x

Timeline of History

"A man (or woman) becomes a hero only after he's dead. When he's alive, you can't see the divinity in him (or her), as a person among us, so you elevate them after their deaths." (The prophets; only older prophets, not modern day prophets.)

"Each religion presents history in their own manner in the name of god's will, so how convenient is it to present themselves as right in history? To all believers, they are the ones who are right."

Also, the Jews didn't agree with Muslims because his teachings differed from their own scriptures. How convenient is it to then reject the interpretation of what's true by rejecting anything that deviates from the previous model? It is one thing to say they don't believe it, and another to say that it deviates from the scriptures. If it didn't deviate from the scriptures, it'd be the same, isn't it? I'd say the same is true for Muslims, because now they too will not believe in anything besides their scriptures. [Verify context of deviation and decide if you need this.]

  • Lambda-CDM Model of the Big Bang Theory

(don't go too far Jyothish)
Firstly, our models of physical cosmology has consensus on the Lambda-CDM parametrization of the Big Bang Theory, based on QFT and General Relativity. The parts beyond physics (meta-physics) are the subject of religions and philosophy. I don't think we disagree on physical cosmology, but some people seem to do. But I'll be skipping that part, and focusing only on the human civilizations. So we had the solar system form, the Cambrian explosion happen and the evolution of mammals.

Now, the history of human civilization can be mapped to the oldest known traces, or the cradles of civilization.

With agriculture, food became more reliable, but less varied, and people became more prone to diseases, and settling together made diseases easier to spread.

INTERMEDIATE NOTE: Semitic Languages
  • [Semitic languages were a Afroasiatic group of languages including Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, etc.]
  • Jesus spoke Aramaic and Hebrew
  • He was from Nazareth in Galilee
  • Aramaic > Western Aramaic > Jewish Palestinian Aramaic > Galilean Dialect
  • Heiroglyphics > Sumerian (Of Sumer), Elamtite/Hatamtite/Susian> East Semitic Akkadian, West Semitic > Central Semitic > Northwest Semtic, Arabic > Aramaic, Canaanite Languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.) > Classical Arabic (Quran based)
  • Semite was derived from Shem, Noah's faithful son
Syria and Palestine
  • The name Syria derives from Assyria, which originated in modern day Iraq
  • The Syria region refers to Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine, which is just the Levant in the Narrow definition (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Hatay Province (Turkey), Cyprus, and UK Territories in Cyprus Islands)
  • During Hellenistic period, the term Coele-Syria applied to the entire Levant
  • Under Roman rule, it referred to the province of Syria, which was divided into Syria Phoenecia and Coele Syria, and to the province of Syria Palaestina.
  • After the Muslim conquest of the Levant, it was renamed to Sham
  • In the 19th century, the name Syria was revived in it's modern Arabic form to denote the whole of Bilad al-Sham, as Suriyah or Suriyya.
  • After WWI, Britain and France split up the regions
  • Basically Palestine was known to the Arabs as western Syria, not Palestine, which was a Roman and British name.

Prehistory

[Stone Age] - Palaeolithic and Neolithic

  • People spread everywhere across Europe, Africa and Asia
  • 55000 BC: Australian aboriginals were found in this period

[Last Ice Age]

  • People travelled from Asia to Americas through the bridge
  • Neolithic Revolution (or the First Agricultural Revolution) in the West Asian Fertile Crescent saw the transition from hunting and gathereing to agriculture and settlements
From Wikipedia: Origin of Agricultural Settlements


Map of the world showing approximate centres of origin of agriculture and its spread in prehistory: the Fertile Crescent (11,000 BP), the Yangtze and Yellow River basins (9,000 BP) and the Papua New Guinea Highlands (9,000โ€“6,000 BP), Central Mexico (5,000โ€“4,000 BP), Northern South America (5,000โ€“4,000 BP), sub-Saharan Africa (5,000โ€“4,000 BP, exact location unknown), eastern North America (4,000โ€“3,000 BP).

From Wikipedia: Indo-European migrations


Scheme of Indo-European language dispersals from c.ย 4000 to 1000 BCE according to the widely held Kurgan hypothesis.

โ€“ Center: Steppe cultures
1 (black): Anatolian languages (archaic PIE)
2 (black): Afanasievo culture (early PIE)
3 (black): Yamnaya culture expansion (Pontic-Caspian steppe, Danube Valley) (late PIE)
4A (black): Western Corded Ware
4B-C (blue & dark blue): Bell Beaker; adopted by Indo-European speakers
5A-B (red): Eastern Corded ware
5C (red): Sintashta (proto-Indo-Iranian)
6 (magenta): Andronovo
7A (purple): Indo-Aryans (Mittani)
7B (purple): Indo-Aryans (India)
[NN] (dark yellow): proto-Balto-Slavic
8 (grey): Greek
9 (yellow): Iranians
โ€“ [not drawn]: Armenian, expanding from Catacomb culture into the South Caucasus

Holocene Epoch Begins

6-3 Millenia BC (5400-2350 BC)

  • 5400 BC: Sumerian settlements begin
  • 8000 BC: Neolithic settlements
  • 6000 BC: Neolithic settlements appear all over Egypt

[5000 BC: Chalcolithic Age]

