Art, Disease, Trade, Religion, Invention Timeline

By erennie
  • 15,000 BCE

    lascaux cave paintings

  • Period: 9000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    first agricultural breakthrough in fertile crescent

    barley
    wheat
    figs
    lentils
    goars
    sheep
    cattle
    pigs
  • Period: 7000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    agricultural breakthroughs in new guinea

    taro
    bananas
    yams
    sugarcane
  • Period: 6500 BCE to 5000 BCE

    agricultural breakthroughs in china

    rice
    millet
    soybeans
    pigs
    chickens
    water buffalo
  • 4000 BCE

    domestication of horses in the ukraine/southern russia

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    agricultural breakthoughs in sub-saharan africa

    sorghum
    millet
    yams
    teff
    cattle
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    agricultural breakthroughs in andes region

    potatoes
    quinoa
    manioc
    llamas
    alpaca
    guinea pig
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    agricultural breakthroughs in mesoamerica

    maize
    squash
    beans
    turkey
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    ironworking in anatolia

  • 1000 BCE

    ironworking in sub-saharan africa

  • Period: 700 BCE to 500 BCE

    archaic greek period

  • Period: 479 BCE to 323 BCE

    classical greek period

  • 650

    quran is compiled

  • Period: 800 to 1100

    islamic renaissance

  • Period: 800 to 1000

    emergence of sufism

  • 1000

    gunpowder is invented in china

  • 1054

    east west schism

  • Period: 1346 to 1353

    black plague

  • Period: 1400 to

    european renaissance

  • Period: 1405 to 1433

    zheng he's voyages

  • 1492

    columbus voyage to america

  • 1498

    vasco de gama arrives in india

  • Period: 1500 to 1530

    christian muslim conflict in ethiopia

    churches of lalibela
  • 1503

    leonardo da vinci paints the mona lisa

  • 1530

    first portuguese plantations in brazil

  • 1541

    discovery of silver in americas

  • 1550

    russian expansion across siberia begins

  • 1582

    jesuit missionaries arrive in china

  • Period: to

    taj mahal is built

  • Period: to 1517

    protestant reformation

  • Period: to

    salem witch trials

  • Period: to

    Terror of 1793-1794

    france-people are killed by guillotine by masses

  • women rights convention

  • california gold rush