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

Pottery

2000 BCE

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.

Mycenaean civilization

1900 BCE

Mycenaean civilization was introduced in Greece and the Aegean.

Elamite invasion

1750 BCE

Elamite invasion and Amorite migration ends the Sumerian civilization.

The Gandhara Civilization flourishes

1500 BCE

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

The Cyclades Culture is influenced

1400 BCE

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

Rhodes makes contact

1400 BCE

Rhodes has significant contact with the Mycenaean civilization.

The Olmec Civilization appears

1200 BCE

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

Greek civilization flourishes

1000 BCE

Ancient Greek civilization in Greece and the Mediterranean.

The Urartu become present

900 BCE

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

Kushan Rule

75 BCE

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.