  • Mesopotamia was the site of the earliest civilizations
    • It was the Greek name for the valley between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris in modern day Iraq.
    • Mesopotamia and the Levant comprised the Fertile Crescent
    • 4100 BC: The first "civilization" in Mesopotamia was that of Sumer, during the Uruk Period
  • 3500 BC Indo-European nomads from the European steppe learn to tame horses and cattle, which helped during the Piora Oscillation, a cold period post the Holocene Climatic Optimum
    • The Piora Oscillation is also associated with the climate changes at the end of the Uruk Period, and with the Flood of Noah in the Book of Genesis and the floods in the Epic of Gilgamesh

[3300 BC Bronze Age]

  • Nile Valley Civilization (Egypt)
  • 2200 BC: The Indo-Europeans learn how to put wheels on horses
  • North China Plain Civilization (Eastern China)
  • Indus River Valley / Harappan Civilization (Northwest India and Pakistan)
  • Norte Chico / Caral Supe Civilization (Mesoamerica)

Kingdoms to sort and chronological list of civilizations

Sorting Kingdoms

- 4100 - 3100 BC: Uruk Period
- Jemdet Nasr Period / Uruk III Phase
- Early Dynastic Period
- Akkadian Empire
- Gutians
- 2500 - 2400 BC: First Dynasty of Ur / Ur I
- 2112 - 2004 BC: Third Dynasty of Ur / Ur III / Neo-Sumerian Empire
- 2025 - 1763 BC: Isin-Larsa Period || Old Assyrian Period || Mari and other states
- It was attacked by Amorites from the West and Elamites from the East
- 1894 - 1595 BC: Old/First Babylonian Empire/ Amorite Dynasty by King Hammurabi
- 1531 - 1155 BC: Kassaties and their Sack of Babylon
- 1155โ€“1026 BC: Second Dynasty of Isin,
- 911โ€“605 BC: Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Neo-Babylonian Empire / Chaldean Empire
- 539 BC: Achaemenid Empire

Sorting Greek History
  • 2700-1500 BC: Minoan Civilization (In Crete)
  • Myacenean Greeks
  • Ancient Greeks (Macedonian Empire)
History of Sumer
  • New Stone Age: c.โ€‰10000ย โ€“ c.โ€‰5000 BC
  • Ubaid period: c.โ€‰6500ย โ€“ c.โ€‰4100 BC
  • Copper Age: c.โ€‰5000ย โ€“ c.โ€‰3300 BC
  • Uruk period: c.โ€‰4100ย โ€“ c.โ€‰3100 BC
  • Uruk XIVโ€“V phases: c.โ€‰4100ย โ€“ c.โ€‰3300 BC
  • Uruk IV phase: c.โ€‰3300ย โ€“ c.โ€‰3100 BC
  • Early Bronze Age I: c.โ€‰3300ย โ€“ c.โ€‰3000 BC
  • Jemdet Nasr period (Uruk III phase): c.โ€‰3100ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2900 BC
  • Uruk III phase: c.โ€‰3100ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2900 BC
  • Early Bronze Age II: c.โ€‰3000ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2700 BC
  • Early Dynastic period c.โ€‰2900ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2334 BC
  • Early Dynastic I period: c.โ€‰2900ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2800 BC
  • Eridu dynasty (Alulim)
  • Bad-tibira dynasty (Dumuzid)
  • Larak dynasty (En-sipad-zid-ana)
  • Sippar dynasty (Enmeduranki)
  • Shuruppak dynasty (Ziusudra)
  • Kish I dynasty (Enmebaragesi)
  • Early Dynastic II period: c.โ€‰2800ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2600 BC
  • Uruk I dynasty (Gilgamesh)
  • Early Dynastic IIIa period: c.โ€‰2600ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2500 BC
  • Ur I dynasty
  • Awan dynasty
  • Kish II dynasty
  • Hamazi dynasty
  • Early Dynastic IIIb period: c.โ€‰2500ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2334 BC
  • Uruk II dynasty
  • Ur II dynasty
  • Adab dynasty
  • Mari dynasty
  • Kish III dynasty
  • Akshak dynasty
  • Kish IV dynasty
  • Uruk III dynasty
  • Early Bronze Age III: c.โ€‰2700ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2200 BC
  • Akkadian period: c.โ€‰2334ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2154 BC
  • Akkad dynasty (Sargon)
  • Early Bronze Age IV: c.โ€‰2200ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2100 BC
  • Gutian period: c.โ€‰2154ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2119 BC
  • Uruk IV dynasty
  • Gutian dynasty
  • Middle Bronze Age I: c.โ€‰2100ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2000 BC
  • Ur III period: c.โ€‰2119ย โ€“ c.โ€‰2004 BC
  • Uruk V dynasty
  • Ur III dynasty
  • Middle Bronze Age II A: c.โ€‰2000ย โ€“ c.โ€‰1750 BC
  • Isin-Larsa period: c.โ€‰2004ย โ€“ c.โ€‰1736 BC
  • Isin I dynasty
  • Larsa dynasty
  • Middle Bronze Age II B: c.โ€‰1750ย โ€“ c.โ€‰1650 BC
  • Old Babylonian period: c.โ€‰1736ย โ€“ c.โ€‰1475 BC
  • Sealand dynasty
History of Mesopotamia
History of Egypt
History of South Asia

