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  • 1000 BCE

    1000 BCE

    Aryan people being to settle in India and King David establishes Jerusalem as his capital city.
  • 800 BCE

    800 BCE

    Rise of the Nubian kingdom at Napata.
  • 771 BCE

    771 BCE

    Zhou kingdom ends in China.
  • 600 BCE

    600 BCE

    Iron metallurgy is known in China Trade: Silk
  • Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE

    563 BCE - 483 BCE

    Beginning of Buddhism as a religion; Mahavira founded Jainism after 500 BCE. Trades: Roulette Pottery, Gemstones, ancient fishing boats
  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    551 BCE - 479 BCE

    Beginning of the philosophy Confucianism.
  • Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE

    522 BCE - 486 BCE

    Darius I rules the Persian Empire
  • 507 BCE

    507 BCE

    The Roman Republic begins
  • Period: 477 BCE to 404 BCE

    477 BCE - 404 BCE

    Athenian Empire in Greece, and the age of Pericles from the end of the Persian wars in 448 BCE to the death of Pericles 329 BC; trial and death of Socrates 399 BCE.
  • 465 BCE

    465 BCE

    Hanno of Carthage explores the West African coast
  • Period: 400 BCE to 300 BCE

    400 BCE - 300 BCE

    Kingdom of Meroe in Nubia
  • Period: 334 BCE to 323 BCE

    334 BCE - 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquers western Asia and begins the Hellenistic period
  • Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE

    323 BCE - 30 BCE

    Ptolemaic kings rule Egypt
  • Period: 224 BCE to 651 BCE

    224 CE - 651 CE

    Sassanid Empire rules in Persia until the defeat of Chosroes by the Arab Muslims
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220 BCE

    206 BCE - 220 CE

    Han Dynasty rules in China until Qin emperor unites eastern China in 221 CE
  • Period: 100 BCE to 900 BCE

    100 CE - 900 CE

    Disease epidemics:
    Smallpox, measles, bubonic plague in Rome and China
  • Period: 50 BCE to 560 BCE

    50 CE - 560 CE

    Funan dominates the Indochina and the Isthmus of Kra in Southeast Asia
  • Period: 45 BCE to 58 BCE

    45 CE - 58 CE

    Life of the Apostle Paul who spread Christianity around the Mediterranean
  • Period: 31 BCE to 14 BCE

    31 BCE - 14 CE

    Caesar Augustus rules the Roman Empire
  • Period: 4 BCE to 30 BCE

    4 CE - 30 CE

    Birth of Jesus of Nazareth; beginning of Christianity after his crucifixion in 30 BCE