Time Periods by Location

Europe

• Classical antiquity (700 BC – 600 AD)
  • Archaic Period (700 BC – 100 AD)
    • Ancient Greece (Greece and Near East, c. 3300 BC – 31 BC (however, this area had settlements as far back as 9000 BC; see Timeline of Ancient Greece)
    • Macedonian Era (399 BC – 300 BC)
    • Hellenistic Greece (323 BC – 146 BC)
    • Ancient Rome (509 BC – 476 AD)
  • Late Antiquity (100 AD – 500 AD)
  • Migration period (Europe 200 – 700)
• Middle Ages (Europe, 5th – 15th centuries)
  • Byzantine era (330 AD – 1453)
  • Dark Ages (Europe, 476 – 800)
  • Early Middle Ages (Europe, 500 – 1000)
    • Viking Age (Scandinavia, Europe, 793 – 1066)
  • High Middle Ages (Europe, 1000 – 1300)
  • Late Middle Ages (Europe, 1300 – 1450)
  • The Renaissance (Europe, 1300 – 1600)
• Early modern period (Europe, 1450 – 1750)
  • Age of Discovery (or Exploration) (Europe, 1400 – 1700)
  • Elizabethan period (United Kingdom, 1558 – 1603)
  • Protestant Reformation (Europe, 16th century)
  • Classicism (Europe, 16th – 18th centuries)
  • Industrious Revolution, (Europe, 16th – 18th centuries)
  • Jacobean Era (United Kingdom, 1603 – 1625)
  • Petrine Era (Russia, 1689 – 1725)
  • Age of Enlightenment (or Reason) (Europe, 18th century)
• Long nineteenth century (1750 – 1914)
  • Georgian Era (United Kingdom, 1714–1830)
  • Industrial Revolution (Europe, United States, elsewhere 18th and 19th centuries)
  • Age of European colonialism and imperialism
  • Romantic Era (1770–1850)
  • Napoleonic Era (1799–1815)
  • Victorian era (United Kingdom, 1837–1901); British hegemony, much of world, around the same time period.
    • Edwardian period (United Kingdom, 1901–1910)

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Middle East

Further information: History of the Middle East, History of Mesopotamia and Islamic period

• Ancient Near East (Sumer, 3100 BC – 500 BC)
  • Jemdet Nasr period (3100 BC – 2900 BC)
  • Early Dynastic Period (2900 BC – 2270 BC)
  • Akkadian Empire (2270 BC – 2083 BC)
  • Gutian Dynasty (2083 BC – 2050 BC)
  • Sumerian renaissance (2050 BC – 1940 BC)
  • First Babylonian Dynasty (1830 BC – 1531 BC), Hittites (1800 BC – 1178 BC)
  • Kassites (1531 BC – 1135 BC), Mitanni (1500 BC – 1300 BC)
  • Neo-Assyrian Empire (934 BC – 609 BC)
  • Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC – 539 BC), Medes (678 BC – 549 BC)
• Persian Empires (550 BC – 651 AD)
  • Achaemenid Empire (550 BC – 330 BC)
  • Conquered by Macedonian Empire (330 BC – 312 BC)
  • Seleucid Empire (312 BC – 63 BC)
  • Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD)
  • Sasanian Empire (224 AD – 651 AD)
• Islamic period (7th – 21st centuries)
  • Rashidun Caliphate (632 – 661)
  • Umayyad Caliphate (661 – 750)
  • Islamic Golden Age (750 – 1300)
  • Abbasid Caliphate (750 – 1258), Fatimid Caliphate (909 – 1171)
    • Buyid dynasty (934 – 1055)
    • Seljuq dynasty (1055 – 1171)
    • Ayyubid dynasty (1171 – 1341)
• Ottoman Empire (1300 – 1923), Safavid Empire (1501-1736)

 

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China

• Shang Dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 BC)
• Zhou Dynasty (1200 BC – 500 BC)
• Warring States period (402 BC – 201 BC)
• Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC)
• Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD)
• Six Dynasties (220 AD – 580 AD)
  • Three Kingdoms (220 AD – 265 AD)
  • Jin Dynasty (265 AD – 420 AD)
  • Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 AD – 580 AD)
• Sui Dynasty (580 – 618)
• Tang Dynasty (623 – 907)
• Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907 – 960)
• Song Dynasty (960 – 1279)
  • Northern Song Dynasty (960 – 1127), Liao Dynasty (907 – 1115), Western Xia Dynasty (1038 – 1227)
  • Southern Song Dynasty (1127 – 1279), Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), Western Xia Dynasty (1038 – 1227)
• Yuan Dynasty (1271 – 1368)
• Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644)
• Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1912)

 

 

India

• Indus Valley Civilization (2500 BC – 1300 BC)
• Vedic period (1500 BC – 500 BC)
  • Mahajanapada kingdoms
• Maurya Empire (321 BC – 185 BC)
• Kushan Empire (185 BC – 220 AD), Satavahana Empire (230 BC – 220 AD),
• Gupta Empire (320 AD – 535 AD)
• Middle kingdoms of India (1 AD – 1279 AD)
  • Pala Empire (750 – 1174)
    • Rashtrakuta Dynasty
  • Sena Empire (1070 – 1230)
  • Hoysala Empire (1026 -1343), Kakatiya Empire (1083 – 1323)
• Medieval India (1206 – 1526)
  • Vijayanagara Empire (1336 – 1646), Gajapati Kingdom (1434 – 1541), Reddy dynasty (1325 – 1448)
• Mughal Empire (1526 – 1857)
• British Raj (1858 – 1947)