Mr. Grande's Big History

From the Neolithic Revolution to Sir Duke Grande III

Big History

Neolithic Revolution

8000 BCE - 5000 BCE

Period of time when nomadic hunter-gatherers settled in river valleys to domesticate plants and animals. They produced surplus food and began to trade, develop hierarchy, produce a soldier class which engaged in warfare and built empires. The steady food source resulted in longer lives.

Axial Age

800 BCE - 200 BCE

Period when mature societies were more urban and people began to consider questions about their existence, like "what happens after I die?" This led to a growing concern about morality. It's the period of time when Hinduism and Judaism reform--the priest caste become less important, and the role that average people have to follow ethical rules is more important. The Torah--a moral document is written. Dharma in Hinduism is stressed. Buddhism develops the 8-fold path. Moral philosophies in China develop--Daosim, Confucianism and Legalism. Ancient Greek philosophy develops ideas about democracy and a good society. The ground work for Christianity, and later Islam, is set.

East Asia

Indian Subcontinent

Gupta Empire: Hinduism Transforms

320 CE - 550 CE

Islamic Core

Camel domesticated in Arabia

1000 BCE

Monasticism develoops in Egypt

340 CE

Muhammad

570 CE - 632 CE

Revelation of Qur'an

610 CE

Revelation of the Qur'an

610 CE

Hijrah

622 CE

Muhammad and his followers flee Mecca to Yathrib (Medina)

Hijrah to Yathrib

622 CE

Islamic calendar begins

Muslim conquest of Mecca

630 CE

Qur'an is collected and edited

650 CE

Ali is assassinated

661 CE

Origins of Shia Islam

Umayyad Dynasty

661 CE

Dome of the Rock

691 CE

Berber armies invade Spain

711 CE

Abbasid Dynasty

750 CE

Salah as-Din defeats Crusaders

1187 CE

Captures Jerusalem

Mongols and Abbasid Dynasty

1258 CE

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1451 CE

Ancient Mediterranean and Latin Christendom

Use of papyrus to write

2500 BCE

Polis Made political unit in Greece

750 BCE

Spartan dominance

600 BCE - 371 BCE

Rome becomes a Republic

509 BCE

Greece's Classical Period

480 BCE - 323 BCE

Socrates

469 BCE - 439 BCE

Pericles' rude in Athens

461 BCE - 429 BCE

Parthenon built

447 BCE - 432 BCE

Peloponnesian War (Athens vs. Sparta)

431 BCE - 404 BCE

Plato

427 BCE - 327 BCE

Aristotle

384 BCE - 322 BCE

Alexander the Great rules

336 BCE - 323 BCE

Alexander reaches Indus River

326 BCE

Julius Caesar is dictator

59 BCE - 44 BCE

Jesus of Nazareth

5 BCE - 36 CE

Pax Romana

27 CE - 180 CE

Paul of Tarsus' missions

45 CE - 58 CE

Judean revolt against Rome

67 CE - 70 CE

Edict of Milan

313 CE

Constantine moves Roman capital to Constantinople

324 CE

Theodosian Code

380 CE

Roman Empire Collapses

476 CE

Monastic rules of St Benedict

529 CE

Battle of Tours (Poitier)

732 CE

Great Schism divides Church

1054 CE

First Papermaking factory in Europe

1056 CE

Jativa, Spain

Norman Conquest

1066 CE

Crusades

1096 CE - 1291 CE

Gothic style emerges

1100 CE

Magna Carta

1215 CE

Italian Renaissance

1300 CE

Leonardo da Vinci

1452 CE - 1519 CE

Gutenberg prints first bible

1455 CE

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 CE - 1543 CE

Michelangelo

1475 CE - 1564 CE

Spanish Inquisition begins

1480 CE

Jewish expulsion from Spain

1492 CE

Martin Luther beings Reformation

1517 CE

William Shakespeare

1564 CE - 1616 CE

John Locke

1632 CE - 1704 CE

Sir Duke Grande III

1725 CE - 1790 CE

MR GRANDE IS THE BEST TEACHER !

Note: birthday is approximate. For more info: Sir Duke Grande III

Diderot's Encyclopedie

1750 CE - 1770 CE

Declaration of Independence

1776 CE

Pre-Columbian Americas

Indian Subcontinent

Harrapan Civilization across Indus River

2501 BCE

Indo-European Migration to India

1700 BCE - 1200 BCE

Aryan Caste System develops

1010 BCE - 1000 BCE

Vedas are written

700 BCE - 500 bce

Mauryan Empires

324 BCE - 124 bce

Hinduism is formed by

300 BCE

Patanjali & 8 limbs of yoga

100 bce

Gupta Empire

320 - 550

Hinduism transforms

East Asia

Zhou Dynasty

1027 bce - 221 bce

Era of Warring states

480 bce - 221 bce

Qin Dynasty

221 bce - 206 bce

Han Dynasty

206 BCE

paper invented in China

105 BCE

Tang Dynasty

618 - 907

Song Dynasty

907 - 1279

Mongol conquests in Eurasia

1215 - 1283

Marco Polo

1254 - 1324

Yuan Dynasty

1271 - 1368

Bubonic Plague

1346