-
Imperial dynasty that ruled China and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy.
-
The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism
-
A millennia-long series of migrations.
-
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon.
-
A letter signed by emperors Constantine I and Licinius that proclaimed religious toleration in the Roman Empire.
-
An ancient Indian empire which existed from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent. Founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta.
-
King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire.
-
The city was founded as Byzantium in the 7th century B.C. It was renamed Constantinople 330 A.D. when the Roman emperor Constantine moved his capital.
-
The city of Rome has been sacked on several occasions.
-
Ruler of the huns. Leader of the Hunnic empire
-
-
Justinian I, commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor.
-
The first movable type printing system was invented by Pi Sheng in China
-
The imperial dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th centuries BC.
-
An ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation state and cultural region based in Mesopotamia
-
At its economic height, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.
-
Paul the Apostle, original name Saul of Tarsus, was a Christian missionary who took the gospel of Christ to the first-century world.
-
Jesus of Nazareth
-
70
-
The Hittites developed new techniques for using iron.
-
-
Founder of Buddhism.
-
The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire.
-
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.
-
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers.
-
About 3,000 BC the people of Mesopotamia began to use bronze, the Egyptians continued to use copper in the way described until around 2,000 BC.
-
The Harappan civilization experienced its height around 2500 BC and began to decline about 2000 BC.
-
The Theravada is descended from the Tāmraparnīya, which means 'the ... into Parinirvana or after death doctorine were codified by Sangha group.
-
Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC
-
Appeared in Mesopotamia before 3300 B.C.E.
