History of Ideas By christiaandewit Period: 2686 BCE to 2181 BCE Egypt - Old Kingdom Period: 2600 BCE to 1700 BCE Indus Valley Civilization Period: 2500 BCE to 605 BCE Assyria Period: 2334 BCE to 2154 BCE Babylonia Period: 2055 BCE to 1650 BCE Egypt - Middle Kingdom Period: 1600 BCE to 1178 BCE Hittites Period: 1550 BCE to 1077 BCE Egypt - New Kingdom Period: 1500 BCE to 1155 BCE Kassites Period: 1400 BCE to 350 BCE Olmec Civilization Period: 1200 BCE to 539 BCE Phoenicia Period: 1185 BCE to 547 BCE Kingdom of Lydia Period: 1070 BCE to 350 Kingdom of Kush Period: 940 BCE to 556 BCE Chaldean Empire Period: 814 BCE to 146 BCE Carthage Period: 800 BCE to 600 Greece Period: 678 BCE to 546 BCE Median Empire Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE Neo-Babylonian Empire 625 BCE Thales 580 BCE Pythagoras Period: 550 BCE to 651 Persia 525 BCE Aeschylus Period: 509 BCE to 1453 Rome 496 BCE Sophocles 484 BCE Euripedes 480 BCE Herodotus 470 BCE Socrates 460 BCE Democritus 460 BCE Thucydides 451 BCE confucius 450 BCE Twelve Tables Codified 450 BCE Siddhartha Gautama Boeddha 427 BCE Plato 387 BCE Plato's Academy 384 BCE Aristotle 356 BCE Alexander the Great 341 BCE Epicurus 335 BCE Zeno The Stoic 335 BCE Aristotle Academy Period: 322 BCE to 185 BCE Maurya Empire 312 BCE First Roman Roads 300 BCE Elements of Geometry Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE The Punic Wars Period: 221 BCE to 1912 Imperial China 220 BCE Great Wall of China Complete Period: 209 BCE to 93 Xiongu 106 BCE Cicero 95 BCE Lucretius 4 BCE Seneca 1 CE Jesus Christ 5 the Apostle Paul 33 Death and Resurrection of Jesus 56 Tacitus Period: 100 to 940 Aksum Kingdom Period: 200 to 900 Teuchitlan Civilization Period: 224 to 651 Sasanian Empire Period: 250 to 950 Mayan Empire 280 Constantine Period: 330 to 1204 Byzantine Empire 354 Augustine 480 Boethius Period: 481 to 843 Frankish Empire Period: 496 to 1122 Toltec Empire Period: 500 to 1500 Middle Ages 571 Mohammed Period: 600 to 1500 Pre-Islamic Indonesia Period: 600 to 700 Rise of Islam Period: 660 to 2018 Imperial House of Japan Period: 676 to 1910 Unified Korea Period: 700 to 1521 Zapotec Civilization Period: 734 to 1949 Mewar Kingdom 800 Charlemagne Crowned Emperor of Holy Roman Empire Period: 830 to 1240 Wagadou Empire 980 Avicenna 1000 Chinese Invent Gunpowder Period: 1060 to 2018 Berber and Arab Dynasty 1079 Peter Abelard Period: 1206 to 1687 Mongol Empire 1224 Thomas Aquinas Period: 1230 to 1600 Mali Empire Period: 1238 to 1932 Siam 1265 Dante Alighieri Period: 1270 to 1974 Ethiopia (Solomonic Dynasty) Period: 1299 to 1923 Ottomon Empire Period: 1346 to 1353 Black Death 1400 Johanness Gutenburg Period: 1400 to 1700 Renaissance Period: 1421 to 1521 Aztec Empire Period: 1438 to 1533 Inca Empire 1450 Gutenburg's Printing Press 1452 Leonardo da Vinci 1463 Pico della Mirandola Period: 1464 to 1591 Songhai Empire 1466 Erasmus 1473 Copernicus Period: 1474 to 1931 Spanish Empire 1492 Columbus discovered the Americas 1493 Martin Luther Period: 1500 to 2018 Reformation 1517 Martin Luther Nails 99 Theses Period: 1526 to 1867 Austrian Empire 1547 Cervantes 1561 Francis Bacon 1564 Galileo 1571 Johannes Kepler Period: 1583 to 2018 British Empire 1596 Descartes 1632 John Locke 1632 Isaac Newton Period: 1670 to 1902 Ashanti Empire Period: 1721 to 1917 Russian Empire 1743 Thomas Jefferson Period: 1760 to 1840 Industrial Revolution 1776 Declaration of Independence Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1792 to 2018 French Empire 1809 Darwin 1818 Karl Marx 1826 First Photography 1834 Mendeleyev 1840 Maxim 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche 1847 Thomas Edison 1847 Alexander Graham Bell Period: 1850 to 1980 Modernism 1856 Freud 1870 Vladimir Lenin 1876 Telephone invented 1879 Einstein 1881 Alexander Fleming 1882 Picasso 1882 Georges Braque 1894 Lemaitre 1898 C.S. Lewis Period: 1914 to 1918 World War 1 Period: 1939 to 1945 World War II
