Classical Period (600 BCE to 600 CE)

Events

Olmecs

1200 BC - 400 BC

Bantu Migrations

1000 BCE - 1700 CE

Chavin

1000 BCE - 300 BCE

Classic Greece

800 BCE - 350 BCE

Beginning of Daoism

600 BCE

Achaemenid Empire

558 BCE - 330 BCE

Beginning of Confucianism

551 BCE

Beginnings of Buddhism

500 BCE

Persian Wars

499 BCE - 449 BCE

Peloponnesian War

431 BC - 404 BC

Period of the Warring States

403 BCE - 221 BCE

Alexander of Macedon

356 B.C.E. - 323 B.C.E.

Hellenistic

323 BC - 30 BC

Seleucid Empire

323 BC - 83 BC

Mauryan Dynasty

321 BCE - 185 BCE

Ashoka Maurya

268 BCE - 232 BCE

Parthian Empire

247 BCE - 224 CE

Qin Dynasty

221 BCE - 206 BCE

Han Dynasty

206 BC - 220 AD

Julius Caesar

100 BC - 44 BC

Augustus Caesar

27 BCE - 14 CE

Pax Romana

27 BC - 180 AD

Beginning of Christianity

1 CE

Sasanid Empire

224 CE - 651 CE

Mayans

250 CE - 900 CE

Germanic Migrations

300 CE - 700 CE

Constantine Conversion

312 CE

Gupta Empire

320 CE - 550 CE

Byzantine Empire

330 - 1453

Roman Capital Constantinople

330 CE

Collapse of the Roman Empire

476 CE

Justinian reigns

527 CE - 565 CE

Sui Dynasty

581 - 618

Tang Dynasty

618 - 907

Umayyad

661 ce - 750 ce

Silla Dynasty

668 - 935

Abbasid Caliphate

750 - 1258

Carolingian Kingdom

751 - 987

Angkor

889 - 1431

Song Dynasty

960 - 1279

Holy Roman Empire

962 - 1806

Kingdom of Ghana

1000 - 1200

Great Schism

1054

Crusades

1095 - 1291

Ghenghis Khan

1206 CE - 1227 CE

Sultanate of Delhi

1206 - 1526

Mali

1230 - 1600

Marco Polo

1254 - 1324

Yuan Dynasty

1279 - 1368

Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca

1324

Aztec

1330 - 1521

Hundred Years War

1337 - 1453

Bubonic Plague

1347 - 1351

Ming Dynasty

1368 - 1644

Renaissance

1400 - 1600

Inca Empire

1438 - 1533

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1453

Songhai

1468 - 1592