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Period: 10,000 BCE to 1000 BCE
Bantus migrate to the east and south (1000 BCE - 1000 AD)
The Bantu, were a class of over 400 ethnic groups who spoke a similar language, and shared common customs. There are many causes of the Bantu migration; drying up of the Sahara grasslands, an increase in population, the constant attacks from stronger neighboring tribes in West Africa and the Nile valley, rulers wanted to expand their kingdoms, tribal wars caused defeated tribes to run away, and the Bantu people wanted to expand their iron-working culture. -
9600 BCE
Paleolithic Era (9600 BCE)
(Palaeolithic is also more generally associated with the cultures and lifestyles of the hunter-gatherers who produced the tools in question. Paleolithic people were the first to create clothing, usually out of leather or linen, and even created needles with eyes for sewing. -
Period: 8700 BCE to 2000 BCE
Stone Age (8700 BCE - 2000 BCE)
The stone age was a period of prehistory where people use stone tools. Long ago, they used technologies such as stone tools to hunt, eat, and build. This period was important because it helped many people stop the nomadic lifestyle and began farming when they climate change. The started to use many of their technologies such as Hammerstones. -
Period: 8000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Neolithic Revolution (8000 BCE - 3000 BCE)
The Neolithic Revolution was a period of time were people transformed into hunting to agriculture settlements and early civilization. This caused many people to leave the nomadic lifestyle completely. From the Neolithic Revolution, many people moved from region to region. -
Period: 5000 BCE to 35,000 BCE
Mesopotamian city-states established (5000 - 35000 BCE)
Mesopotamian civilizations formed on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is today Iraq and Kuwait. Some of the major Mesopotamian civilizations include the Sumerian, Assyrian, Akkadian, and Babylonian civilizations. -
Period: 4500 BCE to 2000 BCE
Neolithic Era (4500 BC - 2000 BCE)
The Neolithic era was the final part of the stone age. It allowed the first development of farming to travel in the east & around the world. This era was so significant because it allowed a change to hunting/gathering to agriculture and settlement which caused an increase in population. -
4000 BCE
Sumerian civilization (4000 BCE)
By about 4000 BCE, the Sumerians had organized themselves into several city-states that were spread throughout the southern part of the region. These city-states were independent of one another and were fully self-reliant centers, each surrounding a temple that was dedicated to god or goddess specific to that city-state. -
Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE
Height of Egyptian civilization (3100 BCE - 30 BCE)
This was the time when the civilization reached its height of wealth international prestige, and military might. -
Period: 2500 BCE to 609 BCE
Assyrian empire established (2500 BC - 609 BC)
The Assyrian had many accomplishments such as Military strength, and technological inventions. -
Period: 2300 BCE to 2100 BCE
Akkadian civilization (2300 BC - 2100 BC)
The Akkadian Empire was an ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in ancient Mesopotamia, which united all the indigenous Akkadian speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers under one rule within a multilingual empire. -
Period: 1900 BCE to 1800 BCE
Aryans arrive in Indus River valley (1900 - 1800 BCE)
The Aryans migrated into the Indian subcontinent. Coming from central Asia, this large group of nomadic cattle herders crossed the Hindu Kush Mountains and came in contact with the Indus Valley Civilization. -
Period: 1800 BCE to 1700 BCE
Indus River civilization in decline (1800 BCE - 1700 BCE)
The Indus Valley Civilization was an ancient civilization located in what is Pakistan and northwest India today, on the fertile floodplain of the Indus River and its vicinity. They had a highly developed city life; many houses had wells and bathrooms as well as an elaborate underground drainage system. -
Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE
Hammurabi’s Code (1792 - 1750 BC)
The code was created to protect the “weak” and to deal with criminal and civil matters. The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes, proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi. -
Period: 1766 BCE to 1122 BCE
Shang Dynasty (1766 - 1122 BCE)
The emperors of the Shang Dynasty ruled over ancient China. During this time the Shang people used bronze to make objects ranging from jewelry to weapons. The Shang were the first people of China to develop writing. Their writing system consisted of over 2000 symbols. They developed a method of writing called logograph which uses characters to represent words. They also created the bronze and farming. -
1500 BCE
Hittites get iron and chariots (1500 BC)
The Hittites were charioteers who wrote manuals on horsemanship. Ninth century B.C. stone reliefs show Hittite warriors in chariots. "Charioteers were the first great aggressors in human history," the historian Jack Keegan wrote. They developed an advanced chariot and were one of the first cultures to smelt iron and forge it I to weapons and tools. -
Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE
Olmec civilization established in Mesoamerica (1200 BCE - 400 BCE)
The earliest known major civilization in Mesoamerica following a progressive development in Soconusco. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco. -
Period: 1020 BCE to 921 BCE
Hebrews establish Israel (1020 - 921 BCE)
During this time the belief that there is only one God, the creator of the universe. Abraham and Moses led the Hebrews to Canaan and to a new religion. Abraham, his son Yitzhak (Isaac), and grandson Jacob (Israel) are referred to as the patriarchs of the Israelites. All three patriarchs lived in the Land of Canaan, that later came to be known as the Land of Israel. -
1000 BCE
Phoenicians create an alphabet (1000 BC)
It became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it was adopted and modified by many other cultures. -
Period: 1000 BCE to 256 BCE
Zhou Dynasty (1000 - 256 BC)
The Zhou Dynasty started the beginning of two major Chinese philosophies which is, Confucianism and Taoism. -
Period: 900 BCE to 200 BCE
Chavin civilization in Andean South America (900 BCE - 200 BCE)
It expanded in the northern and central Andes and was one of the earliest pre-Inca cultures. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast. -
626 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar rebuilds Babylon (626 BC)
He rebuilt the city with massive walls, a huge temple, and a ziggurat, and extended his rule over neighboring countries. He captured and destroyed Jerusalem and deported many Israelites in what is known as the Babylonian Captivity. -
550 BCE
Persian Empire established (550 BC)
They created one of the first and largest. It was significant because they were the first people to unite three sites of early urban civilization (Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley) under a single government. -
Period: 492 BCE to 449 BCE
Persian Wars (Greeks v. Persians) (492 BC - 449 BC)
The Persian Empire was the largest and most powerful empire in the world at the time of the Persian Wars. They controlled land that stretched from Egypt all the way to India. The Greeks were made up of a number of city-states such as Sparta and Athens. The war was to protect each on territory but the Greeks won the war. -
Period: 480 BCE to 404 BCE
Golden Age of Pericles (480 - 404 BC)
This was a time period of economic growth and cultural flourishing. The years of relative peace between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.