Paleolithic and Mesolithic age

- Madrasian culture ( 1.5 MYA)
- Soanian culture (c.โ€‰500,000โ€“125,000 BCE)

- South Asian Stone Age (c.โ€‰50,000โ€“5000 BCE)

Neolithic age

- Bhirrana culture (7570โ€“6200 BCE)
- Mehrgarh culture (7000โ€“3300 BCE)

Bronze Age

Bronze Age India (3500โ€“1500 BCE)

- Kalibangan (3500โ€“2000 BCE)
- Indus Valley civilization (3300โ€“1300 BCE)
- Early Harappan Culture (3300โ€“2600 BCE)
- Mature Harappan Culture (2600โ€“1750 BCE)
- Late Harappan Culture (1750โ€“1300 BCE)
- Ahar Banas culture
- Copper Hoard culture
- Painted Grey Ware culture
- Black and red ware culture
- Bara culture
- Malwa culture
- Jorwe culture
- Other chalcolithic sites include Patapadu (Andhra Pradesh)

Iron Age and Vedic period

Main article: Vedic period

- Vedic period (c. 1500โ€“600 BCE)
- Puru Kingdom (c. 1500โ€“1200 BCE)
- Brihadratha Dynasty (c. 1700โ€“689 BCE)
- Gandhara Kingdom (c. 1500โ€“500 BCE)
- Kuru Dynasty (c. 1200โ€“350 BCE)
- Panchala Dynasty (c. 1200โ€“500 BCE)
- Avanti Kingdom (c. 1200โ€“300 BCE)
- Later Vedic period (c. 1000โ€“600 BCE)
- Matsya Kingdom ย  ( c.1000โ€“500 BCE )
- Chedi Kingdom ย  ( c.1000โ€“300 BCE)
- Surasena Kingdom ย  (c.1000โ€“600 BCE)
- Kamboja Kingdom ย  (c. 1000โ€“550 BCE)
- Videha Kingdom ย  (c. 800โ€“300 BCE)
- Pradyota dynasty ย  (c. 682โ€“544 BCE)
- Haryanka Kingdom ย  (544โ€“415 BCE)
- Pandyan Kingdom ย  (600 BCEโ€“1650 CE)
- Chera Kingdom ย  (600 BCEโ€“1102 CE)
- Chola Kingdom ย  (600 BCEโ€“1279 CE)
- Ror Kingdom ย  (450 BCEโ€“489 CE)
- Shishunaga dynasty ย  (415โ€“321 BCE)
- Nanda Empire ย  (421โ€“345 BCE)
- Malava Dynasty ย  (392 BCEโ€“78 CE)
- Macedonian Empire ย  (330โ€“323 BCE)
- Maurya Empire ย  (321โ€“184 BCE)
- Pallava Kingdom ย  (250 BCEโ€“800 CE)
- Maha-Megha-Vahana Empire ย  (250 BCEโ€“400 CE)

Middle kingdoms

Main article: Middle kingdoms of India

- Satavahana Empire ย  (230 BCEโ€“220 CE)
- Kuninda Kingdom ย  (200 BCEโ€“300 CE)
- Indo-Scythian Kingdom ย  (200 BCEโ€“400 CE)
- Shunga Empire ย  (185โ€“73 BCE)
- Indo-Greek Kingdom ย  (180 BCEโ€“10 CE)
- Kanva Empire ย  (75โ€“26 BCE)
- Indo-Parthian Kingdom ย  (21โ€“130s CE)
- Western Satrap Empire ย  (35โ€“405 CE)
- Kushan Empire ย  (60โ€“240 CE)
- Bharshiva Dynasty ย  (170โ€“350 CE)
- Nagas of Padmavati ย  (210โ€“340 CE)
- Sasanian Empire ย  (224โ€“651 CE)
- Indo-Sassanid Kingdom ย  (230โ€“360 CE)
- Vakataka Empire ย  (250sโ€“6th century CE)
- Kalabhra Empire ย  (250โ€“600 CE)
- Gupta Empire ย  (280โ€“550 CE)
- Kadamba Empire ย  (345โ€“525 CE)
- Western Ganga Kingdom ย  (350โ€“1000 CE)
- Kamarupa Kingdom ย  (350โ€“1100 CE)
- Vishnukundina Empire ย  (420โ€“624 CE)
- Maitraka Empire ย  (475โ€“767 CE)
- Huna Kingdom ย  (475โ€“576 CE)
- Rai Kingdom ย  (489โ€“632 CE)
- Guhila dynasty (500-1950 CE)
- Turk Shahis (500โ€“850 CE)
- Hindu Shahis (850โ€“1026 CE)
- Chalukya Empire ย  (543โ€“753 CE)
- Maukhari Empire ย  (550sโ€“8th century CE)
- Kalachuris of Mahishmati (6thโ€“7th century CE)
- Harsha Empire ย  (606โ€“647 CE)
- Eastern Chalukya Kingdom ย  (624โ€“1075 CE)
- Rashidun Caliphate ย  (632โ€“661 CE)
- Gurjara-Pratihara Empire ย  (650โ€“1036 CE)
- Umayyad Caliphate ย  (661โ€“750 CE)
- Kalachuris of Tripuri ย  (7th-12th century CE)
- Pala Empire ย  (750โ€“1174 CE)
- Rashtrakuta Empire ย  (753โ€“982 CE)
- Paramara Kingdom ย  (800โ€“1327 CE)
- Yadava Empire ย  (850โ€“1334 CE)
- Chaulukya Kingdom ย  (942โ€“1244 CE)
- Western Chalukya Empire ย  (973โ€“1189 CE)
- Lohara Kingdom ย  (1003โ€“1320 CE)
- Hoysala Empire ย  (1040โ€“1346 CE)
- Sena Empire ย  (1070โ€“1230 CE)
- Eastern Ganga Empire ย  (1078โ€“1434 CE)
- Zamorin Kingdom ย  (1102โ€“1766 CE)
- Kakatiya Kingdom ย  (1083โ€“1323 CE)
- Chutiya Kingdom ย  (1187-1673 CE)
- Kalachuris of Kalyani ย  (1156โ€“1184 CE)

