{"id":5116,"date":"2022-05-20T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:49:42","slug":"world-history-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/20\/world-history-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"World History Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline Cool-Content-Timeline\"><div class=\"cool-timeline-block-b63d5bd8-459a-4eec-ab11-b01151e8344a\"><style scoped=\"true\">.cool-timeline-block-b63d5bd8-459a-4eec-ab11-b01151e8344a .cool-vertical-timeline-body .story-time p{color: #333;}.cool-timeline-block-b63d5bd8-459a-4eec-ab11-b01151e8344a .cool-horizontal-timeline-body .story-time p{color: #333;}.cool-timeline-block-b63d5bd8-459a-4eec-ab11-b01151e8344a .cool-vertical-timeline-body::before{background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(230, 230, 230, 0) 0%, #D91B3E 10%, 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.timeline-block-icon span.timeline-block-render-icon svg{fill: white;}<\/style><div class=\"cool-vertical-timeline-body one-sided left\"><div class=\"cool-timeline-block-list\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Prehistory<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Prehistory-draa11.jpg\" alt=\"Prehistoric rock art, Foum Chena\/ Tinzouline- Zagora, valley of the River Draa, Morocco\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>8 \u2013 6 million years ago Bi-pedal hominids in Africa  <br>2.6 million years ago Homo habilis begin to use tools <br>43,000 BCE Homo sapiens expand out of Africa <br>50,000 \u2013 10,000 BCE Homo sapiens complete their migration to all continents <br>22,000 \u2013 14,000 BCE Last Glacial Maximum <br>c. 9,000 BCE Younger Dryas event <br>c. 9,000 BCE Jericho reaches its height <br>c. 7,000 BCE \u00c7atalh\u00fcy\u00fck reaches several thousand inhabitants <br>2,000 BCE Paleo-Eskimos appear in the Arctic <br>2,000 BCE Humans begin to make pottery<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Early Middle Eastern and  Northeast African Civilizations<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Mesopotamia-Indus.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p><strong>Ancient Mesopotamia<br><\/strong>c. 10,000 BCE Beginnings of the Agricultural Revolution<br>c. 3500 BCE Appearance of Sumerian city-states in lower Mesopotamia<br>c. 3200 BCE Early use of cuneiform<br>c. 2900 BCE Production of bronze<br>2334 \u2013 2100 BCE Akkadian Empire<br>c. 2000 BCE Gilgamesh first recorded in cuneiform<br>1792 \u2013 1595 BCE Babylonian Empire<br>1792 \u2013 1750 BCE Reign of Hammurabi<br>900 \u2013 612 BCE Assyrian Empire<br>626 \u2013 539 BCE New Babylonian Empire<br>605 \u2013 562 BCE Reign of Nebechadnezzar<br><br><strong>Ancient Israel<br><\/strong>c. 1300 \u2013 1200 BCE Israelites leave Egypt (following Moses)<br>c. 1050 \u2013 1010 BCE Israelites establish a kingdom<br>c. 1000 \u2013 970 BCE Reign of King David<br>c. 979 \u2013 930 BCE Reign of King Solomon<br>931 BCE Israel divides into two kingdoms<br>586 \u2013 539 BCE Babylonian captivity of Israelites<br><br><strong>Northeast Africa (Egypt and Nubia)<br><\/strong>c. 7000 BCE Beginnings of Agricultural Revolution in Northeast Africa<br>c. 6000 \u2013 3500 BCE Desiccation of the Sahara Desert pushed people towards Nile River Valley<br>c. 4000 BCE Towns and villages grew along the Nile River<br>c. 3100 BCE Unification of Egypt<br>3100 \u2013 2600 BCE Egyptian Archaic Period<br>2660 \u2013 2160 BCE Egyptian Old Kingdom<br>2400 \u2013 1450 BCE The Kingdom of Kerma<br>2040 \u2013 1640 BCE Egyptian Middle Kingdom<br>1640 \u2013 1570 BCE Egypt\u2019s Second Intermediate Period (Egypt under Hyksos Rule)<br>1530 \u2013 1070 BCE Egyptian New Kingdom<br>1350 \u2013 1325 BCE Amarna Period (under