To 10,000 B.C.E.

8000

6000
4000

History & World Events

PALEOLITHICCulture
(ca.7million10,000B.C.E.)
Australopithecususes
stonetoolsandweapons

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.)

Literature & Philosophy

Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts

VenusofWillendorf
(ca.25,00020,000B.C.E.)
LascauxCaves
(ca.15,00010,000B.C.E.)

BhagavadGita
(ca.5th2ndcenturiesB.C.E.)

Stonehenge,SalisburyPlain
(ca.30001800B.C.E.)

TheStandardofUr
(ca.2700B.C.E.)

ZigguratatUr
(ca.21502050B.C.E.)

2000

History & World Events

EGYPTIANKingdoms
(ca.3100500B.C.E.)

BRONZEAGE
(ca.30001200B.C.E.)

INDUSVALLEYCivilization
(ca.27001500B.C.E.)

SARGONSEmpire
(ca.23602000B.C.E.)

XIADynasty
(ca.22001766B.C.E.)

BABYLONIANEmpire
(ca.20001600B.C.E.)

MINOANCivilization
(ca.20001400B.C.E.)

EarlyHEBREWCivilization
(ca.2000 B.C.E.)

HITTITEEmpire
(ca.18001200B.C.E.)

SHANGDynasty
(ca.17661027B.C.E.)

MYCENAEANCivilization
(ca.16001200B.C.E.)

VEDICEra
(ca.1500322B.C.E.)

Literature & Philosophy

Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts

TheBabylonianCreation
(ca.2000B.C.E.)

HammurabisCode
(ca.1750B.C.E.)

TheEpicofGilgamesh
(ca.1600B.C.E.)

CitadelatMycenae
(ca.15001300B.C.E.)

1000
750

500

History & World Events

OLMECS
(ca.1300400B.C.E.)

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.)

Literature & Philosophy

Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts

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.)

History & World Events

GREEKGOLDENAge
(ca.480430B.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.)

Literature & Philosophy

Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts

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.)

History & World Events

ROMANEmpire/PAXROMANA
(30B.C.E.180C.E.)
0

100 C.E.

PaperinventedinChina
(105C.E.)

Literature & Philosophy

Virgil,Aeneid
(ca.20B.C.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.)

Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts

PontduGard
(ca.2010B.C.E.)

Colosseum,Rome
(7082C.E.)

TrajansVictoryColumn
(113C.E.)

Pantheon
(ca.118125C.E.)

EquestrianstatueofMarcusAurelius
(ca.173C.E.)