Timelines
Chronology: BCE
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There are two different ways to go through the timelines. The first is from the "overviews" - short general timelines which list major events from Europe, the Middle East and Asia in three columns. Clicking on any event will take you to a specific chronology where you can learn more and see other events happening at the same time:
Words in red are linked to our glossary - so clicking on them will take you to much more information than can be included in brief chronology like this.
| Europe | Middle East | Asia | |||
| 8000 | Agriculture | ||||
| 7000 | |||||
| 6000 | |||||
| Creation | |||||
| 5000 | Indus settlements | ||||
| 4000 | |||||
| 3000 | Stonehenge | Athens | |||
| Imhotep | |||||
| Great Pyramid | |||||
| Silkworms | |||||
| Indo-Europeans | Harappa | ||||
| Ziggurat of Ur | |||||
| 2000 | |||||
| Hammurabi | |||||
| Abraham | |||||
| 1500 | |||||
| Mycenean Civilization | |||||
| Akhenaten | |||||
| Exodus | Rigveda | ||||
| Siege of Troy | |||||
| 1000 | Iberians | King David | |||
| Solomon | |||||
| Homer | |||||
| Olympic Games | J and E edited | ||||
| Aesop | Proverbs | Zoroaster | |||
| 500 | Roman Republic | Ezekiel | Daoism; Buddha | ||
| Marthon | Ezra | Mo-tzu | |||
| Socrates | Sun-tzu | ||||
| Alexander the Great | Septuagint | Han Dynasty | |||
| The Prophets | Great Wall of China | ||||
| 0 | Bhagavad Gita |
