Empire Timeline

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  • Period: 14,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    end of last ice age

  • Period: 9000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    first agricultral breakthroughs

    in fertile crescent along with neolithic revolution
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 2350 BCE

    mesopotamian civilization

    Sumerian
  • 3500 BCE

    emergence of nubian civilization

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 2500 BCE

    First Civilizations

    Egypt, Mesopotamia, Shang Dynasty, Indus River Valley, Norte Chico, Olmec
  • 3100 BCE

    unification of egypt

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    indo-european migrations

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    norte chico civilization

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1380 BCE

    minoan civilization

  • Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE

    old kingdom egypt

  • Period: 2350 BCE to 2150 BCE

    akkadian empire

  • Period: 2040 BCE to 1674 BCE

    middle kingdom egypt

  • 2000 BCE

    china and india first civilizations

  • 2000 BCE

    start of bantu migrations

  • 2000 BCE

    beginnings of indus valley and chinese civilizations

  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE

    babylonian empire

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    mycenaean civilization

  • Period: 1552 BCE to 1069 BCE

    new kingdom egypt

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1064 BCE

    new kingdom egypt

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 400 BCE

    olmec civilization

  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    second wave civilizations (Classical)

  • Period: 800 BCE to 300 BCE

    greek city states

  • Period: 700 BCE to 500 BCE

    axial age

    philosophy
    confucius
    buddhism
    laozi
    zorathustra
    socrates
    aristotle
    plato
  • Period: 700 BCE to 600 BCE

    Fall of Second Wave Civilizations (Classical)

  • Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE

    Persia Achaomerud

  • Period: 509 BCE to 500

    Roman Empire

  • Period: 300 BCE to 185 BCE

    Maurya Empire

  • Period: 300 BCE to 30 BCE

    ptolemaic period

    controlled by greek powers (Alexander the Great)
  • Period: 247 BCE to 224

    parthian dynasty

  • Period: 200 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty

  • Period: 224 to 651

    sassanid dynasty

  • Period: 320 to 550

    gupta empire

  • Period: 589 to 618

    sui dynasty

    bring back confucianism and civil service exams lead to well educated leaders.
    grand canal.
    food production in the south
    reunification of China after a period of disunity
  • Period: 618 to 907

    tang dynasty

    controlled silk road trade
    buddhist backlash because it focuses on good for oneself. challenged the tang beliefs of good for every one and the five relationships. buddhist monasteries didn't pay taxes
  • Period: 661 to 750

    umayyad caliphate

  • Period: 750 to 1258

    abbasid caliphate

    Sunni
  • Period: 960 to 1279

    song dynasty

    neoconfucianism
  • Period: 1271 to 1368

    yuan dynasty

  • Period: 1464 to

    songhay empire

  • mongol empire