WHT1

By KillerCrush
  • 7000 BCE

    Ferile Crescent

    Ferile Crescent
  • 7000 BCE

    Fertile Crescent

    Fertile Crescent
  • 7000 BCE

    Empires of the Middle East

    Empires of the Middle East
  • 7000 BCE

    Middle East

    Middle East
  • 7000 BCE

    Mesopotamia

    Mesopotamia
  • 3500 BCE

    Sumerians arrived in Mesopotamia

    Sumerians arrived in Mesopotamia
  • Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE

    The Bronze Age

    This is the age when people started using bronze tools and weapons and developed systems and cities.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ziggurats

    Ziggurats
    Ziggurats, temples made of sun-dried brick and decorated with colored tiles, were built in every Sumerians' cities.
  • 2500 BCE

    Indo-European

    Indo-European
    The name given to the early language and people who spoke it is Indo-European because the people settled in areas from India to Europe. Almost every modern languages spoken in Europe root back to Indo-European.
  • Period: 2500 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Minoan Civilization

    Flourished
  • 2000 BCE

    Metal Plows

    Metal Plows
    The Sumerians used copper and tin to create copper. They used that to make metal plows.
  • 2000 BCE

    The Hittites conquered the local people of Asia Minor

  • 1850 BCE

    Oldest epic poem, Gilgamesh, was written

    Oldest epic poem, Gilgamesh, was written
  • 1770 BCE

    Hammurabi

    Hammurabi
    Hammurabi's, ruler of Mesopotamia, greatest achievement was "to make justice appear in the land."
  • 1650 BCE

    Hittite Kings assembled fearsome armies that wield iron weapons

  • 1600 BCE

    The First Dynasty of the New Kingdom

    The First Dynasty of the New Kingdom
    Ahmose, an Egyptian prince, drove the Hyksos out with his army and founded the first dynasty of the New Kingdom. Adapted the title Pharaoh to mean ruler.
  • 1200 BCE

    Moses and God

    Moses and the Israelites pledged to reject all gods other than the one true God and his laws.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Pharaohs worked to restore Egypt's prestige

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Exodus

    Moses led his people out of Egypt in an exodus to the Sinai Desert.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE

    The Iron Age

    This is the time period when people started to use iron for tools and weapons. They also learned about steel.
  • 1100 BCE

    Hieroglyphics

    Hieroglyphics
    Hieroglyphics, the Egyptians carved picture symbols on slate pieces, were no longer used due to the decline of Egypt.
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 750 BCE

    The "Dark Age"

    overseas trade stopped, poverty increased, and people lost a bunch of their practical skills like writing and craft making.
  • 1000 BCE

    Alphabet was developed by the Phoenicians

    Alphabet was developed by the Phoenicians
  • 900 BCE

    The Etruscans

    ruled northern Italy from the plains of Etruria
    900-500 B.C.
  • 800 BCE

    Sparta's Government

    Sparta's Government
    set up by a lawmaker named Lycurgus.
  • 753 BCE

    Romulus & Remus

    built the wall of a city on a hill overlooking the Tiber River. His brother Remus who was on the opposite side of the wall, jumped over and Romulus killed him.
    "So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements."
    Rome became his namesake city.
  • Period: 700 BCE to 600 BCE

    Homer

    A blind poet, composed Iliad and Odyssey during the Trojan war time period.
  • Period: 700 BCE to 336 BCE

    Hellenic

  • 621 BCE

    Draco

    Draco
    issued an improved code of laws for Athens.
  • 600 BCE

    Greek Colonies

    Greek Colonies
    supplied the Greek mainland with grain to help feed the overcrowded city-states.
  • 600 BCE

    Athens

    –named after the Goddess Athena–started having its governing methods diverge with Sparta.
  • 594 BCE

    Solon

    Solon
    poet lawmaker who became the leader of Athens.
  • 525 BCE

    Cyrus's son, Cambyses, conquered Egypt

  • 470 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates
    Born 470 B.C. to a poor family. One of the greatest Greek philosophers.
  • Period: 461 BCE to 429 BCE