Pharaoh Akhenaten)<br>1040 \u2013 332 BCE Egyptian Late Period<br>750 \u2013 656 BCE The Kingdom of Kush ruled Egypt, creating the \u201cEthiopian Dynasty\u201d<br>750 \u2013 593 BCE Kingdom of Kush (with capital at Napata)<br>656 \u2013 639 BCE Assyrians occupied Egypt<br>593 BCE Egyptian army sacked Napata, the capital of Kush<br>593 BCE The Kingdom of Kerma moved its capital to Meroe<br>525 BCE Persian conquest of Egypt<br>323 BCE Alexander the Great conquered Egypt\/Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt<br>30 BCE Roman conquest of Egypt<br><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mesopotamia-Indus.jpg\">Image Source<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Ancient and Early Medieval India<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Indus_valley_Civilization.jpg\" alt=\"Indus valley Civilization\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>2600 \u2013 1700 BCE Harappan\/Indus Valley Civilization<br>1700 \u2013 600 BCE Vedic Age<br>1700 \u2013 1000 BCE Early Vedic Age<br>1000 \u2013 600 BCE Later Vedic Age<br>321 \u2013 184 BCE Mauryan Empire<br>c. 2nd century BCE to<br>3rd century CE Kushan Kingdom<br>c. 320 \u2013 550 CE Gupta Empire<br>600 \u2013 1300 CE Early Medieval India<br>1206 \u2013 1526 CE Delhi Sultanate<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pakistan\/comments\/8kpcr3\/indus_valley_civilization_oc_3496x1978\/\">Image Source<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>China and East Asia to the  Ming Dynasty<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/china.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p><strong>China<\/strong><br>8000 \u2013 2000 BCE Neolithic Cultures in China<br>5000 \u2013 3000 BCE Yangshao Culture<br>3000 \u2013 1900 BCE Longshan Culture<br>c. 1900 \u2013 1600 BCE Xia Dynasty<br>c. 1600 \u2013 1046 BCE Shang Dynasty<br>1045 \u2013 256 BCE Zhou Dynasty<br>1045 \u2013 771 BCE Western Zhou<br>770 \u2013 256 BCE Eastern Zhou<br>551 \u2013 479 BCE Confucius<br>475 \u2013 221 BCE Warring States Period<br>221 \u2013 210 BCE Qin Dynasty<br>221 \u2013 210 BCE First Emperor of Qin<br>202 BCE \u2013 220 CE Han Dynasty<br>141 \u2013 87 BCE Emperor Wu<br>220 \u2013 589 CE Period of Division<br>220 \u2013 280 CE Three Kingdoms Period<br>155 \u2013 220 CE Cao Cao<br>265 \u2013 317 CE Western Jin<br>317 \u2013 589 CE Northern and Southern Dynasties<br>581 \u2013 618 CE Sui Dynasty<br>618 \u2013 907 CE Tang Dynasty<br>960 \u2013 1279 CE Song Dynasty<br>1271 \u2013 1368 CE Yuan Dynasty<br>1215 \u2013 1294 CE Kublai Khan<br>1368 \u2013 1644 CE Ming Dynasty<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/101561334@N08\/10178145664\/\">Image source<\/a><br><br><strong>Korea<\/strong><br>c. 400 BCE \u2013 313 CE Early Historical Period<br>313 \u2013 668 CE Three Kingdoms<br>c. 37 BCE \u2013 668 CE Goguryeo Dynasty<br>668 \u2013 892 CE Silla Dynasty<br><br><strong>Japan<\/strong><br>11,000 \u2013 500 BCE J\u014dmon Period<br>500 BCE \u2013 250 CE Yayoi Period<br>250 \u2013 600 CE Mounded Tomb Period<br>600 \u2013 800 CE Asuka-Nara Period<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>The Greek World from the Bronze  Age to the Roman Conquest<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1200px-Ancient_Greek_Armour.