Global 3000 BC - 2000 AD

small farming communities develop

Bronze Age in Europe

Height of Minoan civilization (Knossos)

Greeks colonize the Mediterranean

rise of Greek city-states

Roman Republic established

Age of Pericles begins

Peloponnesian War (Athens v. Sparta)

Alexander the Great conquers the Persian empire

Hellenistic Age begins

Hannibal invades Italy during the Punic Wars

Greek dominance ends in the Mediterranean

Pax Romana begins with emperor Augustus

Jewish persecution begins

Constantinople becomes capital of Eastern Rome

Emperor Theodosius makes Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire

Romans battle Hun invaders

Western Roman empire falls

Clovis conquered Gual

Franks dominate western Europe

Justinian begins his rule

Frankish forces defeat Muslim armies at Tours

Charlemagne is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III

economy begins to recover

Yarsolav the Wise begins in Kiev

Norman conquest William of Normandy defeats Anglo Saxons at Hastings

Domesday Book William I used this survey for taxation

First cruade

Common Law Henry II lays foundation for English legal system

Dominican and Franciscan orders are founded

King Johns signs Magna Carta at sword point (limits power)

Model Parliament Edward I summons Parliament, which includes representatives of common people

Renaissance begins in Italian city-states

Estates General set up by Phillip II

Black Death breaks in Italy

Joan of Arc beat England

Medici family controls Florence

first Gutenberg Bible is made with printing press

Ivan the Great reigns

Spanish complete the Reconquista

Vasco de Gama reaches India

Leo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa

Portugal seizes Malacca

Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in wittenberg, Germany

Ferdinand Magellan's fleet circumnavigates the globe

Phillip II king of Spain

Romanov dynasty

religious conflict between German Protestants

Galileo is tired before the Inquisition

Dutch seize Malacca from Portugal

English Civil War

Czar Peter the Great of Russia tours Europe

King Louis XIV dies

defeat French at Qubec

Russia, Prussia, Austria compete for Poland

development of Chinese writing

Shang dynasty in China emerges
gain control of Huang He

Zhou over throw the Shang

Israel is established
Judaism

Confucius is born

Shi Huangdi completes his unification of China
Great Wall of China

paper invented in Han China

Buddhism spreads to China

Tang dynasty begins

Shilla rulers unite Korea

royal court moves to Heian

Mongol conquest of China is complete

Choson dynasty

Tokugawa shogunate

Qianlong begins reign

Sumerian city-states thrive

Indus Valley civilization (Mohenjo-Daro)

Aryans cross into India

Assyrians expand power (Mesopotamia)

Buddha is born

Persian empire created

write down sacred texts - Vedas

Asoka emperor of Maurya

Gupta Golden Age

Muhammad goes from Mecca to Yathrib

Abbassid dynasty (Abu al-Abbas)

Christians capture Jerusalem from Muslims

Muslims set up the Delhi Sultanate (northern India)

Suleiman becomes ruler of the Ottoman
golden age yay