Late medieval period

Late medieval period ย  (1206โ€“1596)

- Delhi Sultanate ย  (1206โ€“1526 CE)
- Mamluk Sultanate ย  (1206โ€“1290 CE)
- Khalji Sultanate ย  (1290โ€“1320 CE)
- Tughlaq Sultanate ย  (1320โ€“1414 CE)
- Sayyid Sultanate ย  (1414โ€“1451 CE)
- Lodi Sultanate ย  (1451โ€“1526 CE)
- Deva Kingdom ย  (12th centuryโ€“13th century CE)
- Ahom kingdom ย  (1228โ€“1826 CE)
- Chitradurga Kingdom ย  (1300โ€“1779 CE)
- Reddy Kingdom ย  (1325โ€“1448 CE)
- Vijayanagara Empire ย  (1336โ€“1646 CE)
- Bengal Sultanate ย  (1352โ€“1576 CE)
- Ilyas Shahi Sultanate (1352-1487 CE)
- Hussain Shahi Sultanate (1494-1538 CE)
- Karrani Sultanate (1564-1576 CE)
- Garhwal Kingdom ย  (1358โ€“1803 CE)
- Mysore Kingdom ย  (1399โ€“1947 CE)
- Gajapati Empire ย  (1434โ€“1541 CE)
- Keladi Kingdom ย  (1499โ€“1763 CE)
- Deccan Sultanates ย  (1490โ€“1596 CE)
- Koch Kingdom ย  (1515โ€“1947 CE)

Early modern period

Early modern period ย  (1526โ€“1858)

- Bengal Sultanate ย  (1352โ€“1576 CE)
- Hussain Shahi Sultanate (1494-1538 CE)
- Karrani Sultanate (1564-1576 CE)
- Mughal Empire ย  (1526โ€“1858 CE)
- Sur Empire ย  (1540โ€“1556 CE)
- Madurai Kingdom ย  (1559โ€“1736 CE)
- Thanjavur Kingdom ย  (1572โ€“1918 CE)
- Marava Kingdom ย  (1600โ€“1750 CE)
- Thondaiman Kingdom ย  (1650โ€“1948 CE)
- Maratha Empire ย  (1674โ€“1947 CE)
- Sikh Confederacy ย  (1707โ€“1799 CE)
- Durrani Empire ย  (1747โ€“1823 CE)
- Travancore Kingdom ย  (1729โ€“1947 CE)
- Sikh Empire ย  (1799โ€“1849 CE)

European colonial period

Colonial period ย  (1510โ€“1961 CE)

- Portuguese India ย  (1510โ€“1961 CE)
- Dutch India ย  (1605โ€“1825 CE)
- Danish India ย  (1620โ€“1869 CE)
- French India ย  (1759โ€“1954 CE)
- Company Raj ย  (1757โ€“1858 CE)
- British Raj ย  (1858โ€“1947 CE)
- Partition of British India ย  (1947 CE)

Kingdoms of Sri Lanka

Main article: History of Sri Lanka

- Kingdom of Tambapanni ย  (543โ€“505 BCE)
- Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara ย  (505โ€“377 BCE)
- Anuradhapura Kingdom ย  (377 BCEโ€“1017 CE)
- Kingdom of Ruhuna ย  (200 CE)
- Kingdom of Polonnaruwa ย  (300โ€“1310 CE)
- Jaffna Kingdom ย  (1215โ€“1624 CE)
- Kingdom of Dambadeniya ย  (1220โ€“1272 CE)
- Kingdom of Yapahuwa ย  (1272โ€“1293 CE)
- Kingdom of Kurunegala ย  (1293โ€“1341 CE)
- Kingdom of Gampola ย  (1341โ€“1347 CE)
- Kingdom of Raigama ย  (1347โ€“1415 CE)
- Kingdom of Kotte ย  (1412โ€“1597 CE)
- Kingdom of Sitawaka ย  (1521โ€“1594 CE)
- Kingdom of Kandy ย  (1469โ€“1815 CE)
- Portuguese Ceylon ย  (1505โ€“1658 CE)
- Dutch Ceylon ย  (1656โ€“1796 CE)
- British Ceylon ย  (1815โ€“1948 CE)


3 Millenia BC

Time Period 1 (2350 BC - 1700 BC)

