• Period: 250,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic (early Stone Age)

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    Mesolithic (middle Stone Age)

  • Period: 8000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Neolithic (late Stone Age)

  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Cooper Age

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 539 BCE

    Mesopotamia (Sumerians)

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE

    Indus Valley

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 332 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Ancient china

  • 1800 BCE

    Judaism

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 500 BCE

    Proto-Celtic and Hallstatt

  • Period: 1070 BCE to 350 BCE

    Kush

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 300 BCE

    Nok culture

  • Period: 911 BCE to 609 BCE

    Assyrian

  • Period: 509 BCE to 27

    Roman republic

  • Period: 480 BCE to 404 BCE

    Golden age Athens

  • 400 BCE

    Buddhism

  • Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE

    Empire of Alexander the Great

  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenism

  • Period: 27 BCE to 476

    Western Roman Empire

  • 1 CE

    Christianity

  • Period: 250 to

    Maya

  • Period: 330 to 1453

    Byzantine empire

  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Catholic Church (political economic power)

  • 610

    Islam

  • Period: 800 to 1400

    Feudal system

  • Period: 1000 to 1200

    Romanesque art

  • Period: 1100 to 1500

    Gothic art

  • Period: 1325 to 1521

    Aztec

  • Period: 1438 to 1533

    Inca