Midterm By clairer Period: 200,000 BCE to 30,000 BCE Early evolution of Neanderthal peoples Period: 13,500 BCE to 10,500 BCE Natufian Society Period: 10,000 BCE to 8000 BCE Early experimentation with agriculture Period: 10,000 BCE to 300 BCE Jomon Society 8000 BCE Appearance of agricultural villages Period: 8000 BCE to 7000 BCE Beginnings of agriculture in south Asia Period: 4000 BCE to 3500 BCE Appearance of cities Period: 3200 BCE to 2350 BCE Era of Sumerian dominance in Mesopotamia 3100 BCE Unification of Egypt Period: 3100 BCE to 2660 BCE Archaic Period of Egyptian history Period: 3000 BCE to Dec 14, 1850 Chinook Society Period: 3000 BCE to Dec 14, 1000 Era of Indo-European Migrations Period: 2660 BCE to 2160 BCE Egyptian Old Kingdom Period: 2600 BCE to 2500 BCE Era of pyramid building in Egypt Period: 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE High point of Harappan society Period: 2500 BCE to 1450 BCE Early kingdom of Kush with capital at Kerma Period: 2350 BCE to 1600 BCE Era of Babylonian dominance in Mesopotamia Period: 2334 BCE to 2315 BCE Reign of Sargon of Akkad Period: 2200 BCE to 1100 BCE Minoan Society 1900 BCE Beginning of Harappan decline Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE Reign of Hammurabi Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE Era of Hittite dominance in Anatolia Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE Mycenaean Society Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE Egyptian New Kingdom 1500 BCE Beginning of Aryan migration to India Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE Vedic age Period: 1400 BCE to 900 BCE Composition of the Rig Veda 1000 BCE Early Aryan Migrations to the Ganges River Valley 1000 BCE Emergence of varna distinctions Period: 1000 BCE to 612 BCE Era of Assyrian dominance in Mesopotamia Period: 1000 BCE to 970 BCE Reign of Israelite King David Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE Formation of regional kingdoms in northern India Period: 970 BCE to 930 BCE Reign of Israelite King Solomon 900 BCE Invention of iron metallurgy in sub-Saharan Africa Period: 800 BCE to 338 BCE Era of the classical Greek polis 760 BCE Conquest of Egypt by King Kasha of Kush 753 BCE Founding of Rome, according to tradition 750 BCE Establishment of first Aryan cities in the Ganges valley 722 BCE Assyrian conquest of kingdom of Israel Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE Reign of Nebuchadnezzar Period: 600 BCE to 550 BCE New Babylonian Empire 586 BCE New Babylonian conquest of kingdom of Judah Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE Confucius Period: 540 BCE to 468 BCE Life of Vardhamana Mahavira 520 BCE Invasion of India by Darius of Persia 509 BCE Establishment of Roman Republic 500 BCE Early Aryan migrations to Deccan Plateau Period: 500 BCE to 479 BCE Persian Wars 490 BCE Darius' invasion of Greece 490 BCE Battle of Marathon 480 BCE Xerxes' invasion of Greece 480 BCE Battle of Salamis 479 BCE Battle of Platea Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE Life of Socrates Period: 443 BCE to 429 BCE Pericles' leadership in Athens Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE Peloponnesian War Period: 430 BCE to 347 BCE Life of Plato Period: 403 BCE to 221 BCE Period of the Warring States Period: 390 BCE to 338 BCE Shang Yang Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE Life of Aristotle Period: 372 BCE to 289 BCE Mencius Period: 359 BCE to 336 BCE Reign of Phillip II of Macedon Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE Reign of Alexander of Macedon Period: 321 BCE to 185 BCE Mauryan Dynasty Period: 321 BCE to 297 BCE Reign of Chandragupta Maurya Period: 298 BCE to 238 BCE Xunzi Period: 280 BCE to 233 BCE Han Feizi Period: 268 BCE to 232 BCE Reign of Ashoka Maurya Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE Roman expansion into Mediterranean basin Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE Qin Dynasty Period: 206 BCE to 9 Early Han Dynasty Period: 182 BCE to 1 CE Bactrian Rule in northern India Period: 139 BCE to 126 BCE Travels of Zhang Qian to central Asia Period: 106 BCE to 43 BCE Life of Marcus Tulles Cicero Period: 46 BCE to 44 BCE Rule of Gaius Ceasar as dictator Period: 31 BCE to 14 Rule of Augustus Period: 4 BCE to 30 Life of Jesus of Nazareth 3 BCE Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism to southeast Asia 2 BCE Introduction of Buddhism to central Asia 1 BCE Civil War in Rome 1 BCE Introduction of Buddhism to China 1 CE Life of Paul of Tarsus Period: 1 CE to 270 Kushan empire in northern India and central Asia 2 Spread of Christianity in the Mediterranean basin and southwest Asia Period: 9 to 220 Reign of Han Wudi Period: 25 to 220 Later Han Dynasty Period: 127 to 153 Reign of Kushan emperor Kanishka 184 Yellow Turban Rebellion Period: 216 to 272 Life of Mani 220 Collapse of the Han Dynasty Period: 284 to 305 Reign of Diocletian 313 Edict of Milan and the legalization of Christianity in the Roman empire Period: 313 to 337 Reign of Constantine Period: 320 to 550 Gupta Dynasty 476 Collapse of the western Roman empire