10699292124 | 180 CE | End of Pax Romana (200 years of Roman peace) | 0 | |
10699292125 | 600 BCE - 600 CE, 6th century BCE, the 500s | Buddha, Cyrus the Great, Confucius, Lao Tzu | 1 | |
10699292126 | 32 CE | Origins of Christianity | 2 | |
10699292127 | circa 3500 BCE | The beginning of civilization (Sumer) | 3 | |
10699292128 | circa 8000 BCE | The Neolithic Revolution, plant domestication | 4 | |
10699292129 | circa 1300 BCE | introduction of iron; Hittites | 5 | |
10699292130 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome, European Middle Ages, end of rule of law | 6 | |
10699292131 | circa 800 BCE | Olmec civilization in Latin America, parent to Incas, Mayans, and Aztecs | 7 | |
10699292132 | 333 CE | Rome splits into East and West, Constantinople is new capital in East | 8 | |
10699292133 | 3rd century BCE, the 200s | India's first empire. Chandragupta and Katilya, Quin Dynasty, Shi Haundi creates China with legalism | 9 | |
10699292134 | 202 BCE | Founding of Han dynasty, cultural peak | 10 | |
10699292135 | 312 CE | Edict of Milan, religious tolerance to Christians | 11 | |
10699292136 | 318-540 CE | Gupta India - advances in math, medicine, and science, cultural peak | 12 | |
10699292137 | 220 CE | End of Han Dynasty, rise of Buddhism; China is politically fragmented for 350 years | 13 | |
10699292138 | 323 CE | Alexander the Great, Helenizing process | 14 | |
10699292139 | 70 CE | Romans destroy Jerusalem, Jewish Diaspora | 15 | |
10699292140 | 5th century BCE (400s) | Roman Republic, 12 tablets of Roman las, Classical Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pericles | 16 | |
10699292141 | 4th century CE | domestication of the camel, camel saddle, Afroeurasia connected by trade | 17 | |
10699292142 | circa 1500 BCE | Beginnings of the Vedic Age, caste system, Hinduism | 18 | |
10706436935 | 527 CE | Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire, peak, Justinian code of law introduced, rule of law for 900 years | 19 | |
10706436936 | 589 CE | Beginning of Sui Dynasty: reintroduction of a central government to China | 20 | |
10967339944 | 618 CE | Origins of the Tang Dynasty, Silk Roads reintroduced into Chinese territory | 21 | |
10967339945 | 632 CE | Origins of Islam | 22 | |
10967339946 | circa 650-750 CE | Umayyad Caliphate; spread of Islam to the West across North Africa and East to Persia | 23 | |
10967339947 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours, Europeans defeat Muslims on the border between France and Spain and stop expansion of Islam into Western Europe | 24 | |
10967339948 | circa 750-1250 CE | Abbasid of Caliphate, Golden Age of Islam, advances in math, science, art, banking, etc. | 25 | |
10967339949 | 800 CE | Rule of Charlemagne & the beginnings of the Holy Roman Empire, lasts until 1919, most unified Europe has been under one government since the collapse of Rome | 26 | |
10967339950 | circa 1000 CE | Peak of Ghana, West African Kingdom wealthy from trade in gold and salt | 27 | |
10967339951 | 1054 CE | The Great Schism, the first split in Christian faith, West is the Roman Catholic Church and East is Orthodox | 28 | |
10967339952 | 1066 CE | Battle of Hastings, start of centralized government in Europe | 29 | |
10967339953 | 1095 CE | First Crusade, between Europeans and Muslims, trade routes reemerge, information and intellectual achievements come to Europe | 30 | |
10967339954 | 1130-1200 CE | Shu Xi, most important philosopher since Confucius- Neo-Confucianism, Confucianism with Daoist and Buddhist elements | 31 | |
10967339955 | 1206 CE | Origins of the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, largest empire of all time and the first to give true religious tolerance | 32 | |
10967339956 | 1271-1295 CE | Marco Polo travels the Silk Roads and China, brings back Chinese information to Europe, becomes a member of Kublikan's Royal Court | 33 | |
10967339957 | 1324 CE | Kingdom of Mali, King Mansa Musa is the richest man in all of world history, controls salt and gold, Timbuktu is an intellectual center | 34 | |
10967339958 | 1325-1349 CE | Travels of Ibn Battuta, the "Muslim Marco Polo", travels through the Islamic World and Africa keeping a journal | 35 | |
10967339959 | 1347-1348 CE | Bubonic Plague kills 1/3 of the people in Europe | 36 | |
10967339960 | 1405 CE | Zheng He (the Christopher Columbus of China) travels Southeast Africa and the Indian Ocean in seven trips with tens of thousands of sailors on dozens of ships | 37 | |
10967339961 | 1433 CE | China closes its borders, builds the Great Wall (Ming Dynasty), misses the science revolution | 38 | |
10967339962 | circa 1450 CE | Europe invents the printing press, 500 years after China | 39 | |
10967339963 | circa 1450 CE | Great Zimbabwe collapses | 40 | |
10967339964 | circa 1450 CE | Byzantine Empire collapses | 41 | |
11184429650 | 800 CE | Collapse of the Mayans | 42 | |
11184429651 | 1325 CE | Aztec Empire established | 43 | |
11184429652 | 1523 CE | Aztec Empire falls | 44 | |
11184520956 | 1453 CE | Collapse of the Inca | 45 |
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