© 2003 David Koeller. All rights reserved.
Prehistory to 3200 BC
- 1,000,000 to 35,000: Hominids
- 35,000 to 10,000: Paleolithic Period
- 8,000 to 6,500: Neolithic
- 3,500: Early Urban Societies
Mesopotamian Roots: 3200-465
- 3500-1100 BC: Mesopotamia
- 1100-465 BC: The Fall and Rise and Empires
Mediterranean Period from 2900 BC to AD 400
- 3500-550 BC: Mesopotamia and Egypt
- 1950 BC-AD 70: Ancient Israel
- 559-465 BC: Persia
- 2900-430 BC: Greece
- 753 BC-AD 1453: Rome
Medieval from AD 400-1500
- 500- 1000: Dark Ages
- 1000- 1350: High Middle Ages
- 1350-1500: Late Middle Ages
Early Modern from 1400 to 1789
- 1400-1550: Renaissance
- 1517-1598: Reformation
- 1600-1700: Baroque
- 1700-1789: Enlightenment
Late Modern from 1789 to 1989
- 1789-1848: Age of Revolutions
- 1848-1914: Age of Liberalism
- 1914-1945: Age of World Wars
- 1945-1989: The Cold War
Text copyright 1998 by David W. Koeller. All rights reserved.