-
250
2.5 million B.C.E
2.5 million-emergence of homo sapiens in eastern Africa -
300
1.25 million B.C.E
1 million- Emergence of Homo Erectus, an upright, tool-using human. -
355
1.25 million B.C.E
600,000-wide spread of human species across Asia, Europe, Africa; control of fire -
400
150,000 B.C.E
120,000 B.C.E- emergence of Homo sapiens spaiens, which displace other human species. -
450
30,000 B.C.E
30,000-25,000: passage of first people to Americas. -
500
10,00 B.C.E
8500-6500 B.C.E- domestication of sheep, pigs, goats, cattle -
550
10,000 B.C.E
8500-6500 B.C.E-neolithic age, development of farming in middle east. -
Jan 1, 600
8000 B.C.e
7000 B.C.E-First town at Jericho -
Jan 1, 620
5000 B.C.E
5000-2000-yangshoo culture in northern china -
Jan 1, 650
6000 B.C.E
5600 B.C.E-beans domesticated in western hemisphere -
Jan 1, 700
5000 B.C.E
5000 B.C.E- domestication of corn. -
Jan 1, 720
4000 B.C.E
4000-3000-develepment of writing, bronze metal waorking, plow in middle east. -
Jan 1, 750
4000 B.C.E
3500-1800 B.C.E- sumerian civiliazation -
Jan 1, 750
4000 B.C.E
3100-1087-founding and flowering of egyptian civilazation -
Jan 1, 1000
1000 B.C.E
800-rise of greek city states -
Jan 1, 1010
1000 B.C.E
800-1000 C.E-bantu migration, sub saharan africa -
Jan 1, 1020
1000 B.C.E
770-403- later zhou kingdom, beginning of chinas classical period. -
Jan 1, 1020
1000 B.CE
800-600- rise of greek city states, athens and sparta became dominant -
Jan 1, 1030
1000 B.C.E
c 700- homerian epics, illiad, and the odyssey, flowering of greek architecture -
Jan 1, 1030
1000 B.C.E
c1000- polynesians reach fiji, samoa -
Jan 1, 1031
1000 B.C.E
1000- independent kingdom of kush -
Jan 1, 1032
1000 B.C.E
800-400- spread of olmec civilization. cultivation of corn, potatoes, deomstication of dogs and turkeys -
Jan 1, 1033
1000 B.C.E
c300- rise of axum -
Jan 1, 1040
1000 B.C.E
550- cyrus the great forms persian empire -
Jan 1, 1050
1000
509- beginning of roman republic -
Jan 1, 1060
750 B.C.E
750-600-meroe rules egypt -
Jan 1, 1070
750 B.C.E
600-zoroastrian religoin in iran -
Jan 1, 1080
750 B.C.E
600-legendary ruler in japan. -
Jan 1, 1090
750 B.C.E
551-233 c-periods of great chinese philosophers:confucius, laozi,mencius, legalists -
Jan 1, 1100
750 B.C.E
550-formation of persiann empire -
Jan 1, 1110
750 B.C.E
5 542-483- Buddha -
Jan 1, 1120
500 B.C.E
c500- laozi and daoism -
Jan 1, 1130
500 b.C.E
c500- editing of the five classics -
Jan 1, 1130
500 B.C.E
c450- development of chinese calendar -
Jan 1, 1140
500 B.C.E
c450- development of chinese calendar -
Jan 1, 1150
500 B.C.E
402-201- era of warring states. -
Jan 1, 1160
500 B.C.E
500-449-greek wars with Persia, persia defeated -
Jan 1, 1170
500 B.C.E
500-450-beginings of roman republic -
Jan 1, 1180
500 B.C.E
470-430- athens at its height, pericles, sophocles, phidias, socrates. -
Jan 1, 1190
500 B.C.E
450- twelve tables of law -
Jan 1, 1195
500 B.C.E
431-404- peloponnesian wars -
Jan 1, 1200
500 B.C.E
359-336- philip 2 of macedonia -
Oct 13, 1210
500 B.C.E
338-323- macedonia empire, alexander the great -
Jan 1, 1220
500 B.C.E
300-1000- hellenistic period -
Jan 1, 1220
250 B.C.E
c4- birth of jesus -
Oct 13, 1225
500 B.C.E
264-146- punic wars -
Jan 1, 1230
500 B.C.E
470-430-height of athenian culture, socrates and greek philisophacle style -
Jan 1, 1240
500 B.C.E
431ff-peloponnesian wars, declin of greece. -
Jan 1, 1250
500 B.C.E
330-Alexander the great -
Jan 1, 1260
500 B.C.E
327-325-alexaner's invasion. -
Jan 1, 1270
500 B.C.E
300-100- hellenistic period -
Jan 1, 1280
500 B.C.E
300 B.C.E-900 C.E-heights of maya -
Jan 1, 1290
50 B.C.E
264-140-roman expansion in North Africa(punic wars) and eastern mediterranean. -
Jan 1, 1300
250 B.C.E
221-shi huangdi proclaimed first emperor of china. -
Jan 1, 1310
250 B.C.E
202 B.C.E-9 C.E- initial han dynasty, key technical develpoment of horse collar and water mill. -
Jan 1, 1315
250 B.C.E
220 B.C.E-200 C.E- greater buddhist influence. -
Jan 1, 1316
250 B.C.E
49- julius caesar becomes dictator on rome, assisinated in44 -
Oct 13, 1317
250 B.C.E
27- augustus caesar seizes power, rise of roman empire -
Jan 1, 1330
250 B.C.E
100-germans begin contact with rome, slavs migrate into eastern europe. -
Jan 1, 1350
1 C.E
