History of the world

This is chronology of events in the history of mankind. So when someone tells you the Greeks and Romans form the cradle of human civilization, you can tell them Egyptians and Indians were building cities thousands of years before the so-called Western civilization even set a stone.

4-5 MILLION B.C .- Humans (Hominids - in primitive ape-like stages) first  appear in AFRICA (EAST & SOUTH)

2.5 - 2 MILLION B.C. - Humans (Homo Habilis - humans with brain and dextrous fingers and Homo Erectus) appear in Africa

900,000 B.C. - Humans (Homo Sapiens) move towards WEST ASIA (MESOPOTAMIA - PERSIA -INDUS)

850,000 B.C. - Humans move towards LOWER EUROPE (ANATOLIA/ BALKANS).
(ANATOLIA is mordern day Turkey)

450,000 B.C.  - Humans move towards CHINA (NORTH)

200,000 B.C. - Humans seen in MIDDLE EUROPE

120,000 B.C. - Humans start occupying JAVA

100,000 B.C. - EARLIEST KNOWN FORM OF HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS (AFRICA)

50,000 B.C. - Humans move towards AUSTRALIA

35,000 B.C. - Humans move towards UPPER EUROPE

30,000 B.C. - Humans set up in NORTH AMERICA

10,000 B.C - Humans migrate towards  SOUTH AMERICA (ICE AGE ENDS)

10000-4000 B.C. - Humans start AGRICULTURAL/ HUNTING/ METAL WORKS

6000 B.C. COPPER FOUND IN WEST ASIA

5000 B.C. COPPER FOUND IN BALKANS

4000-2000 B.C. BRONZE/ COPPER IS WIDELY USED IN THE OLD WORLD (ASIA)

2000-1000 B.C. IRON IS FOUND IN WEST ASIA/ INDIA/ CHINA

3500 B.C.-1100 B.C. (EGYPTIAN EMPIRE AT ITS PEAK) - WORLD's FIRST CITIES COMES UP ON THE BANKS OF RIVERS NILE, TIGRIS/ EUPHRATES- URBAN (CITIES UR- URUK -BABYLON)

3200 B.C. WORLD's FIRST URBAN CIVILIZATION COMES UP AROUND NILES IN EYGPT - URBAN (CITY- MEMPHIS, THEBES)

3000 B.C. - 1500 B.C. - WORLD's NEXT BIGEST URBAN CIVILIZATION COMES AROUND  - INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION- URBAN (CITIES - HARAPPA MOHENJO-DARO)

1800 B.C. - 1100 B.C. NORTHERN CHINA BEGINS URBANIZATION (CITIES - ZHENGZHOU SHANG KINGDOM)

2000-1100 B.C. GREEKS START THEIR URBANIZATION
(I) KING MINOS OF THE ISLAND OF CRETE (AEGEAN EMPIRE) (2000-1700 B.C.)
(II) MYCENAEN EMPIRE (PALACE OF KNOSSOS BECOMES THEIR MOST FAMOUS SYMBOL)

1650-1200 B.C. HITTITE EMPIRE (Turkey)

2000 B.C.- 1000 B.C. -  LEVANT EMPIRE (Present day Israel) INCLUDES CITIES LIKE JERUSALEM, AMMAN, DAMASCUS, GAZA). IT EXPANDS TO INCLUDE MESOPOTAMIA (KIngdom of Mittanni and Kingdom of Hittite) AND  EGYPT

- KINGDOM OF MITANNI (MESOPOTAMIA)
- KINGDOM OF HITTIE (ANATOLIA) - (BOGASKOY CITY)

1000-300 B.C. - POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CENTER OF INDIA SHIFTS FROM INDUS VALLEY TO THE MORE FERTILE GANGES PLAINS. BUDDHISM, JAINISM AND THE MYSTICAL VEDISM DEVELOPED IN THIS ERA. THE UPANISHADS (LAST PART OF VEDAS) URGED ESCAPED FROM PHYSICAL WORLD. RAMAYAN (AROUND 300 B.C.) AND MAHABHARATA STARTED AROUND 400 B.C.

1000-600 B.C. ASSYRIAN EMPIRE (MESAPOTAMIA & LEVANT) (CITY NIMRUD).
(MESOPOTAMIA is mordern day Middle-East)

900-300 B.C. GREEK EMPIRE (GREECE, AEGEAN, WEST ANATOLIA, ITALY)
(CITY-ATHENS)

300-100 B.C. HELLENISTIC WORLD (GREECE, WEST ANATOLIA, MESA)
(KING ALEXANDER)

563 B.C. BIRTH OF BUDHA - BUDHISM BEGINS TO SPREAD

600 B.C.-640 A.D. PERSIAN EMPIRE - EGYPT, MESA, ASSYRIA, INDUS
(PERSIAN EMPIRE ALSO CALLED ACHAEMENID EMPIRE)

1000 B.C.-50 A.D CELTIC EMPIRE IN EUROPE (BEYOND CACAUCUS MT.'S)

300 B.C. - 500 A.D. ROMAN EMPIRE (ITALY, SPAIN, FRANCE, GREECE, N.AFTRICA, ANATOLIA, LEVANT, EGYPT)

600-200 B.C. MAURYAN EMPIRE (KING ASOKA) CITY-PATALIPUTRA

300 - 400 A.D.   -GUPTA DYNASTY UNITES INDIA AROUND 320 AD. ART, ARCHITECTURE AND  LITERATURE ARE INDIA'S FINEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS EAR.   MATHEMATICAL INNVOATIONS IN INDIA INCLUDE THE ZERO AND USE OF DECIMAL NUMBERS

600-1000 A.D. ISLAM POWER SPREADS (622 AD MOHAMED/ MUSLIM ERA STARTS)

700-1100 A.D. VIKINGS RULE (N.W. EUROPE- SCANDINAVIAN, BRITISH, FRANCE, GERMANY, RUSSIA)

100-1600 A.D. OTTOMON TURKS RULE ANATOLIA, LEGANT, EGYPT, S-E EUROPE

1500-1600 A.D. SAFAVID RULE IN PERSIA

1200-1600 A.D. MOGHULS RULE IN INDIA

400 B.C.-1600 A.D. HAN-TANG-SONG-MING DYNASTIES IN THE ORIENT

1600-1900 A.D. MANCHU-CHING DYNASTY

1500-2000 A.D. EUROPEAN DOMINATION

2000 AD onwards - INDIAN DOMINATION??????