| Sumerian Civilization Begins 3500-2500 B.C. |
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| The Ancient Native Americans c. 3500-150 B.C. |
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| Sumerian Cuneiform c. 2800 B.C. |
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| The Sumerian "Royal Standard of Ur" c. 2500 B.C. |
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| Ebla Civilization c. 2500 B.C. |
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| India & Hinduism c. 2500-1500 B.C. |
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| Akkadian Civilization c. 2350-2100 B.C. |
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| Canaanites settle Canaan c. 2000 B.C. |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh c. 2000 B.C. |
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| Hammurabi c. 1792 B.C. |
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| Hyksos Invasion & Influence c. 1730-1570 B.C. |
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| Hittite Civilization c. 1600-1200 B.C. |
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| The Olmecs c. 1300-400 B.C. |
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| The Philistines c. 1190 B.C. |
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| Assyrian Civilization c. 1170-612 B.C. |
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| The Phoenician Civilization c. 1000 B.C. |
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| The Etruscans c. 800s B.C. |
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| Israel's Captivity c. 722 B.C. |
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| Sennacherib 704-681 B.C. |
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| Judah under siege by Assyria c. 701 B.C. |
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| The Powers of Mesopotamia c. 689-612 B.C. |
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| King Ashurbanipal 669-626 B.C. |
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| King Nebuchadnezzar II 605-562 B.C. |
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| The Hanging Gardens of Babylon c. 605 B.C. |
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| Judah's Captivity by Babylon (stage 1) 605 B.C. |
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| The Battle of Carchemish c. 604 B.C. |
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| Judah's Captivity by Babylon (stage 2) 597 B.C. |
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| Judah's Captivity by Babylon (stage 3) 586 B.C. |
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| Buddha 563-483 B.C. |
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| Belshazzar and the Fall of Babylon c. 539 B.C. |
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| Cyrus' Proclamation c. 538 B.C. |
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| Return of the Jews c. 537 B.C. |
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| Darius I 522-485 B.C. |
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| Battle of Marathon 490 B.C. |
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| Xerxes I 485-465 B.C. |
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| Battle at the Bay of Salamis 480 B.C. |
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| Esther c. 480 B.C. |
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| Purim 473 B.C. |
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| Ezra c. 457 B.C. / Artaxerxes c. 457 B.C. |
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| Xenophon 430-357 B.C. |
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| Mausoleum at Halicarnassus c. 353 B.C. |
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| Battle of Granicus c. 334 B.C. |
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| Battle of Issus c. 333 B.C. |
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| Battle of Gaugamela c. 331 B.C. |
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| The Split of Alexander's Empire c. 323 B.C. |
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| Emperor Asoka of India 273-232 B.C |
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| The Punic Wars c. 264-146 B.C. |
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| Marcus Atilius Regulus died 250 B.C. |
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| Hannibal 247-183 B.C. |
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| Publius Cornelius Scipio 185-129 B.C. |
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| Teotihuacan 100-750 A.D. |
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| Shapur I reigned c. 215–272 A.D. |
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| The Maya Civilization c. 250-900 A.D. |
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| The Golden Age of India c. 320-535 A.D. |
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| Byzantine Empire Begins 330 A.D. |
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| Alaric 370-410 A.D. |
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| Attila the Hun 406-453 A.D. |
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| Hengist and Horsa early 400s A.D. |
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| Theodoric 454-526 A.D. |
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| Genseric (Gaiseric) died 477 A.D. |
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| Mohammed 570-632 A.D. |
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| Shotoku 573-622 A.D. |
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| Abu Bakr 573-634 A.D. |
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| Ali 600-661 A.D. |
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| Fatima 616-633 A.D. |
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| The Hegira 622 A.D. |
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| The Arab-Muslim Sweep 633-732 A.D. |
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| Umayyad Dynasty 661-750 A.D. |
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| al-Mansur 712-775 A.D. |
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| Abbassid Dynasty 750-1258 A.D. |
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| Harun al-Rashid 763-809 A.D. |
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| The Maori c. 900 A.D. |
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| Great Zimbabwe 900-1100 A.D. |
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| Kingdom of Benin 1100-1897 A.D. |
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| Samurai Warriors 1192-1868 A.D. |
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| The Shoguns of Japan 1192-1867 A.D. |
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| The Inca Civilization 1220 A.D. |
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| Tenochtitlan c.1325 A.D. |
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| Ottoman Empire 14th-20th centuries A.D. |
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| The Australian Aborigines c. early 1800s A.D. |
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