8000
6000
4000
ICEAGE
(ca.3million10,000B.C.E.)
NEANDERTHALCulture
(ca.30,00010,000B.C.E.)
EvolutionofHomosapiens
(ca.35,000B.C.E.)
MigrationstotheAmericas
(ca.12,000B.C.E.)
NEOLITHICCulture:
Farmingcommunities
(ca.80004000B.C.E.)
Potteryinvented
(ca.5000B.C.E.)
CARALandSECHINBAJO
(ca.35002600B.C.E.)
MESOPOTAMIANCultures
(ca.3500330B.C.E.)
SUMERIANCityStates
(ca.32002350B.C.E.)
BhagavadGita
(ca.5th2ndcenturiesB.C.E.)
Stonehenge,SalisburyPlain
(ca.30001800B.C.E.)
TheStandardofUr
(ca.2700B.C.E.)
ZigguratatUr
(ca.21502050B.C.E.)
BRONZEAGE
(ca.30001200B.C.E.)
INDUSVALLEYCivilization
(ca.27001500B.C.E.)
SARGONSEmpire
(ca.23602000B.C.E.)
XIADynasty
(ca.22001766B.C.E.)
2000
BABYLONIANEmpire
(ca.20001600B.C.E.)
TheBabylonianCreation
(ca.2000B.C.E.)
MINOANCivilization
(ca.20001400B.C.E.)
HammurabisCode
(ca.1750B.C.E.)
EarlyHEBREWCivilization
(ca.2000 B.C.E.)
TheEpicofGilgamesh
(ca.1600B.C.E.)
HITTITEEmpire
(ca.18001200B.C.E.)
SHANGDynasty
(ca.17661027B.C.E.)
MYCENAEANCivilization
(ca.16001200B.C.E.)
VEDICEra
(ca.1500322B.C.E.)
CitadelatMycenae
(ca.15001300B.C.E.)
Sphinx of Giza
1000
750
500
HEROICAge
(ca.1200750B.C.E.)
WESTERNZHOUDynasty
(1027771B.C.E.)
FirstOlympicGames
(776B.C.E.)
EASTERNZHOUDynasty
(ca.771256B.C.E.)
ASSYRIANEmpire
(ca.750600B.C.E.)
GREEKCityStateandPERSIAN
Wars
(ca.750480B.C.E.)
CHALDEAN(NeoBabylonian)
Empire
(ca.600540B.C.E.)
PERSIANEmpire
(ca.550330B.C.E.)
ROMANRepublic
(509133B.C.E.)
PERSIANWARSagainstGreece
(ca.499480B.C.E.)
Iliad
(ca.850B.C.E.)
Sapphospoems
(ca.590B.C.E.)
Daodejing
(ca.550B.C.E.)
CalfBearer
(ca.575550B.C.E.)
Herodotus,HistoryofthePersian KritosBoy
(ca.480B.C.E.)
Wars
(440B.C.E.)
PELOPONNESIANWars
(431404B.C.E.)
WARRINGSTATESPeriod
(ca.403221B.C.E.)
HELLENISTICAge
(32330B.C.E.)
PUNICWars
(264141B.C.E.)
250
QINDynasty
(221206B.C.E.)
HANDynasty
(206B.C.E.220C.E.)
CollapseoftheRomanRepublic
(13330B.C.E.)
JuliusCaesarassassinated
(44B.C.E.)
Myron,Discobolus(DiscusThrower)
Sophocles,Antigone
(ca.450B.C.E.)
(ca.440B.C.E.)
Parthenon
(448432B.C.E.)
Thucydides,PeloponnesianWars
TempleofAthenaNike,Acropolis
(ca.410B.C.E.)
(ca.427424B.C.E.)
Pindar,Odes
ApolloBelvedere
(ca.420B.C.E.)
(late4thcenturyB.C.E.)
Plato,Crito
TheateratEpidaurus,Greece
(ca.390B.C.E.)
(ca.350B.C.E.)
Plato,AllegoryoftheCave
(ca.375B.C.E.)
Aristotle,NicomacheanEthics
(ca.340B.C.E.)
Aristotle,Poetics
(ca.340B.C.E.)
SimaQian,RecordsoftheGrand Agesander,Polydorus,andAthenodorusof
Rhodes,LaoconandHisSons
Historian
(2ndto1stcenturiesB.C.E.)
(ca.100B.C.E.)
Vitruvius,PrinciplesofSymmetry TomboffirstemperorofQindynasty
(ca.4630B.C.E.)
(221206B.C.E.)
Cicero,OnDuty
GreatWall
(ca.44B.C.E.)
(begun214B.C.E.)
Horace,Poems
PythocritosofRhodes,NikeofSamothrace
(ca.3015B.C.E.)
(ca.190B.C.E.)
100 C.E.
PaperinventedinChina
(105C.E.)
Seneca,OnTranquilityofthe
Mind
(ca.40C.E.)
Josephus,Descriptionofthe
RomanArmy
(ca.70C.E.)
Tacitus,DialogueofOratory
(ca.100105C.E.)
Juvenal,AgainsttheCityof
Rome
(ca.110127C.E.)
Juvenal,AgainstWomen
(ca.110127C.E.)
Colosseum,Rome
(7082C.E.)
TrajansVictoryColumn
(113C.E.)
Pantheon
(ca.118125C.E.)
EquestrianstatueofMarcusAurelius
(ca.173C.E.)