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Prehistory
13.8 Billion - Universe, Big bang4.6 Billion - Earth formation40 million - Primates7 million - Separation of Hominae & other primates4-3 million - Australopithecus2.5 million - Appearance of the genus homo2 million - Homo habilis, Homo erectus Stone Tools, Old Stone Age (paleolithic) - 12,000 BCE280,000 - Homosapiens80,000 - Migration out of Africa to Eurupe, Asia, Oceania16,000 - Migration to America10,000 - Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)4,000
Mesopotamia
6000 Semetic Migration. Settlements, irrigation4000 Sumerian civilization arisen, 100k population3200 Dozen cities (Ur, Eridu, Uruk, Lagash, etc)3000 Noble Councils replaced by Lugals, kings2334 Sargon of Akkad's Empire2193 1762 Neo-Babylonian Empire, Hammurabi1600 1300 Assyrian Empire612
Egypt
10000 Sahara desert was a grassy steppe land
9000 East Sudan domesticated cattle and became nomadic herders5000 Sahara becomes uninhabitable3100 Archaic Period, Early Dynastic Period2660 Old Kingdom2160 First Intermediate Period2040 Middle Kingdom1650 Second Intermediate Period, Hyksos Interlude1550 New Kingdom1070 Third Intermediate Period
China
5000 Yangshao Society in Yellow River Valley2000 Xia Dynasty1766 Shang Dynasty1045 Zhao dynasty771 Spring and Autumn Era (nomadic invasion)403 Warring States Era221 Qin Dynasty
206 Former Han Dynasty
9 CE Wang Mang
25 CE Later Han Dynasty220 CE Three Kingdoms
India
200000 Human Occupation3000 Harappan Society19001500 The Vedic Age520 Gandhara (Achaemenid Empire), Magadha Kingdom330322 Maurya Empire185320 CE Gupta Empire550 CE
Persia
550 Achaemenid Empire547 Conquest of Lydia539 Conquest of Babylon525 Conquest of Egypt499 Greco-Persian War, Ionian Revolt492 Battle of Marathon480 Battle at Thermopylae479 Naval Battle of Salamis478 Battle of Platea449 End of Greco-Persian War330 Fall to Macedonia323 Seleucid Empire247 Parthian Empire83 CE End of Seleucid Empire, Romans Conquered224 CE End of Parthian Empire, Pressure from Roman Empire224 CE Sassanid Empire651
Greece
2000 Minoan society
1700
1600 Mycenaean Society
1100
1200 Trojan War/Sea People
800 Rise of Poleis
499 Greco-Persian War
449 Delian League
431 Peloponnesian War
403
338 Conquered by Phillip of Macedon
275 Antigonid Empire
Rome
753 Founding of Rome
509 Founding of Roman Republic
449 Twelve Tables 458 Early Republic
274 Mid-Republic
264 Punic Wars
147 Late Republic
87 Marius Takes Rome
83 Sulla Takes Rome
49 Caesar crosses Rubicon
46 Caesar makes himself dictator for life
44 Caesar assassinated
27 Octavian named Augustus
224 CE Sassanids topple Parthians
260 CE Emperor Valerian captured
286 CE Diocletian splits empire
313 CE Constantinople
410 CE Visigoths sack Rome
476 CE Odovacer deposed Romulus Augustulus
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