2000 B.C.E and 300 C.E.

  • 2000 BCE

    Pottery

    Pottery
    Pottery is the first artifical material ever made by humans. Pottery is made of clay that have been fashioned into a desire shape, dried, and either fired or baked to fix their form. This oldest site of pottery was found in Japan around 16,500 years ago.
  • 1900 BCE

    Mycenaean civilization

    Mycenaean civilization
    Mycenaean civilization was introduced in Greece and the Aegean.
  • 1750 BCE

    Elamite invasion

    Elamite invasion
    Elamite invasion and Amorite migration ends the Sumerian civilization.
  • 1500 BCE

    The Gandhara Civilization flourishes

    The Gandhara Civilization flourishes in what is today the northern portion of Pakistan and Afghanistan
  • 1400 BCE

    The Cyclades Culture is influenced

    Culture in the Cyclades is increasingly influenced by the Mycenaean civilization of mainland Greece.
  • 1400 BCE

    Rhodes makes contact

    Rhodes has significant contact with the Mycenaean civilization.
  • 1200 BCE

    The Olmec Civilization appears

    The Olmec civilization springs from the grouping of ancient villages along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
  • 1000 BCE

    Greek civilization flourishes

    Ancient Greek civilization in Greece and the Mediterranean.
  • 900 BCE

    The Urartu become present

    The Urartu civilization flourishes in ancient Armenia, eastern Turkey and western Iran.
  • 75 BCE

    Kushan Rule

    Kushan Rule
    Kushan rule in the Gandhara region, arguably the golden era of the Gandhara civilization in which art, architecture and the propagation of the Buddhist religion excelled.