History Timeline By erinmichelle 4000 BCE Garden on Eden Period: 3500 BCE to 1900 BCE Sumer Period: 3100 BCE to 2650 BCE Predynastic Period Period: 2650 BCE to 2134 BCE Old Kingdom 2500 BCE Flood 2242 BCE Tower of Babel Period: 2040 BCE to 1640 BCE Middle Kingdom 2000 BCE Abraham Period: 2000 BCE to 800 BCE The early period Period: 1900 BCE to 1300 BCE Babylonia 1792 BCE Babylonian empire starts up Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE New Kindom 1420 BCE Exodus Period: 1330 BCE to 609 BCE Assyria Period: 1070 BCE to 332 BCE Late Dynastic Period 1000 BCE David Period: 800 BCE to 480 BCE The early classical period 753 BCE Rome is founded Period: 609 BCE to 530 BCE Chaldea 586 BCE Judah exiled by Babylonians 539 BCE Babylonian empire ends 537 BCE Return from exile - rebuild temple Period: 480 BCE to 338 BCE Classical Greece 356 BCE Alexander the Great is born Period: 338 BCE to 27 BCE Hellenistic Age Period: 332 BCE to 28 BCE Greek period 323 BCE Alexander the Great dies Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE Punic War 146 BCE Greek empire ends Period: 146 BCE to 31 BCE The decline of the republic 100 BCE Julius Caesar is born Period: 48 BCE to 395 Roman Period 44 BCE Julius Caesar's death Period: 31 BCE to 180 Pax Romana 5 BCE Christ's birth 33 Christ's death Period: 96 to 180 The 5 good emperors 395 Rome splits 395 Christianity becomes the official religion of Rome 1453 Byzantine and Roman empire end