Global History Midterm

Neolithic Revolution

10,000- 2,000 BC; people raise crops and animal stock, enables urbanization

Mesopotamian Cultivation-domestication

9000 BC

Mesopotamian large scale irrigation around Sumner

5,000 BC

City of Uruk in Sumner

3,800 BC

Akkadians conquered and consolidated a large number of Sumerian city states.

2,300 BC

Hammurabi rules the Babylonian Empire

1,792 BC

Egyptian central leadership starts

3,100 BC

The Palermo Stone

3rd millennium BC

The Austronesian Maritime expansion

3,000-15,000 BCE

Mesopotamian clay tablets with pictographs

8,000-3,000 BC

Pictographs combine and evolve to ideographs

3,000-2,000 BCE

Phonetic symbols (cuneiform)

2,500 BCE

Behistun Inscription

Created c. 520 BC (decoded 1835-43)

The Cuneiform Library of Ashurbanipal

c.647 BC

Enuma Elish

2nd Millennium BC

Neolithic revolution in China when Liangzhu flourished

c. 3300 - 2300 BC

Neolithic revolution in China when Erlitou flourished

c. 1900-1350 BC

Earliest Chinese writing system

c. 1200 BC

(mythical) Xia dynasty

2205 and 1766 BC

Shang Dynasty

1600-1046 BC

Zhou Dynasty

1046-256 BC

Qin dynasty

221-206 BC

Han Dynasty

202 BC-220 CE

Foundations of Global Mythology and Religion

c. 800-500 BCE

Mesopotamian hyper-local patron god of the city of Babylon

Marduk c.1800 - 100 BCE

When the Hebrews settled in Canaan

1025 BC

Hebrews begin to write down oral traditions

7th century BC

Hebrew Prophet Jeremiah

650-570 BCE (626 key date of warning)

Babylonian Exile

597 BCE

Hebrew second temple destroyed

70 CE

Tribal Religion in the Indus River Valley of the Vedic Age

1,500-500 BC

Neolithic Harrapan civilization

2,800-1,800 BC

Aryan Migration

1,500-500 BC

Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)

c. 500 BCE

Buddhism spreads through Mauryan Empire

513-185 BCE

Confucius

551-479 BCE

Hippocrates

470-400 BCE

Socrates

470-399 BCE

Plato

427-347 BCE

Aristotle

384-322 BCE

Classical Greek Culture

c.800-400 BC

helot revolt

460 BC

Conquests of Alexander

336-324 BC

The Monarchial Period of Rome

753-509 BCE

The Republic Period of Rome

509-27 BCE

The Empire period of Rome

27 BCE-476 CE

First Punic War

264–241 BCE

Second Punic War

218–201 BCE

Third Punic War

149–146 BCE

Spartacus

103-71 BC

Tiberius and Gais

c. 120

Liu Bang

202-195 BC

Emperor Han Wudi

r. 141-87 BCE