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient Greek\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>c. 3300 \u2013 1150 BCE Bronze Age<br>c. 1100 \u2013 700 BCE Dark Ages<br>c. 700 \u2013 480 BCE Archaic Period<br>480 \u2013 323 BCE Classical Period<br>431 \u2013 404 BCE The Peloponnesian War<br>323 \u2013 146 BCE Hellenistic Period<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>The Roman World from 753 BCE  to 500 CE<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1200px-Ruin_of_the_Roman_theatre_Volterra_Italy.jpg\" alt=\"Ruin of the Roman theatre, Volterra, Italy\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>753 BCE Founding of Rome<br>c. 753 \u2013 510 BCE Regal Period<br>c. 510 BCE \u2013 44 BCE* Roman Republic<br>264 \u2013 146 BCE The Punic Wars<br>133 BCE \u2013 44 BCE The Late Republic<br>44 BCE \u2013 476 CE Roman Empire<br>44 BCE \u2013 68 CE Julio-Claudian Dynasty<br>69 CE Year of the Four Emperors<br>69 CE \u2013 96 CE Flavian Dynasty<br>96 \u2013 180 CE The Five Good Emperors<br>235 \u2013 284 CE The Third Century Crisis<br>395 CE Permanent division of the Empire into East and West<br><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ruin_of_the_Roman_theatre,_Volterra,_Italy.jpg\">Image Source<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Western Europe and Byzantium  circa 500 &#8211; 1000 CE<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Central_Europe_5th_Century.jpg\" alt=\"Central Europe 5th Century\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>410 CE Roman army abandons Britain<br>476 CE The general Odavacar deposes last Western Roman Emperor<br>496 CE The Frankish king Clovis converts to Christianity<br>500s CE Anglo-Saxons gradually take over Britain<br>533 CE Byzantine Empire conquers the Vandal kingdom in North Africa<br>535 \u2013 554 CE Byzantine Empire conquers the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy<br>560s CE Lombard invasions of Italy begin<br>580s CE The Franks cease keeping tax registers<br>597 CE Christian missionaries dispatched from Rome arrive in Britain<br>610 \u2013 641 CE Heraclius is Byzantine emperor<br>636 CE Arab Muslims defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Yarmouk<br>670s CE Byzantine Empire begins to lose control of the Balkans to Avars, Bulgars,<br>and Slavs<br>674 \u2013 678 CE Arabs lay siege to Constantinople but are unsuccessful<br>711 CE Muslims from North Africa conquer Spain, end of the Visigothic kingdom<br>717 \u2013 718 CE Arabs lay siege to Constantinople but are unsuccessful<br>717 CE Leo III becomes Byzantine emperor. Under his rule, the Iconoclast<br>Controversy begins.<br>732 CE King Charles Martel of the Franks defeats a Muslim invasion of the<br>kingdom at the Battle of Tours<br>751 CE The Byzantine city of Ravenna falls to the Lombards; Pepin the Short of the<br>Franks deposes the last Merovingian king and becomes king of the Franks;<br>King Pepin will later conquer Central Italy and donate it to the pope<br>750s CE Duke of Naples ceases to acknowledge the authority of the Byzantine emperor<br>770s CE Effective control of the city of Rome passes from Byzantium to the papacy<br>c. 780 \u2013 840 CE The Carolingian Renaissance<br>782 CE Charlemagne crushes a Saxon rebellion<br>787 CE Second Council of Nicaea authorizes the use of icons in worship<br>793 CE Viking raids begin<br>800 CE Charlemagne crowned Roman emperor by Pope Leo III<br>830 CE Abbasid caliph Al-Mamun founds the House of Wisdom in Baghdad<br>843 CE In the Treaty of Verdun, Charlemagne\u2019s three sons, Lothar, Louis, and<br>Charles the Bald, divide his empire among themselves<br>843 CE Final resolution of the Iconoclast Controversy under Empress Theodora<br>846 CE Muslim raiders from Aghlabid North Africa sack the city of Rome<br>c. 843 \u2013 900 CE Macedonian Renaissance<br>Mid-800s: CE Cyril and Methodius preach Christianity to the Slavic peoples<br>864 CE Conversion of the Bulgars to Christianity<br>867 CE Basil I murders the reigning Byzantine emperor and seizes control of the Empire<br>871 \u2013 899 CE Alfred the Great is king of England. He defeats Norse raiders and creates<br>a consolidated kingdom.