World History Timeline

By 2019jduvall
  • Start of Agriculture
    10,000 BCE

    Start of Agriculture

    Gradual transition away from hunter gatherer lifestyle begins roughly around this time
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Mesopotamian civilization

    One of the first civilizations, started in the "fertile crescent"
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Indus River Valley Civilization

  • Development of Urban centers
    4000 BCE

    Development of Urban centers

  • Invention of the wheel
    3500 BCE

    Invention of the wheel

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Bronze age

    (In the Indus river valley)
  • Egypt founded
    3100 BCE

    Egypt founded

  • Great Pyramid at Giza built
    2767 BCE

    Great Pyramid at Giza built

  • Period: 2100 BCE to 221 BCE

    Early China

  • Sumerians and Babylonian base 10 number system
    2000 BCE

    Sumerians and Babylonian base 10 number system

  • Stonehenge created
    1848 BCE

    Stonehenge created

    Stones moved with apparently minimal technology, created as a celestial clock
  • Begining of Chinese Writing
    1600 BCE

    Begining of Chinese Writing

  • Indian Vedas Written
    1400 BCE

    Indian Vedas Written

    Originally passed down orally, important part of the Hindu religion
  • Period: 950 BCE to

    Solomonic Dynasty

    The unbroken line of kings/queens claiming to have a direct blood descendant from King Solomon
  • Period: 753 BCE to 509 BCE

    Roman Monarcy

  • Period: 585 BCE to 300 BCE

    Golden Age of Greek Philosophers

    The concept of "science" was first made popular during this period
  • Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE

    Confucius

  • Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

    Roman Republic

  • Period: 470 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

  • Period: 428 BCE to 347 BCE

    Plato

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

  • Period: 221 BCE to 581

    Early Imperial China

  • Period: 27 BCE to 476

    Roman Empire

  • Period: 330 to 1453

    Byzantine Empire

  • Period: 570 to 1250

    Medieval Islam

  • Period: 581 to 1279

    Classical China

  • Period: 750 to 1542

    Mayan Civilization

  • Period: 900 to 1270

    Zagwe Dynasty

  • Invention of Gunpower
    950

    Invention of Gunpower

  • Introduction of Rice Cultivation in China
    1012

    Introduction of Rice Cultivation in China

  • The Great Schism
    1054

    The Great Schism

  • Period: 1095 to 1291

    The Crusades

    DEUS VULT
  • Period: 1279 to

    Modern China

  • Period: 1300 to 1521

    Aztec Civilization

  • Period: 1438 to 1533

    Inca Civilization

  • Spanish invasion of Central America
    1500

    Spanish invasion of Central America