-
3500 BCE
Mesopotamia
Sumerian city-states founded -
3200 BCE
Egypt
Upper and Lower Egypt united by Menes -
3000 BCE
Phoenicia
Syria and Palestine settled -
3000 BCE
Minoan/Mycenaean
Crete settled -
2600 BCE
Maya
Settlement of Yucatan -
2400 BCE
India
Settlement of Indus Valley -
1500 BCE
China
Shang Dynasty founded -
1450 BCE
Minoan/Mycenaean
Mycenaean conquest -
800 BCE
Etruscan
Fortress towns were built -
753 BCE
Rome
Founding of Rome -
750 BCE
Greece
Colonies founded -
546 BCE
Persia
Cyrus the Great founds empire -
539 BCE
Mesopotamia
Persian conquest -
323 BCE
Phoenicia
Alexander the Great conquest -
200 BCE
Etruscan
Roman conquest -
130 BCE
Greece
Roman conquest -
30 BCE
Egypt
Roman conquest -
220
China
Han Dynasty deposed -
476
Rome
Fall of Rome -
530
India
Fall of the Gupta Empire -
641
Persia
Arab conquest -
987
Maya
Invasion from the west (Mexico)