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3000 BCE
Egyptian Civilization (3000 BC - 330 BC)
The First Intermediate Period (3000 BC - 2000 BC)
The Middle Kingdom (2000 BC - 1800 BC)
The Second Intermediate Period (1800 BC - 1600 BC)
The New Kingdom (1600 BC - 1200 BC)
The Egyptian Captivity (1200 BC - 900 BC)
The Late Period (900 BC - 330 BC) -
3000 BCE
Settled Agriculture (3000 BC)
The earliest humans hunted and gathered their food. But by this time people started to grow their food and started moving to places suitable for farming. After learning how to grow their food, people had stable food supply.
Shelters were made close to food supply and by time people came together and started forming communities. Expanding agriculture resulted in large communities.
Egyptians were blessed to have Nile as it helped them to naturally irrigate the crops. -
2500 BCE
Urban Society (2500 BC - 400 AD)
Primary Urban Societies in Western Asia (2500 BC -2000 BC)
Sumerian city-states (2500 BC)
Old Kingdom Egypt ( 2500 BC - 2300 BC)
Primary Urban Society in Africa (2000 BC)
Primary Urban Society in India (1800 BC)
Primary Urban Society in China (1500 BC - 1000 BC)
Primary Urban Society in Central America (900 BC - 400 AD) -
2000 BCE
Mesopotamian Empire ( 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
Old Babylonian Civilization Hammurabi, Abraham (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
Disorder in Mesopotamia (1600 BC-1200 BC)
The Middle and New Assyrian Empire (1200 BC - 612 BC)
The New Babylonian Empire (612 BC - 539 BC)
The Babylonian Captivity (586 BC -539 BC) -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greece (1200 BC - 200 BC)
The Indo-European invasion (1200 BC)
The Dark Age (1100 BC - 800 BC)
The Pre-Classical Age (700 BC - 500 BC)
The Birth of Athenian Democracy (510 BC)
The Persian Wars (490 BC - 480 BC)
The Classical Age Pericles, Parthenon, Philosophy, Drama (480 BC - 430 BC)
Alexander the Great (340 BC - 325 BC)
The Hellenistic Age (300 BC - 200 BC) -
750 BCE
Ancient Rome (750 BC - 480 AD)
Romulus founds the city of Rome (750 BC)
The Founding of the Roman Republic Age of Patriotism (510 BC)
The Punic Wars (264 BC - 240 BC)
Rome conquers the Mediterranean world (200 BC - 30 BC)
Augustus rules as Roman Emperor (30 BC)
The Battle of Actium (30 BC)
The Roman Empire (30 BC - 480 AD)
St. Paul, The Gospels, The Gnostics (120 AD -138 AD)
Constantine founds Constantinople - (330 AD) -
600 BCE
Hebrew Civilization (585 BC - 70 AD)
The Age of the Patriarchs (1800 BC - 1200 BC)
The Age of the Judges (1200 BC - 1000 BC)
The United Kingdom Saul, David, Solomon (1000 BC - 920 BC)
The Period of the Two Kingdoms (920 BC - 586 BC)
The Fall of Israel to the Assyrians (712 BC)
The Babylonian Captivity (586 BC-539 BC)
The Fall of Jerusalem (586 BC) -
500
Early Middle Ages (500 AD-1000 AD)
The “Fall of Rome” (500 AD)
Barbarian Invasions ( 550 AD - 570 AD)
Justinian rules the Byzantine Empire (527 AD - 565 AD)
The Dark Age in Western Europe (500 AD - 750 AD) -
1000
High Middle Ages (1000 AD - 1300 AD)
The Rise of the Medieval Papacy Cathedrals, Chivalry (1000 AD -1100 AD)
The First Crusade (1096 AD -1100 AD)
The Sack of Constantinople (1201 AD -1204 AD)
The Fourth Crusade (1204 AD) -
1300
Late Middle Ages (1300 AD -1500 AD)
The Great Famine (1315 AD - 1317 AD)
The Hundred Years’ War Joan of Arc (1337 AD - 1453 AD)
The Black Death (1347 AD - 1352 AD) -
Reference Sources
“A Brief History of Western Culture (Article).” Khan Academy, 2012, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/start-here-apah/brief-histories-apah/a/a-brief-history-of-western-culture. “Foundations of Western Civilization Timeline.” Cruzio, 2006, www2.cruzio.com/%7Ezdino/psychology/foundations.western.civilization.timeline.htm. “Foundations of Western Civilization Timeline.” Cruzio, 2006, www2.cruzio.com/%7Ezdino/psychology/foundations.western.civilization.timeline.htm.
