With the rise of city-states in Greece, Athens and Sparta became the domintant two.
600 BCE
Foundations 8000 BCE – 600 BCE
600 BCE
Classical 600 BCE – 600 CE
500 BCE
Greek Golden Age
500 BCE
Beginnings of Confuaciasm
336 BCE
Alexander the Great
220
End of Han Dynasty
376
Fall of Rome
527
Justinian rules Byzantine Empire
Dec 31, 600
Classical 600 BCE – 600 CE
Dec 31, 600
Post Classical 600 CE – 1450
Dec 24, 650
Rise of Islam
Dec 24, 1054
First Schism in Christian Church
Dec 24, 1095
First Crusade
Dec 24, 1325
Ibn Battuta
Dec 24, 1450
Post Classical 600 CE – 1450
Dec 24, 1450
Exploration 1450 – 1750
Dec 24, 1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
Dec 24, 1488
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
Jan 22, 1510
First slaves to Caribbean
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther writes 95 theses
Beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate
Exploration 1450 – 1750
Early Modern 1750 – 1900
French Revolution
Haitian independence
Congress of Vienna
Early Modern 1750 – 1900
Modern 1900 – Present
End of WWI
US Stock Market Crash
Pearl Harbor
Cuban Revolution
Fall of USSR/First Gulf war
Genocide in Rwanda
The Rwandan genocide, known officially as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government.