Apwh #1

Timeline of Periods 1&2

Period 1

Years 8000B.C - 600BC

Agricultural Revolution

10,000 B.C

Also the Neolitic period in which many civilizations began settling down into perminent farming communities along rivers.

Indus Valley

3300 bc

Mesopotamia

3200 bc - 600 ad

Major civilation in the Middle East along the Euphratie and Tigris rivers.

Ancient Egypt

3150 bc - 600 bc

Hinduism

3000 bc

Began in the Indus Valley with the Verdas.

Bantu Migrations

2000 bc - 1000 ad

Hammurabi's Code

1772 bc

Shang Dynasty

1750 bc - 1027 bc

The "fictional" dynasty of China

Olmecs

1200 bc - 400 bc

Predecesors to the Mayans

Chavin

900 bc - 250 bc

Predecessors to the Incas

Judaism

535 bc

The first monotheistic religion

Period 2

Years 600BCE - 600CE

Greece(Athens)

8000 bc

Zhou Dynasty

1027 bc - 221 bc

Greece(Sparta)

900 bc - 192 bc

Daoism

604 bc - 531 bc

Buddhism

563 bc - 483 bc

Confucianism

551 bc - 479 bc

Roman Republic

507 bc - 31 bc

Persian Wars

492 bc - 449 bc

Legalism

475 bc - 221 bc

Alexander the Great

356 bc - 323 bc

Maurya

322 bc - 185 bc

Silk Roads

226 bc

Qin

221 bc - 206 bc

Roman Empire

27 bc - 1453 ad

Pax Romana

20 bc - 180 ce

Indian Ocean Trade

5 ce

Christianity

29 ce

(after the death of Jesus)

Han

206 - 220

Gupta

320 ce - 550 ce