Events of the ancient world

Events

Summerian empire of Ur

2100 BC - 2000 BC

Minoan civilization on Crete

2000 BC - 1400 BC

Mergence of Indo European peoples

1700 BC - 1500 BC

Mycenaean

1600 BC - 1100 BC

New Egyptian kingdom

1567 BC - 1069 BC

Beginning of Iron age

1200 BC

Emergence of Dorian Greeks

1200 BC

Fall of Troy

1154 BC

"Dark ages" of ancient Greece

1120 BC - 800 BC

Era of Homer

800 BC - 700 BC

Assyrian empire

745 BC

The beginning of the rise of tyrants

650 BC

New Babylonian empire

612 BC - 539 BC

Thales

590 BC

Pythagoras active

582 BC - 507 BC

Persian empire

539 BC - 330 BC

Sophocles

496 BC

Classical era of art

490 BC - 336 BC

Persian wars

490 BC - 479 BC

Socrates

469 bc - 399 bc

Parthenon completed

432 BC

Peloponnesian War

431 BC - 404 BC

Aristotle

384 BC - 322 BC

Reign of Phillip of Macedon

359 BC - 336 BC

Rome gains control over Egypt and Greece

146 BC