History stevens By C0NN0R G 3100 BCE Narmer Unites Upper and Lower Egypt Period: 3100 BCE to 1069 BCE Egyptian Empire Period: 3100 BCE to 2686 BCE Early Dynastic Egypt Period: 2686 BCE to 2181 BCE Old Kingdom Egypt Period: 2686 BCE to 2613 BCE Step-Pyramids Period: 2590 BCE to 2181 BCE True Pyramids Period: 2181 BCE to 2055 BCE First Intermediate Period 2055 BCE Mentuhotep II of Thebes reunites Egypt Period: 2055 BCE to 1650 BCE Middle Kingdom Period: 1650 BCE to 1550 BCE Second Intermediate Period 1550 BCE Ahmose I Reunites Egypt Period: 1550 BCE to 1069 BCE New Kingdom Period: 1500 BCE to 1046 BCE Shang Dynasty Period: 1500 BCE to 589 Chinese Empire Period: 1479 BCE to 1458 BCE Hatshepsut's Rule Period: 1458 BCE to 1425 BCE Thutmose III's Rule Period: 1400 BCE to 609 BCE Assyrian Empire Period: 1390 BCE to 1352 BCE Amenhotep III's Rule Period: 1352 BCE to 1336 BCE Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV)'s rule Period: 1319 BCE to 1292 BCE Horemheb's Rule Period: 1292 BCE to 1279 BCE Seti I's Rule Period: 1279 BCE to 1213 BCE Ramses II's Rule 1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh 1259 BCE Treaty of Kadesh 1200 BCE Wuding and Fu Hao Period: 1186 BCE to 1155 BCE Ramses III's Rule Period: 1075 BCE to 1046 BCE Di Xin's Rule 1046 BCE Wu Overthrows Shang Period: 1046 BCE to 1043 BCE Wu's Rule Period: 1046 BCE to 777 BCE Western Zhou Period: 1043 BCE to 1035 BCE Duke of Zhou's Rule Period: 1035 BCE to 1006 BCE Cheng's Rule Period: 781 BCE to 771 BCE King You's Rule Period: 770 BCE to 222 BCE Eastern Zhou Period: 770 BCE to 481 BCE Spring and Autumn Period 753 BCE Romulus founds Rome Period: 753 BCE to 1453 Rome Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE Roman Kingdom Period: 750 BCE to 501 BCE Archaic Age Period: 685 BCE to 643 BCE Duke Huan of Qi Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE Ashurbanipal's Rule Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE New Babylon Period: 609 BCE to 585 BCE Cyraxes II's rule Period: 609 BCE to 550 BCE Medes Period: 605 BCE to 561 BCE Nebuchadnezzar II's rule Period: 597 BCE to 539 BCE Babylonian Captivity Period: 559 BCE to 330 BCE Persian Empire Period: 559 BCE to 530 BCE Cyrus the great's rule Period: 556 BCE to 539 BCE Nabonidus's rule Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE Confucius Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE Darius I's Rule 509 BCE Nobles Overthrow Tarquin the Proud Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE Roman Republic 501 BCE Laozi 501 BCE Athens Overthrows the Aristocracy Period: 501 BCE to 338 BCE Classical Greece Period: 492 BCE to 490 BCE First Greco-Persian War 490 BCE Battle of Marathon 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae Period: 480 BCE to 222 BCE Warring States Period Period: 480 BCE to 479 BCE Second Greco-Persian War 479 BCE Battle of Plataea 479 BCE Battle of Salamis Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE Socrates Period: 461 BCE to 429 BCE Pericles 458 BCE Cincinnatus Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE Peloponnesian War Period: 427 BCE to 348 BCE Plato 406 BCE Battle of Arginusae Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE Aristotle Period: 359 BCE to 336 BCE Phillip II 338 BCE Phillip II conquers Greece Period: 338 BCE to 146 BCE Hellenistic Period Period: 336 BCE to 330 BCE Darius III's rule Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE Alexander the Great 333 BCE Gordion Knot 333 BCE Battle of Issus 332 BCE Siege of Tyre 332 BCE Conquest of egypt 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela 326 BCE Battle of Hydaspes Period: 312 BCE to 64 BCE Seleucid Kingdom Period: 312 BCE to 30 BCE Ptolemaic Kingdom Period: 312 BCE to 146 BCE Antigonids Period: 312 BCE to 285 BCE Ptolemy I Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE Archimedes Period: 285 BCE to 246 BCE Ptolemy II Period: 280 BCE to 233 BCE Han Feizi 264 BCE Italy Unified Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE First Punic War 221 BCE Yin Zheng of Qin unifies China Period: 221 BCE to 210 BCE Shi Huangdi (Yin Zheng)'s Rule Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE Qin Dynasty Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE Second Punic War 206 BCE Liu Bang unifies China Period: 206 BCE to 195 BCE Liu Bang's Rule Period: 206 BCE to 220 Han Dynasty Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE Third Punic War 146 BCE Antigonids Fall to Rome Period: 141 BCE to 87 BCE Wudi's Rule 133 BCE Tiberius Gracchus 132 BCE Gaius Gracchus Period: 112 BCE to 106 BCE Jugurthine War Period: 91 BCE to 87 BCE Italian War Period: 82 BCE to 79 BCE Sulla's Dictatorship Period: 70 BCE to 30 BCE Cleopatra VII Period: 60 BCE to 53 BCE First Triumvirate 48 BCE Battle of Pharsalus Period: 46 BCE to 44 BCE Caesar's Dictatorship 44 BCE Caesar Assassinated Period: 43 BCE to 32 BCE Second Triumvirate 32 BCE War of Actium Period: 27 BCE to 14 Augustus's Rule Period: 27 BCE to 68 Julio-Claudians Period: 9 to 25 Wang Mang's Rule Period: 14 to 37 Tiberius's Rule Period: 37 to 41 Caligula's Rule Period: 41 to 54 Claudius's Rule Period: 54 to 68 Nero's Rule 64 Great Fire Period: 66 to 70 Jewish Revolt Period: 69 to 96 Flavians Period: 69 to 79 Vespasian's Rule Period: 79 to 81 Titus's Rule Period: 81 to 96 Domitian's Rule Period: 96 to 98 Nerva's Rule Period: 96 to 180 Five Good Emperors Period: 98 to 117 Trajan's Rule Period: 117 to 138 Hadrian's Rule Period: 138 to 161 Antoninus Pius's Rule Period: 161 to 180 Marcus Aurelius's Rule Period: 180 to 192 Commodus's Rule Period: 193 to 235 Severan Dynasty Period: 193 to 211 Septimius Severus's Rule Period: 211 to 217 Caracalla's Rule Period: 217 to 218 Macrinus's Rule Period: 218 to 222 Elagabalus's Rule Period: 220 to 589 Six Dynasties Period Period: 222 to 235 Alexander Severus's Rule Period: 235 to 284 Military Anarchy Period: 284 to 305 Diocletian's Rule Period: 306 to 337 Constantine's Rule 476 Last Emperor of East and West Period: 476 to 1453 Byzantine Empire