<br>899 CE Defeated by the Pechenegs, the Magyars begin moving into Central Europe<br>955 CE Otto the Great, king of East Francia, defeats the Magyars in battle<br>976 \u2013 1025 CE Basil II is Byzantine Emperor<br>988 CE Vladimir, Grand Prince of Kiev, converts to Christianity<br><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Central_Europe_5th_Century.jpg\">image<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Islam to the Mamluks<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Age_of_Caliphs.png\" alt=\"Age of Caliphs\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>632 \u2013 661 CE Rashidun Caliphs<br>661 \u2013 750 CE Umayyad Caliphate<br>750 \u2013 1258 CE Abbasid Caliphate<br>909 \u2013 1171 CE Fatimid Caliphate<br>1096 \u2013 1487 CE Crusades<br>1171 \u2013 1250 CE Ayubid Sultanate<br>1250 \u2013 1517 CE Mamluk Sultanate<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>African History to 1500<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Solomon-and-Queen-of-Sheba-Speculum-Humanae-Salvationis.jpg\" alt=\"Solomon and Queen of Sheba Speculum Humanae Salvationis\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>200,000 \u2013 100,000 BP<br>(Before Present)<br>First behaviorally modern human emerged in Africa<br>c. 7000 BCE Beginnings of the Agricultural Revolution in Africa<br>c. 3000 BCE \u2013 1500 CE The Bantu expansions<br>900s BCE Rule of Queen Makeda (Ethiopia)<br>c. 800 BCE \u2013 300 CE Kingdom of Da\u2019amat (Ethiopia)<br>c. 250 BCE Founding of Djenne-Jeno, one of Africa\u2019s first cities (Western Sudan)<br>c. 100 \u2013 950 CE The Empire of Aksum<br>c. 300 CE Ghana emerged as a state (Western Sudan)<br>c. 325 \u2013 350 CE The rule of King Ezana (Aksum\/Ethiopia)<br>c. 800 CE Ghana became an empire (Western Sudan)<br>1000 \u2013 1500 CE Height of Swahili society (East Africa)<br>1200 \u2013 1450 CE Height of Great Zimbabwe (southern Africa\/ Zimbabwe Plateau)<br>1235 CE Sundiata Keita founded the Mali Empire (Western Sudan)<br>1324 \u2013 1325 CE Mansa Musa performed the hajj (Western Sudan)<br>Early 1400s CE Portuguese began to explore the Atlantic coast of West Africa; beginnings<br>of the Age of Exploration<br>1460s CE Sunni Ali built the Songhai Empire (Western Sudan)<br>1493 \u2013 1528 CE Askia the Great ruled during the Golden Age of the Songhai Empire<br>(Western Sudan)<br>Early 1500s CE The Portuguese built a Trading Post Empire in the Indian Ocean (East Africa)<br>1591 CE Moroccans invaded the Songhai Empire (Western Sudan)<br>1699 CE The Omanis (allied with some Swahili rulers) seized Swahili city-states<br>from the Portuguese (East Africa)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>The Americas<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/PreColumbian_American_cultures.png\" alt=\"PreColumbian American cultures\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>18,000 \u2013 15,000 BCE First humans migrate to the Americas<br>c. 13,000 BCE Big game hunters inhabit the Great Plains<br>c. 10,000 BCE Mesoamericans begin to cultivate squash<br>10,000 \u2013 3,500 BCE Paleo-Indian Period<br>5600 \u2013 3000 BCE Early Plains Archaic Period<br>2000 BCE \u2013 250 CE Preclassic or Formative period in Mesoamerica<br>c. 1900 BCE Mesoamericans begin to make pottery<br>1800 \u2013 800 BCE Late Initial Period in Peru<br>1500 \u2013 400 BCE Middle Formative Period in Mesoamerica. Peak of Olmec statue carving<br>c. 1000 BCE Maize becomes widespread in North America<br>400 BCE \u2013 100 CE Late Formative Period in Mesoamerica<br>200 BCE The Moche begin their conquest of Peru\u2019s north coast<br>200 BCE \u2013 400 CE The Hopewell culture flourishes in North America<br>100 BCE \u2013 600 CE The Nazca culture flourishes in Peru<br>400s CE