Historical timeline
Category: History
Updated: 4 months ago
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Created byNaitik Shaw
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Mesopotamia:
Sumerians create the cuneiform writingGreece:
Mycenaean civilization flourishes.Periods
Mesopotamia:
Rise of city-states like Uruk, Ur, and Lagash.Mesopotamia:
Sargon of Akkad creates the first known empire.Mesopotamia:
Hammurabi codifies laws.Mesopotamia:
Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Persian Empire conquered Babylon, effectively incorporating Mesopotamia into his vast empire. This marked the end of Mesopotamia as a politically independent region.Egypt:
Narmer unifies Upper and Lower Egypt.Egypt:
Old Kingdom (pyramid building).Egypt:
Middle Kingdom.Egypt:
New KingdomRoman Empire:
Founding of RomeRoman Empire:
Roman RepublicRoman Empire:
Punic WarsRoman Empire:
Octavian becomes EmperorGreece
Trojan War (legendary).Greece:
Archaic Period (rise of city-states).Greece:
Classical Period (peak of Greek civilization).Greece:
Alexander the Great conquers Persia.Roman Empire:
Constantine founds Constantinople.Roman Empire
Roman Empire officially divided.Roman Empire
Visigoths sack Rome (important context for Constantinople's rise).Roman Empire:
Fall of the Western Roman Empire.Roman Empire
Justinian's reign (Golden Age of Byzantine Empire, centered in Constantinople).Roman Empire:
Sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade.Roman Empire:
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.
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