Period 2 Timeline By nab.ok Period: 800 BCE to 388 BCE Era of the Classical Greek Polis Period: 600 BCE to 500 BCE Laozi Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE Life of the Buddha Period: 558 BCE to 530 BCE Reign of Cyrus the Achaemenid Period: 558 BCE to 530 BCE Reign of Cyrus the Achaemenid Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE Confucius Period: 521 BCE to 486 BCE Reign of Darius Period: 521 BCE to 486 BCE Reign of Darius 509 BCE Establishment of the Roman Republic Period: 500 BCE to 479 BCE Persian Wars Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE Life of Socrates 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 Warring States Period: 359 BCE to 336 BCE Reign of Philip II of Macedon Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE Reign of Alexander the Great Period: 334 BCE to 330 BCE Invasion and Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander of Macedon Period: 334 BCE to 330 BCE Invasion and Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander of Macedon 327 BCE Invasion of India by Alexander the Great Period: 321 BCE to 185 BCE Mauryan Dynasty Period: 300 BCE to 200 BCE Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism to Southeast Asia Period: 298 BCE to 238 BCE Xunzi Period: 268 BCE to 232 BCE Reign of Ashoka Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE Qin Dynasty 220 BCE Collapse of the Han Dynasty Period: 206 BCE to 9 Han Dynasty (Early) Period: 100 BCE to 1 CE Civil War in Rome Period: 100 BCE to 1 CE Introduction to Buddhism in China Period: 46 BCE to 44 BCE Rule of Julius Caesar Period: 31 BCE to 14 Rise of Augustus Period: 1 CE to 270 Kushan Empire in Northern India and Central Asia Period: 25 to 220 Han Dynasty (Late) Period: 66 to 70 Jewish War Period: 224 to 651 Sasanid Dynasty Period: 313 to 337 Reign of Constantine Period: 320 to 550 Gupta Dynasty 476 Collapse of the Roman Empire