World History

  • Middle East Map
    10,000 BCE

    Middle East Map

  • 5000 BCE

    Neolithic cultures begun to from in Italy

  • 4000 BCE

    Egypt gets two large kingdoms

  • 3350 BCE

    Sumerians made the first Wagon Wheel

  • Bronze was developed
    3300 BCE

    Bronze was developed

  • Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE

    The Bronze Age

  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE

    The Old Kingdom

  • The Step Pyramid was built
    2600 BCE

    The Step Pyramid was built

  • The Hittites conquered the people of Asia Minor
    2000 BCE

    The Hittites conquered the people of Asia Minor

  • 2000 BCE

    Sumerians developed a number system

  • 1800 BCE

    Hammurabi's effort make justice appear in the land

  • The Hittites developed iron
    1600 BCE

    The Hittites developed iron

  • Moses led his people out of Egypt
    1200 BCE

    Moses led his people out of Egypt

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 500 BCE

    The Iron Age

  • 1000 BCE

    Phoneicians develop an alphabet

  • Period: 900 BCE to 500 BCE

    The Etruscans ruled northern Italy

  • The first Olympic Games
    776 BCE

    The first Olympic Games

  • Romulus was building a wall
    753 BCE

    Romulus was building a wall

  • Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE

    Darius the great rules

  • Socrates was born
    470 BCE

    Socrates was born

  • Hippocrates diagnosed and treated illnesses
    400 BCE

    Hippocrates diagnosed and treated illnesses

  • Alexander declared himself as ruler of the Persian Empire
    331 BCE

    Alexander declared himself as ruler of the Persian Empire

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great died

  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenistic Period

  • Period: 323 BCE to 146 BCE

    Hellenic period

  • Period: 264 BCE to 146 BCE

    Rome was fighting in the Punic wars

  • 250 BCE

    Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek

  • Period: 230 BCE to 130 BCE

    Rome brought the eastern Mediterranean area under its influence

  • 45 BCE

    Julius Caeser led the Roman Army

  • 42 BCE

    Marc Antony helped defeat Caeser's assasins

  • Cleopatra lost her kingdom to the Romans
    31 BCE

    Cleopatra lost her kingdom to the Romans

  • Period: 31 BCE to 180

    Pax Romana

  • Period: 27 BCE to 14

    Augustus Caeser ruled Rome

  • 54

    Nero became emperor of Rome

  • Marcus Aurelius died
    180

    Marcus Aurelius died

  • Period: 264 to 146

    The Punic Wars

  • Constantine bulit Constantinople
    330

    Constantine bulit Constantinople

  • 378

    The Visigoths rebelled against Roman rule

  • 395

    The Roman Empire was divided

  • Rome abandoned Britain
    400

    Rome abandoned Britain

  • 410

    Germanic barbarian invasion

  • 451

    Huns barbarian invasion

  • Odoacer seized control of Rome
    476

    Odoacer seized control of Rome

  • Fall of Rome
    476

    Fall of Rome

  • Period: 476 to 1500

    The Middle Ages

  • 527

    Justinian became Emperor

  • The birth of Muhammad
    570

    The birth of Muhammad

  • Heavy plow was made
    600

    Heavy plow was made

  • Period: 622 to 750

    Historic Islamic jihads

  • Islamic conquests
    750

    Islamic conquests

  • Period: 800 to 812

    Charlemagne creates and rules Christian Roman Empire

  • Period: 800 to 1050

    Viking invasions

  • The feudal system
    882

    The feudal system

  • Period: 962 to

    The Holy Roman Empire

  • Windmills were widely used
    1000

    Windmills were widely used

  • 1012

    King David ruled at Jerusalem

  • Period: 1096 to 1099

    First Crusade

  • Merchant guilds
    1100

    Merchant guilds

  • Holy Roman Empire Map
    1100

    Holy Roman Empire Map

  • Period: 1100 to 1298

    Trade fairs

  • Period: 1147 to 1149

    Second Crusade

  • Period: 1189 to 1192

    Third Crusade

  • 1200

    Bills of exchange

  • 1200

    Monarchs levied taxes

  • Ghengis Khan's invasions
    1211

    Ghengis Khan's invasions

  • Period: 1216 to 1272

    "New social class--the middle class--was emerging"

  • 1291

    Demand for spices, sugar, melons, silk, and other items increased after the Crusades

  • Some nobles died in the Crusades so kings took their land
    1291

    Some nobles died in the Crusades so kings took their land

  • The Italian Renaissance helped improve painting techniques
    1300

    The Italian Renaissance helped improve painting techniques

  • Period: 1300 to

    The Third Estate had lower and middle class

  • Period: 1300 to

    The First Estate had Clergy

  • Period: 1300 to

    The Second Estate had rich nobles

  • Period: 1350 to

    The Renaissance

  • 1400

    The Italian Renaissance helped improve scholars' understanding of Greek and Latin

  • The area that Slavs occupied
    1453

    The area that Slavs occupied

  • Period: 1484 to 1531

    Huldrych Zwingli lived

  • 1500

    Reformation ideas reached England

  • Simple drawing of how mercantilism works
    1500

    Simple drawing of how mercantilism works

  • The Reformation Began
    1517

    The Reformation Began

  • 1550

    A new style of art called baroque was made in the Reformation

  • Europe divided from the Reformation
    1555

    Europe divided from the Reformation

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

  • Period: to

    The American Revolution

  • The Battle of Yorktown

    The Battle of Yorktown

  • The Start of the French Revolution

    The Start of the French Revolution

  • The end of the French Revolution

    The end of the French Revolution

  • Period: to

    Napoleon ruled France

  • Beginnings of nationalism