Timeline Project

Was the shift for early people from hunting & gathering to agriculture. Which led people to stay in a permanent settlement, establish social classes and lead to civilizations.

It was a republic, made up of wealthy male citizens, in which they were only allowed to vote. It was not a democracy.

Bantu speakers spread out from the border of Nigeria and Cameroon a little before 500 BCE. As they spread they brought with them knowledge of iron smelting, agriculture and cattle.

Very powerful dynasty in China that came after the Qin Dynasty. Started by Liu Bang and impacted China's heritage. It also is the Dynasty that created the Great Wall.

The Romans having become a christian empire they converted other countries or regions to Christianity. Especially, in North Africa as most of the population was converted.

Founded by Chandra Gupta , was split to better enforce laws. Rulers expanded trade, used agricultural productivity and controlled iron deposits. The empire did not have much influence to rule the outlying provinces same as the Mauryan empire, so they heavily relied on provincial.

The second of one of the great Sunnite dynasties, they destroyed the Umayyad clan and took over. The Abbasid dynasty had a unique culture in which new invention we use now came from, such as Arabic numerals and Algebra. The fall of the Abbasid empire was due to the conquest of the mongols.

The first attempt to take back the holy land, Jerusalem, by Pope Urban 2. The crusaders attacked the holy land, destroying almost everything and killing people regardless of who it was.

The Mongol empire started with Genghis Khan as he united the nomadic Mongols and took over land one after another. The Mongols were merciless in battle and had a large army, mostly with archers on horses. After Genghis Khan the Mongol empire was divided into four sections each ruled by one of Genghis Khan's offsprings. The Mongol empire was one of the greatest conquering empires in history.

Marco Polo spent 17 years in China in the Palace, when he was young. He later returned to China and did a task to travel the Silk Road that the emperor asked of him. He later wrote about his journey in a book.