Mesopotamia, Africa and Middle East

  • 2700 - 1500 BC: Middle east is getting complicated: Mitanni, Assyria, Babylon, Elam, Hyksos (Canaanites in Egypt and Sinai)
    • Canaanites appear in the region
    • [Canaan is the grandson of Noah]
    • [He was cursed to perpetual slavery because his father Ham "looked upon" the drunk and naked Noah]
    • [The Bible separates Israelites from Canaanites, but archaeology points that Israelites are a subset of Canaanites]
    • [The Twelve sons of Jacob fled to Egypt after a drought in Canaan]
    • [The Twelve were led out of Egypt by Moses to Canaan, and they formed the Twelve tribes of Israel]
  • 2334 - 2154 BC: Akkadian empire was the first known major "empire" in Mesopotamia.
  • There was a merger of Sumerian civilization with Akkadian to form a Sumero-Akkadian civilization, and Akkadian would replace Sumerian

2 Millenia BC

Time Period 3 (1700 BC - 1200 BC)

Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Assyria was a major civilization from Mesopotamia, a cradle of civilization. Assyrian history has been classified from the Bronze age (35th century BC) to the late Iron Age (lasted till AD 1500) as Early Assyrian, Old Assyrian, Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian and post-Imperial Assyrian.
  • Babylon was another city in Mesopotamia, who were in rivalry with Assyrians.
  • The Chaldeans were a Semitic speaking people who settled somewhere in Assyria.

Europe, Mesopotamia

  • 1750 BC: The Indo-Europeans arrived at Anatolia and started settling
  • Everyone else in Mesopotamia copy their horses
  • 1650 BC: They made the Hittite Empire
  • Mycenaean Greece also forms
  • 1273 BC: 12 Tribes of Israel arrive in Canaan

Indus River Valley

  • 1700 BC: Indus River Valley Civilization died

Indo-Europe

  • Some of the Indo-Europeans, Indo-Iranians founded the religion of Zoroastrianism
    • Zoroastrianism was the most common religion is the Achaemenic, Parthian and Sassanid Persian empires.
  • Some of the Indo-Iranians came to India, and wrote hymns and stuff (Vedic Era)
    • Hinduism was a combination of the Aryan Vedas and the Dravidian Hinduism
    • The Vedas included the yajnas, yaagams, etc.
    • So Hinduism has a lot in common with Zoroastrianism.
    • [Indo-Europeans branched into Iranians, Indo-Aryans, Celtics, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Slavs]
    • [Indo-Iranians split into Iranians and Indo-Aryans]
      • According to the Rigveda and Avesta, being an Indo-Iranian or Aryan was about rituals and linguistic, not about race. If you did the right rituals, you would be an Aryan.
      • Later texts reinterpreted the meaning as Aryans being a honorific title for Brahmins, and the non-Aryans were seen as a lower class.
      • [Indo-Iranians were the ones who called themselves Aryans, even though the term -arya is of Proto-Indo-European origin]
    • [By the beginning of CE, they had control over all of Europe and Western Asia]
    • [By the Medieval period, only Semitic, Dravidian, Caucasian, Uralic and Basque remained of the native languages of Europe and Western Asia]
    • [Indo-European languages include English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Hittite, etc.]
      • [Urdu is Indo-European, but was standardized as Persian Arabic script]

Time Period 4 (1200 BC - 1000 BC)

Mesopotamia

  • Bronze Age collapsed
  • Phoenicians start trade and invent the alphabets
  • [Iron Age]

America

  • Olmecs start a civilization in Mexico

Time Period 5 (1000 BC - 700 BC)

Mesopotamia

  • Phoenicians start colonies
  • Greeks also copy their ideas and make colonies
  • 800 BC: Phoenicians made the Carthage colony that made it's own colonies

Asia

  • ~1000 BC: China was getting decentralized, with the philosophies of Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism (Qin, Chu, Jin, Qi, Yang, Zhou)

Time Period 6 (700 BC - 300 BC)

Mesopotamia, Asia

  • 678 BC: The Median Empire forms in Iran
  • 671 BC: Assyrians captured the Babylonian kingdom with the founding of Neo-Assyrian empire.
  • Chaldeans broke away from the Neo-Assyrian empire into the Babylon
  • 612 BC: Neo-Assyrian empire was captured by the Neo-Babylonian empire, also known as the Chaldean empire, also from Mesopotamia.
    • [The Bible refers to Chaldeans as idolators who attacked the Jews. Some say that they are descendants of Abraham who turned to idolatry. Historically, the Chaldeans were educated people who studied science, history, languages, astronomy and also magic and astrology.]
  • The Median empire conquered part of the Neo-Babylonian empire
  • 539 BC: They were conquered by the First Persian Empire, the Achaemenid Empire.
    • Yehud now became Yehud Medinata

Asia

  • ~500 BC: Buddha was enlightened in Bodh Gaya
  • ~500 BC Confucius was figuring out morals

Europe

  • ~600 BC: Greeks started philosophizing
  • Alexander from Macedonia, Greece conquered the entire Persian Empire and was called Alexander the Great
  • The Macedonian Empire was split into Cassander, Lysimachus, Antigonus, Seleucus, Ptolemy
    • 312 BC: Yehud was now called Coelo-Syria, in the Seleucid Empire

Time Period 7 (300 BC - 220 AD)

India

  • Chandragupta gave elephants to keep Seleucus at bay and conquered all of India and formed the Mauryan empire (except the Tamil Kings)
  • The Tamil Kings (Kerala and Tamil Nadu) were merchants and had spices
  • They traded spices with the Arabians via the seas

China

  • 221 BC: China put itself back together with the Qin Dynasty which followed Legalism
  • They now had three philosophies: Confucianism (morals), Taoism (Dao) and Legalism (Obey the Law)
  • 206 BC: The Han Dynasty took over China and Confucianism was once again back
  • Horse nomads of Mongolian Steppe ransacked Qin dynasty
  • Xiongu confederacy appears in Mongolian Steppe?