23-220-later han dynasty, invention of paper and compass -
Jan 1, 1351
1 C.E
c30- crucifixion of jesus -
Jan 1, 1352
250 B.CE
221-202- qin dynasty, first emperor, great wall begun, single basic language. -
Jan 1, 1353
1 C.E
63- forced dissolution of independent jewish states by romans -
Jan 1, 1354
1 C.E
101-106-greatest roman spread of territory -
Jan 1, 1355
250 b.C.E
202 B.C.E- 220 C.E- han dynasty -
Jan 1, 1357
250 B.C.E
c200-introduction of ox drawn plow, horse collar, wat er mill. -
Jan 1, 1360
1 C.E
27- Augustus founds Roman Empire. -
Jan 1, 1360
250 b.C.E
141-87- reign of han wu ti, increased bureaucracy, examinations, spread of confucianism -
Jan 1, 1360
1 C.E
180- death of marcus aurekius, beginning of decline of roman empire -
Jan 1, 1360
1 C.E
100- root crops introduced to southern africa through trade -
Jan 1, 1360
1 C.E
100- beginnign of decline of han dynasty -
Jan 1, 1360
1 C.E
180- rome begins to decline -
Jan 1, 1360
1 C.E
200- extensive agricluture practice in japan. -
Jan 1, 1361
1 C.E
227- beginnign of sassanid empire in persia -
Jan 1, 1370
1 C.E
30- crucifixion of jesus -
Jan 1, 1380
1C.E
88-beginning of han decline. -
Jan 1, 1390
1 C.E
106-height of roman territory. -
Jan 1, 1400
1 C.E
180- beginning of decline of rome -
Jan 1, 1410
1 C.E
200-500- nasca culture -
Jan 1, 1420
1 C.E
200-700 - mochica culture -
Jan 1, 1430
1 C.E
200-1300- anasazi in north america -
Jan 1, 1440
1 C.E
220- last han emperor deposed -
Jan 1, 1460
250 C.E
300-declione of meroe -
Jan 1, 1461
250 C.E
284-305-reign of diocletian -
Jan 1, 1462
250 C.E
300- ethiopia adopts christianity -
Jan 1, 1462
250 C.E
312-337- reign of constatine -
Jan 1, 1462
250C.E
370-480- nomadic invasions of western europe -
Jan 1, 1464
250 C.E
400- growth of mayan civilization -
Jan 1, 1465
250 C.E
400- polynesians reach hawaii -
Jan 1, 1466
250 C.E
450- huns begin to invade india -
Jan 1, 1467
250 C.E
476- collaps of rome -
Jan 1, 1470
250 B.C.E
300- spread of buddhism -
Jan 1, 1490
250 b.C.E
300-400- yamato claim imperial control of japan. -
Jan 1, 1499
250 C.E
313- constatine adopts christianity -
Jan 1, 1500
250 C.E
300-700- rise of axum, conersion to christianity -
Jan 1, 1500
250 B.C.E
476- fall of rome -
Jan 1, 1510
250 B.C.E
300-900- intermediate horizon pd. (andes) -
Jan 1, 1520
250 B.C.E
300-1000- second wave of polynesioan migrations to hawaii. -
Jan 1, 1530
250 C.E
312-337- constatine, formation of eastern empire. apoption of christianity -
Jan 1, 1540
250 B.C.E
319-540- gupta empire -
Jan 1, 1550
250 B.C.E
400- chinese script imported -
Jan 1, 1580
401 ff-
401ff- large scale germanic invasions in roman empire -
500 C.E
451-first han invasion -
500 C.E
476- last roman emperor in west -
500 C.E
527-565- justinian eastern emperor. -
500 C.E
500- buddhism takes root in east and southeast asia -
500 C.E
580ff- spread of buddhism in japan -
500 C.E
500- formation of ghana -
500 C.E
589-618- sui dynasty -
500 C.E
600-647- harshas empire -
500 C.E
600- beginning of islam -
500 C.E
618- tang dynasty -
500 C.E
618- tang dynasty in china, glorious cultural period -
500 C.E
700 ff- spread of islam, trans sahara trade in africa -
500 C.E
700- shintoism unified into single national religion in japan -
750 C.E
800-1300- mississippian culture -
750C.E
900-polynesians to new zealand -
750 C.E
900-1200- toltecs 1000 height of kingdom of ghana, africa -
Period: to
timespan
2.5 million bce- 500 ce -
4000 B.C.E
2500-1500 B.C.E-Indus civilization in south asia -
2000 B.C.E
1850 B.C.E-origin of shangs kingdom in china -
2000 B.C.E
1800- formation of babylonian empire in middle east. -
2000 B.C.E
1700-1300 B.C.E- rise of village culture in Mesoamerica. -
2000 B.C.E
1600 B.C.E- beginning of indo-european invasions of india and parts of the mediterranean and midle east -
2000 B.C.E
1600 B.C.E-spread of civilization of crete -
2000 B.C.E
1250- moses and jewish exodus from egypt. -
1000 B.C.E
1000- germans expand southward. -
1000 B.C.E
900- maya begins -
1000 B.C.E
850-250-chavin culture -
1200 B.C.E
1029-258- zhou dynasty, introduction of a standard spoken language. -
1200 B.C.E
551-478- life of confucis -
2000 B.C.E
1700- indo european invasions of greek peninsula -
2000 B.C.E
1400- kingdom of mycenae, trojan war
