Ancient Times

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  • 3100 BCE

    Unification of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt by King Narmer

    Unification of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt by King Narmer
    Was divided into two regions, namely Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. To the north was Lower Egypt, where the Nile stretched out with its several branches to form the Nile Delta. To the south was Upper Egypt.Ancient Egyptian tradition credited Menes, now believed to be the same as Narmer, as the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2300 BCE

    Sumerian period

    Sumer was the southern counterpart to the northern region of Akkad Sumer means : "land of civilized kings".They essentially “invented” time by dividing day and night into 12-hour periods, hours into 60 minutes, and minutes into 60 seconds.Their other innovations and inventions include the first schools.
  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE

    Old Kingdom

    The concept of an "Old Kingdom" as one of three "golden ages" was coined in 1845 by the German Egyptologist Baron von Bunsen, and its definition would evolve significantly throughout the 19th and the 20th centuries.In this year King Narmer do the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt. An Egyptian settlement was founded at Buhen in Nubia which endured for 200 years.
  • Period: 2300 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Akkadian Empire

    The Akkadian Empire exercised influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as Dilmun and Magan (modern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Oman) in the Arabian Peninsula.The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC.After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the people of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Akkadian-speaking nations: Assyria in the north, and Babylonia in the south.
  • Period: 2050 BCE to 1720 BCE

    Middle Kingdom

    The concept of the Middle Kingdom as one of three golden ages was coined in 1845 by German Egyptologist Baron von Bunsen, and its definition evolved significantly throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.Some scholars also include the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Last king of this dynasty to be attested in both Upper and Lower Egypt.
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 1350 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

    It was often involved in rivalry with the older state of Assyria to the north and Elam to the east in Ancient Iran. Babylonia briefly became the major power in the region after Hammurabi ( c. 1792–1752 BC middle chronology, or c. 1696–1654 BC.The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a clay tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 BC).
  • 1750 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

    Code of Hammurabi
    The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed. It is the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1069 BCE

    New Kingdom

    The later part of this period, under the Nineteenth and Twentieth dynasties (1292–1069 BC), is also known as the Ramesside period. It is named after the eleven pharaohs who took the name Ramesses, after Ramesses I, the founder of the Nineteenth Dynasty.The Eighteenth Dynasty included some of Egypt's most famous kings, including Ahmose I, Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun.
  • Period: 1350 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

    The city underwent several periods of foreign rule and domination before Assyria rose under Ashur-uballit I in the 14th century BC as the Middle Assyrian Empire. In the Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods Assyria was one of the two major Mesopotamian kingdoms.The Assyrian Empire fell in the late 7th century BC, conquered by Babylonians, who had lived under Assyrian rule for about a century, and the Medes.
  • Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE

    Monarchy

    The site of the founding of the Roman Kingdom (and eventual Republic and Empire) had a ford where one could cross the river Tiber in central Italy. The Palatine Hill and hills surrounding it provided easily defensible positions in the wide fertile plain surrounding them. The kings (excluding Romulus, who, according to legend, held office by virtue of being the city's founder).
  • Period: 750 BCE to 500 BCE

    Archaic Period

    Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from circa 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC.To the Upper part of Greece was called "Acropolis" there were the Temples. The "Lower Part" was called "Agora" were the public buidings were.
  • Period: 715 BCE to 31 BCE

    Late Period

    Refers to the last flowering of native Egyptian rulers after the Third Intermediate Period in the 26th Saite Dynasty founded by Psamtik I.The Late Period existed from 664 BC until 332 BC.
  • Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE

    Neo-Babylonian Empire

    Also known as the Second Babylonian Empire.And historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last of the Mesopotamian empires to be ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia.With the Neo-Babylonian kings conducting massive building projects, especially in Babylon itself, and bringing back many elements from the previous 2,000 or so years of Sumero-Akkadian culture. Religious policies introduced by the Neo-Babylonian Empire's final king, Nabonidus.
  • Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

    Republic

    Was a state of the classical Roman civilization, run through public representation of the Roman people.Roman society under the Republic was primarily a cultural mix of Latin and Etruscan societies, as well as of Sabine, Oscan, and Greek cultural elements, which is especially visible in the Roman Pantheon. Its political organization developed, at around the same time as direct democracy in Ancient Greece, with collective and annual magistracies, overseen by a senate.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 323 BCE

    Classical Period

    This was the great period for the polis because Democracy was invented , and brilliant dramatists, artists. But however there were some conflicts such as the Median Wars and the Pelopponesian War Median War: When the Persians try to conquered Continental Greece and Greece and Athens did an Military Alliance.
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Maraton

    Battle of Maraton
    It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece. The Greek army inflicted a crushing defeat on the more numerous Persians, marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars.
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

    Battle of Salamis
    Was a naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC. To block the Persian advance, a small force of Greeks blocked the pass of Thermopylae, while an Athenian-dominated Allied navy engaged the Persian fleet in the nearby straits of Artemisium.
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopiles

    Battle of Thermopiles
    It occurred at the narrow coastal pass of Thermopylae ("The Hot Gates") in August or September 480 BC. A Greek force of approximately 7,000 men marched north to block the pass in the middle of 480 BC.
  • 432 BCE

    Construction of the Parthernon

    Construction of the Parthernon
    The construction started in 447 b.c and finished in 438 b.c. Although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC For a time , it served as the treasury of the Delian League. On 26 September 1687, an Ottoman ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by Venetian bombardment during a siege of the Acropolis.
  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenistic Period

    The Hellenistic period spans the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and his Generals divided the Empire in several Hellenistic Monarquies and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.The Ancient Greek word Hellas (Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was originally the widely recognized name of Greece, from which the word Hellenistic was derived.
  • 202 BCE

    Battle of Zama

    Marked de end of the Second Punic War Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio defeated Carthaginian army led by Hannibal also Hannibal Employed 80 War Elephants.
    Carthaginian lost 20.000-25.000 killed 8.500-20.000 captured Scipio lost 4.000-5.000 men.
  • Period: 110 BCE to 750 BCE

    Dark Age

    At about the same time, the Hittite civilization suffered serious disruption as cities from Troy to Gaza were destroyed. In Egypt, the New Kingdom fell into disarray that led to the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt. It was previously thought that all contact was lost between mainland Hellenes and foreign powers during this period.
  • 44 BCE

    Assassination of Julius Caesar

    Assassination of Julius Caesar
    El 15 de marzo del año 44 a.C. cayó asesinado en el Senado, víctima de una conspiración orquestada por un grupo de senadores opuestos a sus ambiciones autocráticas. Cayo Casio, Marco Junio Bruto.Tilio Cimbro y Servilio Casca le asestaron los primeros golpes, a los que siguieron varias puñaladas que acabaron con su vida.
  • 31 BCE

    Battle of Actium

    Battle of Actium
    The Battle of Actium was a naval battle fought between a maritime fleet led by Octavian and the combined fleets of both Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII Philopator. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC in the Ionian Sea.In early 31 B.C., the year of the battle, Antony and Cleopatra were temporarily stationed in Greece.
  • Period: 27 BCE to 476

    Empire

    As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, ruled by emperors. From the accession of Caesar Augustus as the first Roman emperor to the military anarchy of the 3rd century.Later, the Empire was ruled by multiple emperors who shared control over the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.