Ancient World
3200 BCE–500 BCE · 83 events
Religion
- Stonehenge Construction Begins (3200 BCE)
- Newgrange Passage Tomb Built (3200 BCE)
- Pyramid Texts Inscribed (2350 BCE)
- Ziggurats Built in Ur (2100 BCE)
- Abraham Leaves Ur (2000 BCE)
- Stonehenge Completed (2000 BCE)
- Vedic Period Begins in India (1500 BCE)
- Akhenaten's Religious Revolution (1351 BCE)
- The Exodus (1300 BCE)
- Zoroastrianism Spreads (600 BCE)
- Mahavira Founds Jainism (600 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity (597 BCE)
- Birth of Buddha (563 BCE)
- Buddha's First Sermon at Sarnath (528 BCE)
- Second Temple Completed (515 BCE)
- Compilation of Vedas (500 BCE)
Politics
- Unification of Egypt (3100 BCE)
- Early Dynastic Period in Sumer (2900 BCE)
- Old Kingdom Egypt Begins (2700 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire Founded (2334 BCE)
- Babylonian Empire Rises (1800 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1700 BCE)
- Shang Dynasty Founded (1600 BCE)
- New Kingdom Egypt Begins (1550 BCE)
- Ramesses II Rules Egypt (1279 BCE)
- Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty (1259 BCE)
- Zhou Dynasty Founded (1046 BCE)
- Carthage Founded (900 BCE)
- Kingdom of Kush at Peak (814 BCE)
- Founding of Rome (753 BCE)
- Nubian Pharaohs Rule Egypt (700 BCE)
- Babylonian Empire Revived (626 BCE)
- Draco's Law Code Athens (621 BCE)
- Zapotec Civilization Rises (600 BCE)
- Persian Empire Founded (559 BCE)
- Athenian Democracy Founded (507 BCE)
Culture
- Hieroglyphic Writing Develops (3100 BCE)
- Sumerian Writing (3000 BCE)
- Minoan Civilization Begins (3000 BCE)
- Great Sphinx Built (2600 BCE)
- Caral Flourishes in Peru (2600 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Indus Valley at its Peak (2500 BCE)
- Board Game of Ur (2400 BCE)
- Indus Valley Declines (1900 BCE)
- The First Schools (1900 BCE)
- Olmec Civilization Emerges (1500 BCE)
- Olmec Build La Venta (1500 BCE)
- Oracle Bone Script in Use (1250 BCE)
- Olmec Rise at San Lorenzo (1200 BCE)
- Phoenician Alphabet Created (1000 BCE)
- Chavin Culture in Peru (900 BCE)
- Homer Composes the Iliad (800 BCE)
- Homer Writes the Odyssey (800 BCE)
- Aesop Tells His Fables (700 BCE)
- Nineveh Built as Assyrian Capital (689 BCE)
- Confucius Born (551 BCE)
- Nok Culture Flourishes (500 BCE)
Economy
- Mesopotamian Trade Networks (3000 BCE)
- Trans-Saharan Trade Opens (1000 BCE)
- Lydians Mint First Coins (600 BCE)
- Persian Royal Road (500 BCE)
Science
- Imhotep Designs the Step Pyramid (2600 BCE)
- Indus Cities Build Covered Drains (2600 BCE)
- Nebra Sky Disk Made (1600 BCE)
- Ebers Papyrus Compiled (1550 BCE)
- Jerwan Aqueduct Built (690 BCE)
- Thales Predicts Solar Eclipse (585 BCE)
Sports
- Nubian Wrestling Depicted (2000 BCE)
- Earliest Rubber Balls Made (1600 BCE)
- Sling and Knucklebones (1200 BCE)
- First Olympic Games (776 BCE)
- Polo Played in Ancient Persia (500 BCE)
Disaster
- Minoan Eruption of Thera (1628 BCE)
Exploration
- Hatshepsut Expedition to Punt (1493 BCE)
- Egyptians Map the Red Sea Route (1470 BCE)
- Phoenicians Circumnavigate Africa (600 BCE)
- Scylax Charts the Indus (510 BCE)
War
- Trojan War (Traditional Date) (1250 BCE)
- Bronze Age Collapse (1200 BCE)
- Assyria Conquers Israel (722 BCE)
- Fall of Nineveh (612 BCE)
- Persia Conquers Egypt (525 BCE)
Further reading
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
- Against the Grain by James C. Scott
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- Classical Era (500 BCE – 500 AD)
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- Early Modern (1450 AD – 1800 AD)
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