Eurasia

  • The Greek Kingdoms (Hellenistic Kingdoms) are all now Hellenistic
    • 140 BC: Hasmonian Dynasty takes control over Judea
    • 37 BC: Herodian Kingdom succeeds it
    • 4 BC: When Herod died, his kingdom was inherited by his four sons to form the Herodian tetrarchy
  • Parthians leave Hellenistic Empire
  • Jesus was born, marking the Common Era (CE), also denoted as Anno Domini (AD).
  • 6 AD: Kingdom of Judea becomes an independent state in the Hellenistic Empire
  • Parthians conquer a part of the Hellenistic Empire (East Central Asia) to form Parthian Empire
  • Roman Empire captured the entire Mediterranean belt
  • Roman Empire took a part of the Kingdom of Judea
  • 33 AD: Crucifixion of Jesus
  • 66-73 AD: Siege of Jerusalem and destruction of the Second Temple
  • 132 AD: Judea was merged with Galilee to form "Syria Palaestina" or "Roman Palestine"

Time Period 8 (220-310)

Asia

  • China invents the Silk road
  • China conquered Vietnam
  • India finds a sea route to Eastern China
  • India spread Hinduism and Buddhism to Southeast Asia
  • Funan trading kingdom appears in Southeast Asia
  • 220 AD: Buddhism travels from Afghanistan to Eastern China, but before it reaches, China collapses again into Wei, Wu and Shu
  • 225 AD: Persians start the Sassanid Empire
  • 280 AD: China forms the Jin Dynasty
  • 320 AD: China split into Cheng Han, Liang, Zhao and Jin

Africa

  • 300 AD: Axum empire in Africa built the Obelisk
  • Bantu in Africa and Malay from Southeast Asia populate Madagascar
  • Ghana Empire sells gold crossing Sahara with camels
INTERMEDIATE NOTE: Mesopotamian Nations, Jews and Arabs

(Akkadian), Amorite, Kassite, Elamite, Aramean, Assyrian, Chaldean, Persian, Greek and Parthian

Jews are named after the Kingdom of Judah.
Kingdom of Israel had Samaria, Galilee and some of Transjordan. Kingdom of Judah had Jerusalem.
Kingdom of Israel was also known as Kingdom of Samaria
Kingdom of Israel was assimilated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Kingdom of Israel was assimilated later by the Neo-Babylonian Empire
Kingdom of Judah was then called Yehud province

Some of the Jews exiled during the Babylonian exile came to Mattanchery
Arabs arrived in Palestine after 1st century AD.

Time Period 9 (310-600)

Eurasia

  • 312 AD: Emperor Constantine The Great began favouring Christianity
  • 330 AD: Constantine The Great moved the capital of Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople to be closer to the Persian Sassanid Empire
  • 476 AD: Roman empire was invaded by the barbarians, or non-Romans
  • Roman empire was split into Western Roman empire and Eastern Roman empire, also called the Byzantine empire

Asia

  • 400 AD: Golden Age of India (Medicine, Astronomy, Maths, Science)
  • Gupta Empire by Chandra Gupta I starts
  • 576 AD: Gรถktรผrks have taken over the entire Eurasian Steppe (Middle)
  • India is broken, China is back together with the Sui Dynasty
  • Trading kingdoms of Southeast Asia get bigger Dvaravati, Chenla and Champa
  • Korea has 3 kingdoms: Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje
  • Japan has a kingdom named Yamato, or the sunrise kingdom

America

  • Mayans figure out the stars
  • Teotihuacan is a highly populated city

Time Period 10 (610-780: The Founding of Islam)

Asia

INTERMEDIATE NOTE: Islam and Antisemitism
  • [Islamic Antisemitism is influenced by European influence rather than the Quran, Quran just gives more reasons for people to criticize Jews]
  • The Hadiths say that the Judgement day will not come until Jews and Muslims fight (Source)
  • In the medieval period, although there were restrictions, Jews enjoyed a better life in Muslim world than Christian Europe (Source)
  • Things started to slowly change towards the 19th century, with the slow rise of Anti-semitism
  • Ottoman Sultan believed the empire was declining due to punishment from Allah for not implementing Sharia law - and this led to persecution of Christians (not Jews though).
  • With the beginning of Nazism, and with the Arab revolts, the general sentiment became popular with Arabs too (although many Arabs defended their resident Jews from the Holocaust)
  • They started spreading Islam and conquering lands
  • 642 AD: Battle of Nihavend with the Persian Sassanid Empire
    • Zoroastrianism lost it's dominant position when this happened, but they still lived on
    • Some of them had to move to the Indian subcontinent, where they lived as Parsis, and they became an influential minority under the British rule. They later migrated to different parts of the world, and live in diasporic communities nowadays.
    • Parsis or Farsis are basically Persians
  • 650 AD: Rashidun Caliphate conquers the Middle East Asia and Northern Africa, including the holy land and the Persian Sassanid Empire and they reached Central Asia
    • The Turks of Central Asia were starting to convert to Islam, and they were also influenced by Persian civilization more than Turkish
    • Most Turks were domestic servants in the Umayyad caliphate (second caliphate), but by the Abbasid caliphate (third caliphate), they were trained as soldiers, and some of them became commanders. As the Abbasid caliphate weakened, they assumed control.

