Timeline of Ancient History

Ancient History is the period bridging Pre-History and Antiquity. The Timeline begins with the advent of writing and the invention of the wheel, two technological innovations that will allow for increases in communication, construction, and warfare. The Pre-History age of hunting/gathering ends as settled villages form into city-states that form into great empires, and intellectual/technological/political progress gains a momentum that will propel the peoples of the world into the cultural flowering of Antiquity.

“If you are to prosper in this world of secrets and powers, you must understand many things that happened before your time. How else can we understand our own time, or predict what may come?”

Clear and concise, the Timeline of Ancient History provides the dates, explanations and imagery of key events in ancient history. From Mesopotamia to Ancient China to the rise of the Greeks, the Timeline of Ancient History covers the period from 3500 BCE to 776 BCE.