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HIS 115 Dates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Neolithic Revolution begins | 11,000 BCE |
| Catalhoyuk flourishes | 7500-5700 BCE |
| Jericho flourishes | 6800-3000 BCE |
| The rise of Uruk in Sumer | 4300-2900 BCE |
| Development of writing | 3200 BCE |
| King Narmer unites Upper and Lower Egypt | 3100 BCE |
| Early Dynastic Period in Sumer | 2900-2500 BCE |
| Reign of Gilgamesh | 2700 BCE |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | 2686-2160 BCE |
| Imhotep engineers the Step Pyramid for King Djoser | 2650 BCE |
| Sargon of Akkad consolidates power in Sumer | 2350 BCE |
| First Intermediate Period in Egypt | 2160-2055 BCE |
| Ziggurat of Ur Constructed | 2100-2000 BCE |
| Middle Kingdom of Egypt | 2055-1650 BCE |
| Reign of Hammurabi | 1792-1750 BCE |
| Minoan civilization flourishes | 1900-1400 BCE |
| Formation of Hittite Empire | 1800-1400 BCE |
| Rise of Babylonia under Hammurabi | 1792 BCE |
| Hyksos invasion of Egypt and Second Intermediate Period | 1650-1550 BCE |
| New Kingdom of Egypt established | 1550-1075 BCE |
| Minoan civilization flourishes | 1900-1400 BCE |
| Mycenaean civilization flourishes | 1700-1200 BCE |
| Hebrew kingdom consolidated | 1000-973 BCE |
| Israel and Judah divided | 924 BCE |
| Rise of the polis | 800-400 BCE |
| Homer epics transcribed | 750 BCE |
| Hoplite tactics become standard | 725-650 BCE |
| Solon's reforms in Athens | 594 BCE |
| Militarization of Sparta | 600 BCE |
| Emergence of the Milesian School (pre-Socratic philosophy) | 600-500 BCE |
| Cyprus of Persia conquers Lydia and controls the Greek cities of Ionia | 546 BCE |
| Overthrows of the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens | 510 BCE |
| Ionian Revolt | 499-494 BCE |
| Battle of Marathon | 490 BCE |
| Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis | 480 BCE |
| Formation of the Delian League | 478 BCE |
| Peloponnesian War begins | 431 BCE |
| Sparta defeats Athens in the Peloponnesian War | 404 BCE |
| Death of Socrates | 399 BCE |
| Xenophon and the Ten Thousand begin their Persian expedition | 401 BCE |
| The struggle for Greek Dominance (Thebes, Athens, Sparta) | 395-338 BCE |
| Epaminondas of Thebes defeats the Spartans at Leuctra | 371 BCE |
| Philip II becomes king of Macedonia | 356 BCE |
| Macedonia defeats Thebes and Athens at Chaeronea | 338 BCE |
| Reign and campaigns of Alexander the Great | 336-323 BCE |
| Formation of Hellenistic kingdoms | 323-275 BCE |
| The Greek dispora | 323-275 BCE |
| Formation of the Aetolian and Achaean Leagues | 300 BCE |
| Rise of Stoicism and Epicureanism | 300-270 BCE |
| The Hellenistic scientific revolution | 300-200 BCE |
| Lifetime of the historian Polybius | 203-120 BCE |
| Legendary founding of Rome | 753 BCE |
| Roman Republic established | 509 BCE |
| Law of the Twelve Tables | 450 BCE |
| "Struggle of the Orders" ends | 287 BCE |
| Punic Wars | 264-146 BCE |
| Lifetime of Jesus | 4 BCE - 30 AD |
| Paul's missionary career | 46-67 |
| Jewish rebellion | 66-70 |
| Expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem | 132-135 |
| Death of Perpetua at Carthage | 203 |
| Rule of the "barracks emperors" | 235-284 |
| Diocletian divides the empire | 284-305 |
| Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge | 312 |
| Edict of Milan | 313 |
| Council of Nicaea convened | 325 |
| Careers of Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine | 370-430 |
| Frontier migrations begin | 376 |
| Pagan religious practices suppressed | 391 |
| Visigoths sack Rome | 410 |
| Odovacar deposes Romulus Augustus | 476 |
| Rule of Theodoric the Ostrogoth | 493-526 |
| Careers of Boethius, Benedict, and Cassiodorus | 500-583 |