Europe

  • Roman Empire's gone, but the Pope is still the Pope
  • New kingdoms all over Europe: Avar, Aquitaine, Anglo/Saxon Kingdoms, Wessex, Bavaria, Irish Kingdoms, Visigoth, Brittonic Kingdoms, Austrasia, Lombard, Neustria, Samo's Kingdom
  • The Moors (Black Arabs) spread over all of the Arabic countries and Western Europe

Time Period 11 (780-1070)

Middle East Asia

  • 786 AD: Baghdad House of Wisdom and the Islamic Golden Age

Africa

  • On the Swahili Coast of Africa, Swahilians sell products via sea routes

South East Asia

  • Srivijaya Empire of Southeast Asia controls part of the sea route from India to Eastern China
  • Enlightenment in Tibetan Mountains

Europe

  • Franks have the biggest kingdom in Europe
  • 800 AD: The Pope invites King Charlemagne to his kingdom for Christmas and crowns him as the head of the Roman Empire (even though what remains of Roman Empire is now Byzantine Empire, and the Pope isn't there)
  • France broke their kingdom. Western France would later be called France.
  • The northerners, or Norse go to the northern north. They find a green land and an icy land. They named the icy land Greenland and the green land Iceland
  • They invade places like Canada and were called Vikings
  • 882 AD: The Rus, or the Kievan Rus formed in Asia. They're not sure if they are the Vikings, they say they aren't.
  • Pope forms the Holy Roman Empire. Most of it is Germany though.
  • New kingdoms: Norway, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Kievan Rus, Scotland, England, Welsh States
  • All of them get Christianized, but fight over Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox brands
  • 1066 AD: William the Conqueror conquers England
    • He invited the French Jews over to England

Time Period 12 (1070-1200)

Eurasia

  • 1071 AD: The Seljuk Turks invaded the region from Central Asia to the Levant, including parts of the Byzantine empire (Anatolian peninsula)
    • This weakened the Zoroastrian culture in Iran
  • 1099 AD: Constantine took the help of Pope in Western Roman empire to start the crusades to capture back the holy land
  • Italians from Genoa and Venice get spice trades from the Seljuk Empire

America

  • The Classic Maya civilization collapses
  • 1100 AD: Tolteks appears, and then they disappear
  • Mississippi appears along the mounds
  • Pueblo appears, and it's a town in a cliff

Asia

  • 1150 AD: Khmer appears in Cambodia and Pagan (also called Bagan) appears in Burma
  • Vietnam, or Dia Vet unconquered itself
  • Korea, or Goryeo became itself
  • 1192 AD: Japan is so addicted to art that the Samurais form the Shogunate military and takes over
    • They let the emperor still be the emperor, but the Shogun is actually the leader
  • China invented bombs and typing

Time Period 13 (1200-1400)

Eurasia

  • 1228-1259 AD: Mongols invaded all of central Asia and Europe under Genghis Khan
    • This weakened the Seljuk Empire
    • The remaining Zoroastrianism followers withdrew to the desert towns of Kerman and Yazd
  • The Mongol Empire breaks into Yuan, Golden Horde, Chagatai, Ilkhanate

India

  • Mu'iz Al-din Muhammad (Ghurid Sultan) of the Turks were unaffected by the Mongols, because they were busy invading India and forming the Delhi Sultanate

Australia

  • Tu'i Tonga empire conquers the Pacific Ocean

Africa

  • Swahili gets all its gold from The Great Zimbabwe
  • The Khanem Empire forms around the African Chad lake
  • 1324 AD: Mansa Musa, the King of Mali travels the world (I guess to Mecca) letting everyone know he's rich

Europe

  • Christians conquer Liberia from the Muslims to form Spain and Portugal (not Spain)
  • Spanish Inquisition
  • 1350 AD: Black Death kills half of Europe

Asia

  • China's back with the Ming Dynasty
  • 1400 AD: Khmer shares kingdoms with Ayutthaya and Ian Xang
  • The Majapahit controls part of the India China sea routes.

Time Period 14 (1450-1460)

Europe

  • 1450 AD: Italy is rich and cares about art and the Ancient Greek Classics (The Renaissance Period)
  • Gutenberg invents the printing press

