classical & early post-classical dates

for ap world history unit 0

circa 11,500 bce

earliest known agricultural cultivation

circa 3000 bce

early river valley civilizations founded

6th century bce

hundred schools of thought begins

circa 500-300 bce

athenian greek golden age

500 bce-1000 ce

bantu migrations

circa 500 bce

siddhartha gautama founded buddhism

206 bce-220 ce

han dynasty rules china

circa 100 bce-1450s ce

merchants travel along the silk road

31 bce

fall of the roman republic

32 ce

beginnings of christianity

70 ce

destruction of the second temple of jerusalem/jewish diaspora

250-900 ce

classical mayan civilization controls the yucatan peninsula

circa 300 ce

trans-saharan trade begins

476 ce

fall of the western roman empire

622 ce

founding of islam

962 ce

beginning of the holy roman empire

1040 ce

movable type printing invented in china

1054 ce

great schism between the roman catholic & eastern orthodox churches

1185 ce

kamakura shogunate founded in japan

1095 ce

first crusade declared by pope urban ii