Innovations

Foundations

First grand Roman highways

312

Mesopotamia Incorporated into Persian Empire

500

Assyrian conquest of Israel

722

Chavin Religious cult in Peru

900

Beginning Of ironworking in Sub-Saharan Africa

1000

Incan Roads

1453 - 1533

Babylonian Empire

1500 - 1900

Reign of Hammurabi

1750 - 1792

Cultivation of maize,squash,and beans in Mesoamerica

2000 - 3000

Period of independent Sumerian city-staes

2350 - 3200

First Sumerian law codes Mesopotamian

2500

Nubian kingdom of kush established

2500

Earliest cuneiform texts Mesoptamian

3000

Nubian Kingdom of ta-seti

3200 - 3400

Domestication Of horses in Ukraine/sothern Russia

4000

rice,millet,soybeans China

5000 - 6500

Small-scale states in Sudanic Africa

5000

Beginning of irrigated agriculture

6000

First Agricultural Breakthrough

7000 - 9000

Cattle Herding in Sudanic Africa

9000

Last of Ice Age

10000 - 16000

Lascaux Cave Paintings in Southern France

15000

Classical

Daoism

201 - 600

Greek Rationalisn

301 - 500

Hellenism

334 - 63

Confucianism

479 - 551

Buddhism

501 - 600

Republic

509 - 31

Post-Classical

1200 - 1453

Christianity

23 - 28