    The Golden Age of Athens

    most Greek achievements in the arts and sciences took place in Athens during this time.
  • 450 BCE

    Roman Religion

    Roman gods were influenced by Greek gods like Zeus and Athena. They believed in nature spirits.
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

    Athenians seemed as if they would last forever, but the Spartans made a deal with the Persians to return to their control for gold. In 430 B.C. a plague weakened Athens.
  • 430 BCE

    Greek Tragedians

    tragedians are writers of tragedies.
    Aeschylus – wrote 90 plays
    Sophocles – lived through most of the Peloponnesian war.
    Euripides – rareky dealt with the influence of the gods
  • 429 BCE

    Pericles died

    Pericles died
    the Athenian general
  • 404 BCE

    Spartan's defeated Athenians

    Spartan's defeated Athenians
  • 400 BCE

    Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism

    The teachings of Buddha, Confucius, and Laozi.
  • 380 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    The third great philosopher of ancient Greece. Wrote more than 200 books.
  • 333 BCE

    Alexander The Great Became King of Macedonia

    Alexander The Great Became King of Macedonia
  • Period: 323 BCE to 32 BCE

    Hellenistic period

  • 300 BCE

    Menander

    Menander
    Hellenistic play-write. "We live not as we will, but as we can."
  • 300 BCE

    Great Developments in Mathematics and Physics

    During the Hellenistic Period
  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    First Punic War

  • 250 BCE

    Zeno founded Stoicism

    Zeno founded Stoicism
    Stoics believed what happened to people was governed by natural laws.
  • Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE

    Second Punic War

    Campaigns in Sicily and Spain. The war in Africa.
  • 216 BCE

    Rome defeated Carthage in three Punic Wars

    Scipio – most famous for defeating Hannibal of Carthage at the Battle of Zama.
  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    Third Punic War

  • 133 BCE

    Tiberius Gracchus

    said to give land to the poor. Was killed in a street fight.
  • 123 BCE

    Gaius Cracchus

    proposed the same idea about giving land to the poor, but was also murdered
  • 100 BCE

    The Republic in Crisis

    There were too many slaves. They were driving out the small farmers and workers who then fled to the cities for jobs.
  • 100 BCE

    Slave Labor Replaced Paid Labor

    contributed to the fall of Rome
  • Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar

    conquered Gaul
    extended Roman rule to the Atlantic Ocean
    won a civil war
    created the Julian calendar
    Caesar passed legislation on provincial administration and tax collection
  • 44 BCE

    Caesar's Death

    contributed to the fall of Rome:
    After his death, his grandnephew and two of his government officials split up the Roman world
  • Period: 31 BCE to 169

    Pax Romana

    Roman Peace.
    lasted 200 years
  • 27 BCE

    Augustus Caesar

    laid foundation for the Roman Empire
    reigned for 40 years: 27 B.C. to 14 A.D.
    rebuilt the city
    became patron of the arts
    introduced many reforms to the empire
  • Period: 14 to 68

    Julio-Claudian Emperors

    the four emperors who first showed promise but later showed their faults
    Tiberius (14 A.D.) – accused innocent of treason against him.
    Caligula (37 A.D.) – became mentally disturbed and was killed.
    Claudius (41 A.D.) – renowned scholar, but had difficulty focusing on affairs of state.
    Nero (54 A.D.) – cruel and insane. sentenced to death in 68 A.D.
  • Period: 100 to 299

    Barbarian Invasions

    Germans sought warmer climate and grazing land. They were also fleeing the Huns.
  • 200

    Reforms in rome

    Diocletian and Constantine struggled to stop the empires decline, their reforms failed.
  • 312

    Christianity in the Roman Empire​

    Jews were treated cruelly but were still allowed to practice their religion.​ When Jesus died, his disciples spread word that he had visited them. Soon Christianity started to spread.​ Constantine ordered his soldiers to put crosses on their shield and when they won the war, Christianity was adopted by Rome​
  • 400

    The Huns

    nomadic group of warriors who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe
  • 476

    THE FALL OF ROME!!!

  • Sir Authur Evans unearthed the remains of Minoan civilization