Tiwankau founded<br>550 CE Teotihuac\u00e1n reaches 125,000 residents<br>700 CE The Huari Empire reaches its height<br>700 \u2013 1400 CE Cahokia<br>750 CE Tikal reaches 80,000 residents<br>800 CE The Toltec city of Tula reaches a population of 35,000<br>1000 CE The Chimu establish the capital city of Chan Chan<br>1050 CE The population of Chaco Canyon\u2019s five great pueblos reaches 5,000<br>inhabitants<br>1325 CE Tenochtitl\u00e1n founded<br>1471 CE Death of Inca Pachacuti<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-right\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Central Asia<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/East-Asian-Empires.png\" alt=\"East Asian Empires\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>1206 \u2013 1368 CE Mongol Empire<br>1240s \u2013 1502 CE Khanate of the Golden Horde<br>1225 \u2013 1370 CE The Khanate of Chagatai<br>1265 \u2013 1335 CE The Khanate of the Ilkhans<br>1370 \u2013 1507 CE Timurid Dynasty<br><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:East_Asian_Empires.svg\">image<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cp-timeline-content-timeline-child swiper-slide\"><div class=\"timeline-content icon-false \"><div class=\" timeline-block-timeline ctl-row  position-left\"><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-time\"><div class=\"story-time\"><p>Western Europe and Byzantium<br>circa 1000 &#8211; 1500 CE<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"timeline-block-icon\"><\/div><div class=\"ctl-6 timeline-block-detail\"><div class=\"story-details\"><div class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themindpalace.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Europe_map_1092.png\" alt=\"Europe map 1092\"\/><\/div><div class=\"story-content\"><h3>CHRONOLOGY<\/h3><p>962 CE Otto I crowned Holy Roman Emperor<br>987 CE Hugh Capet elected king of France<br>c. 1000 \u2013 1100 CE Emergence of Western European feudalism<br>1031 CE Fall of the Cordoba Caliphate<br>1049 CE Pope Leo IX begins papal efforts at Church reform<br>1054 CE Schism between the pope and the patriarch of Constantinople<br>1066 CE Norman Conquest of England<br>1071 CE Battle of Manzikert annihilates Byzantine field army<br>1077 CE Henry IV repents to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa<br>1085 CE Fall of Muslim Toledo to the Christian kingdom of Leon-Castile<br>1088 \u2013 1231 CE Foundation of Universities of Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge<br>1091 CE Norman conquest of Muslim Sicily complete<br>1095 CE Council of Clermont, calling of the First Crusade<br>1099 CE Fall of Jerusalem to Christian Crusaders, establishment of Crusader States<br>1100 \u2013 1135 CE King Henry I rules England<br>1118 \u2013 1143 CE Emperor John II rules the Byzantine Empire<br>1122 CE Concordat of Worms<br>1125 \u2013 1152 CE Raymond is archbishop of Toledo, begins sponsoring the translation of<br>Muslim and Greek philosophy from Arabic into Latin<br>1143 \u2013 1180 CE Emperor Manuel Komnenos rules the Byzantine Empire<br>1154 \u2013 1189 CE King Henry II rules England<br>1176 CE Frederick Barbarossa defeated by Lombard League at the Battle of Legnano;<br>Manuel Komnenos defeated by Saljuq Turks at the Battle of Myriokephalon<br>1187 CE Kingdom of Jerusalem defeated by Saladin at the Battle of Hattin, fall of<br>Jerusalem, Pope Gregory VIII issues Audita tremendi, calling the Third<br>Crusade<br>1189 \u2013 1192 CE The Third Crusade, a rump (remnant of a larger government) Christian<br>Kingdom of Jerusalem is re-established, but Jerusalem remains in<br>Muslim hands<br>1203 \u2013 1226 CE France\u2019s Capetian kings extend the control of lands directly ruled by the<br>crown<br>1204 CE