Study of Western Civilization

By wulfsoldat

  • 2,500,000 BCE - 500,000 BCE: Paleolithic

  • ~500,000 BCE: Stone Tools

  • 500,000 BCE - 10,000 BCE: Mesolithic

  • ~10,000 BCE: Fire

  • 10,000 BCE - 4,000 BCE: Neolithic

  • 8,000 BCE: Jericho

  • 7,800 BCE: Catal Hyuk

  • 6,000 BCE: Copper Age

  • 3,500 BCE: Bronze Age

  • 3,500 BCE - 3,000 BCE: Sumeria

  • 3,000 BCE: Wheel

  • 3000 BCE - 2340 BCE: Sumerian Early Dynasties Age

  • 2686 BCE - 2181 BCE: Egyptian Old Kingdom

  • 2800 BCE - 1450 BCE: Minoan Empire

  • 2340 BCE - 2150 BCE: Sumeria - Akkadian Empire

  • 2055 BCE - 1550 BCE: Egyptian Middle Kingdom

  • 2340 BCE - 2279 BCE: Sumeria - Sargon

  • 2340 BCE - 2000 BCE: Sumeria - 3rd Dynasty of Ur

  • 1792 BCE - 1750 BCE: Amorites - Hammurabi

  • 1894 BCE - 1595 BCE Amorites/Old Babylonian Empire

  • 1650 BCE - 1070 BCE Egyptian Hyksos Kingdom

  • 1600 BCE - 1100 BCE: Mycenean Empire

  • 1595 BCE - 1178 BCE: Hittite Empire

  • 1550 BCE - 1070 BCE: Egyptian New Kingdom

  • 1342 BCE - 1338 BCE: Egypt -Tutankhamen

  • 1360 BCE - 605 BCE: Assyrian Empire

  • 1300 BCE - 1269 BCE: Egyptian Battle of Kadesh

  • 1279 BCE - 1213 BCE: Egypt - Ramses II

  • 1,200 BCE: Iron Age

  • 1100 BCE - 800 BCE: Greek Dark Ages

  • 1079 BCE - 931 BCE: (United) Kingdom of Israel

  • 800 BCE - 500 BCE: Greek Archaic Age

  • 900 BCE - 192 BCE: Spartan Empire

  • 931 BCE - 722 BCE: Northern Kingdom, Israel

  • 931 BCE – 586 BCE: Southern Kingdom, Judah

  • 808 BCE - 159 BCE: Macedon Empire

  • 750 BCE: Homer

  • 700 BCE - 322 BCE: Athenian Empire

  • 638 BCE - 558 BCE: Solon Makes Reforms

  • 600 BCE - 330 BCE: Persian Empire

  • 550 BCE - 486 BCE: Persia - Darius I

  • 560 BCE: Pisistratus becomes Tyrant

  • 500 BCE - 338 BCE: Greek Classical Age

  • 518 BCE - 465 BCE: Persia - Xerxes I

  • 510 BCE: Cleisthenes Overthrows Hippias

  • 545 BCE: Persians Conquer Ionian Coast

  • 490 BCE: Battle of Marathon

  • 480 BCE: Battle of Thermopylae

  • 479 BCE: Battle of Plataea

  • 460 BCE - 445 BCE: First Pelopponesian War

  • 469 BCE - 399 BCE: Socrates

  • 431 BCE - 404 BCE: Second/Great Pelopponesian War

  • 428 BCE - 348 BCE: Plato

  • 384 BCE - 322 BCE: Aristotle

  • 382 BCE – 336 BCE: Philip II

  • 338 BCE - 146 BCE: Greek Hellenistic Age

  • 356 BCE – 323 BCE: Alexander the Great

  • 319 BCE – 275 BCE: Wars of the Diadochi

  • 305 BCE - 30 BCE: Ptolemaic Dynasty

  • 312 BCE – 63 BCE: Seleucid Dynasty

  • 306 BC – 168 BC: Antigonid Dynasty

  • 282 BCE – 133 BCE: Attalid Dynasty