History of Ideas

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  • 3500 BCE

    The Sumerians and Babylonians develop calculations

  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2300 BCE

    The Building of the Great Pyramids

  • Period: 1750 BCE to 1111 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

  • 1100 BCE

    The First Alphabets

  • Period: 580 BCE to 500 BCE

    Pythagoras

    Math dude who didn't understand irrational numbers
  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucius

    taught obedience and respect
    has a ton of bomb.com quotes
    Invented chopsticks
  • 529 BCE

    Mesopotamia is conquered by Persians

  • Period: 525 BCE to 465 BCE

    Aeschylus

    Inventor of drama
  • Period: 496 BCE to 406 BCE

    Sophocles

    Developed tragic drama
  • Period: 495 BCE to 429 BCE

    Pericles

    Began moving funeral ceremonies
  • 490 BCE

    Persia gets defeated by Greece

  • Period: 486 BCE to 465 BCE

    Xerxes' rule

    May have been Darius II
  • Period: 484 BCE to 406 BCE

    Euripedes

    Wrote tragic plays
  • Period: 484 BCE to 421 BCE

    Herodotus

    Traveler
  • Period: 480 BCE to 404 BCE

    Thucydides

    Biographer
  • Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

    One of the greatest philosophers ever
    Made people uncomfortable by asking thought-provoking questions which lead to his execution.
  • Period: 463 BCE to 483 BCE

    Siddhartha Guatama

    Founder of Buddhism - also known as the Enlightened one
  • Period: 427 BCE to 347 BCE

    Plato

    Philosopher
    Socrates' student
    Aristotle's teacher
  • 387 BCE

    Plato founds the Academy

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    Student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great. Great philosopher, father of logic and thinking
  • Period: 341 BCE to 270 BCE

    Epicurus

    Greek philosopher
  • 336 BCE

    Alexander the Great takes the throne in Macedonia

  • 335 BCE

    Aristotle Opens the Lyceum

  • Period: 335 BCE to 263 BCE

    Zeno the Stoic

    Greek philosopher
  • Period: 335 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

  • 325 BCE

    First Indian Empire

  • 325 BCE

    The First Indian Empire

  • 300 BCE

    Euclid compiled his Elements of Geometry

  • Period: 265 BCE to 235 BCE

    The Rule of Asoka

  • Period: 234 BCE to 149 BCE

    Cato the Censor

  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    Reign of of Shih Huang-ti

  • Period: 108 BCE to 62 BCE

    Catiline

  • Period: 106 BCE to 43 BCE

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

    Roman consul
  • Period: 106 BCE to 48 BCE

    Pompey

  • Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar

  • Period: 95 BCE to 51 BCE

    T. Lucretius Carus

    Poet
  • Period: 85 BCE to 42 BCE

    Brutus

    "et tu, Brute"
  • Period: 82 BCE to 30 BCE

    Marcus Antony

  • Period: 63 BCE to 14

    Augustus

    First Roman emperor
    Caesar's nephew
  • Period: 42 BCE to 37 BCE

    Tiberius

  • Roman Conquest
    30 BCE

    Roman Conquest

  • Period: 30 BCE to 14

    Augustus' Reign

  • 30

    Good Friday

  • Period: 37 to 68

    Nero

    Psychotic Violinist
  • Period: 97 to 117

    The reign of Emperor Trajan

  • Period: 121 to 180

    Marcus Aurelius

  • Period: 517 to 565

    The Rule of Justinian the Great

  • Period: 570 to 632

    Muhammad

    founder of Islam
  • 610

    Muhammad received his first direct message from Allah

  • Period: 1270 to 1317

    Giotto

    Born in Florence, Italy
    Realism Painter
    Renaissance Period
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus sails to the Caribbean

  • Period: to

    John Locke

    Scottish reformer
  • Period: to

    Immanuel Kant

    German philosopher
  • Period: to

    Edward Gibbon

    Author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Period: to

    G. W. F. Hegel

  • Period: to

    Charles Darwin

    English scientist who furthered the study and deductions of evolution by experimenting on animals on Galapagos Island. Grandson of Erasmus Darwin, another founding evolutionist
  • Period: to

    Karl Marx

    Philosopher and communist from Trier, Germany. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel
  • Period: to

    Oswald Spengler

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing the US to join the Allies in World War II

  • Terrorist attack on World Trade Center

    The world trade center in New York City was destroyed by Muslim fundamentalist, beginning America's war on terrorism