Timeline of world history
- 5,000,000 - 1,000,000 BC: Australopithecus
- 2,200,000 - 1,600,000 BC: Homo habilis
- 500,000 - 80,000 BC: Homo sapiens
- c. 27,000 - 23,000 Dolni Vestonice
- 3,300 BC: First Sumerian cities
- 3100 BC: Beginnings of Egyptian civilization
- 2500 BC: Harappan Civilization
- 1800 BC: Shang dynasty in China
- 1200 BC: Olmec culture in Mesoamerica
- AD 400: Jenne-Jeno in Nigeria
- 3200-1500 BC: River Valley Empires
- 2000 - 200 BC: Barbarian Invasions and Imperial Responses
- 600 - 400 BC: The "Axial Age"
- 130 BC- AD 200: Formation of the Eurasian Ecumene
- 200-900: Barbarian Invasions and internal turmoil
- 630-725: The Age of Islamic Expansion
- 1200-1350: The Age of Mongol Dominance
- 1350-1700: The Second Age of Islamic Expansion
- 1400-1650: Voyages of Discovery.
- 1500-1800: The Age of Chinese Dominance
- 1500-1900: Unification of the Hemispheres
- 1500-1700: The First Period of European Imperialism
- 1850-1920: The New Imperialism
- The Development and Spread of Western Civilization
- The Development of the Nation-State
- The Development of Scientific Culture
- The Industrial Revolution
- The New Imperialism
- The World Wars
- The Cold War
- Decolonization
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