Crusaders sack Constantinople, break-up of the Byzantine Empire<br>1212 CE Almohad Caliphate defeated by Spanish Christian kingdoms at the Battle<br>of Las Navas de Tolosa<br>1215 CE Magna Carta<br>1215 \u2013 1250 CE Frederick II is Holy Roman Emperor<br>1224 \u2013 1274 CE Life of St. Thomas Aquinas<br>1229 CE A treaty between Frederick II and Egyptian sultan al-Kamil returns<br>Jerusalem to Christian rule<br>1240 CE Mongol Conquest of Kievan Rus<br>1241 CE Mongol invasion of Hungary<br>1244 CE Jerusalem falls to Ayyubid Egypt<br>1248 \u2013 1254 CE The Seventh Crusade, France\u2019s King Louis IX defeated by Egypt,<br>Egyptian Mamluk coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<br>1250 \u2013 1273 CE There is no Holy Roman Emperor<br>1261 CE Restoration of the Byzantine Empire<br>1291 CE Last Crusader territory in the Levant falls to Mamluk Egypt<br>c. 1300 CE Genoese sailors begin exploring the Atlantic Ocean<br>early 1300s CE Genoese sailors are visiting the Canary Islands<br>1309 CE Beginning of Avignon papacy<br>1314 \u2013 1326 CE Civil war in the Holy Roman Empire<br>1315 \u2013 1322 CE The Great Famine<br>1324 CE Mansa Musa\u2019s hajj<br>1331 CE Nearly all Byzantine territory in Asia Minor has fallen to the Ottoman Turks<br>1337 CE The Hundred Years\u2019 War begins<br>c. 1350 CE Beginning of Italian Renaissance and Humanism<br>1347 \u2013 1351 CE The Black Death, nearly a third of Europe\u2019s population dies<br>1356 CE The Holy Roman Empire becomes an elected monarchy<br>1358 CE French peasant revolt<br>1378 CE Beginning of Great Schism<br>1385 CE Lithuania united with Poland, Lithuanian monarch converts to Christianity<br>1396 CE Ottoman Turks conquer Bulgaria<br>1397 CE Union of Kalmar unites Sweden, Denmark, and Norway under a single<br>crown<br>c. 1400 \u2013 1500 CE Renaissance Humanism spreads throughout Europe<br>1404 CE Castilian effort to conquer the Canaries begins<br>1415 \u2013 1417 CE Council of Constance resolves the Great Schism<br>1440 CE Lorenzo Valla shows the Donation of Constantine to be a forgery<br>mid 1400s CE Iberians are settling the Azores, a plantation economy worked by African<br>slaves begins to flourish in the Canaries and Azores<br>1453 CE Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, final fall of the Byzantine Empire;<br>End of Hundred Years\u2019 War and English attempts to conquer France<br>1454 CE Treaty of Lodi brings nearly a half century of peace to Italy<br>1455 \u2013 1485 CE Wars of the Roses in England<br>1459 CE Final Ottoman conquest of Serbia<br>1479 CE Marriage of Queen Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon creates a<br>united Spanish monarchy<br>1492 CE King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella complete the Reconquista with the<br>conquest of Granada, Christopher Columbus, sailing for the Spanish<br>crown, makes landfall in the Western Hemisphere<br>1494 CE France invades Italy<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Content Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ung.edu\/university-press\/books\/world-history-cultures-states-societies-to-1500.php\">University of North Georgia Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter begins at the origins of bipedalism some eight million years ago and brings us up to eight thousand years ago with the the Neolithic Era or \u201cnew stone age.\u201d Bipedal hominids would develop during the Pliocene era and our closest ancestors during the more recent Pleistocene. Finally, modern Homo sapiens would appear during the Holocene. During the Holocene humans would perfect tool usage during the Paleolithic Era, and would usher in agriculture during the Neolithic. 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