The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period.