Eurasia

  • The fourth crusade ended up capturing the Byzantine empire as part of the Latin empire and weaking Constantinople
  • 1453 AD: Ottoman Turks conquered the rest of the Byzantine empire, and founded the Ottoman Empire, or Turkish Empire
    • They were
    • Ottomans banned India from the European spice trade
    • They established the Ottoman Caliphate (fourth caliphate), as the successors of Sunni Islam
INTERMEDIATE NOTE: Islam and Palestine
  • [Sunni muslims belive the caliphates should be elected. Shi'a Muslims believe that they should be an imam chosen by god from the Ahl-al-Bayat (family of the prophet). To Sunnis the first caliphate was Abu Bakr, the father in law of Mohammed. To Shia Muslims, it was Ali ibn-Talib, the husband of Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed.]
  • Twelver Shi'ism is the largest branch of Shi'a Islam, consisting of 85% of Shi'a Muslims. They believe in twelve divinely ordained leaders, or the Twelve Imams, and that the last of them (Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi) is currently living in secret and will reappear in the end times as the final Islamic leader (or Mahdi) to rid the world of evil and injustice, after which Jesus will return to rule the world.
  • Mahdi is not based on the Quran, but on the haddiths.
  • [Cis-Jordan was the area west of Jordan river (historically known as Canaan and Mandatory Palestine (as of British League of Nations), now part of Israel and Palestine), and Trans-Jordan was the area east of Jordan river (now Jordan). Basically Trans-Joradan and Cis-Jordan was in combination called Palestine]

Time Period 15 (1490-1500)

Europe, America

  • The Habsburg married royal families all over Europe
  • 1500 AD: Part of Lithuania is conquered by Ivan The Great, building Muscovy
  • Portugal finds another way to India to get spices
  • 1492 AD: Christopher Columbus asks Portugal to find a way to India by travelling west since the Earth is round. Portugal refuses, so he asks Spain a couple of time and they agree.
  • 1494 AD: Columbus reaches the Indies and what they think is Japan (but North America though)
  • They make the Treaty of Tordesillas to decide who of Spain and Portugal gets which part of the world
  • Aztec empire of North America and Inca empire of South America start, but Europe had just discovered their continent

Asia

  • Baburs of Timurids (what was part of the Seljuk Empire after Mongol invasions) conquer India and start the Mughal Empire
  • 1501 AD: Persia formed the Safavids Dynasty, but it is now Shi'a Islam (Central East / Afghanistan to Syria)

Time Period 16 (1500-1550s)

Europe

  • The Catholic church lets people pay a premium to escape sin
  • 1517 AD: Martin Luther said it's all a scam and wrote 95 reasons why in his book, and it started the protestant reformation

Eurasia, Africa

Levant and Africa

  • 1530 AD: Suleiman The Magnificent makes the Ottoman Empire big, and gets part of the holy land which was previously a part of the Seljuk Empire

Russia

  • 1556 AD: Ivan the Terrible makes Russia big

Time Period 17 (1500 - Present)

Europe, Asia, America, Australia and Africa

  • 1503 AD: Portugal decided to control the entire Indian Ocean and control all the spice trades
  • 1503-1521 AD: Spain realized America is not India, but they pillaged it and made it New Spain
  • England and France decided to copy them
  • 1600 AD: Dutch revolt, and all the hipsters moved to Amsterdam
  • Amsterdam also decided to pillage stuff
  • England, Amsterdam and France tried to get to India through North America
    • They couldn't find a way but they found Beavers, and Beaver skin was very marketable.
  • Dutch stole the spice trade
  • 1640 AD: All the Sugar was made in Brazil. Dutch stole it.
  • Spain, France, Dutch and England exploited the Caribbean and started slavery by importing people from Africa
  • Russia gets bigger
  • 1754: Britain and France tries to decide who gets to control Ohio (and all America)
  • This starts a 7 year war (Britain, Prussia, Portugal, etc.) vs (France, Austria, Spain, Russia, Swededn, etc.)
  • Britain wins over France, but is now broke, so they tax America
  • 1776 AD: American revolutionary war, and France helps them win and is now broke
  • 1788 AD: Britain has to send their prisoners to Australia, which they call New South Wales
  • 1794 AD: France was broke, but the Royal family was rich, so Robespierre announced the French Revolution guillotined King Louis XIV and Queen Marie Antoinette and others, and someone also guillotined him too
  • 1791 AD: Slaves of Haiti start a revolution and get their freedom, led by Toussaint L'ouverture?
  • 1799 AD: Napoleon became the First Consul of the French Republic
  • 1804-1814 AD: Napoleon rules French Empire, and tried to conquer Europe
    • He was banished to the Island Elba, but he returned in 1815
    • He was banished to St. Helena Island in the Atlantic Ocean
  • 1812 AD: Latin American wars of Independence (Mexico, Gran Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela)
  • Steam Engine is invented in Britain
  • Britain conquers India
  • Britain tries to get China to trade with them, and they refuse because they had everything
  • Britain tries to sell them Opium
  • 1839 AD: China bans it and dumps it in the Ocean
  • Opium Wars
    • Britain made China open up the 5 cities: Shanghai, Ninbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou and also give them the Hong Kong island
  • Britain and Russia try to stop each other from conquering Afghanistan
  • Sultan of Oman, Said bin Sultan lives in Zanzibar of Africa
  • 1857 AD: Revolt of 1857 and Britain starts the British Raj
  • Telegram is invented and many technologies begin
  • 1863 AD: American Civil war abolishes slavery and declares the emancipation proclamation
  • Then the Americans kick out the Mexicans to the south
  • 1884 AD: Europe rapes Africa (They got everywhere except Ethiopia)
  • Britain and France gets Southeast Asia (Burma, French Indochina, Malaya, Sarawak, Dutch East Indies, Philippines (Spain)) (They didn't get Thailand)
  • 1894: Japan conquers Korea from China following the footsteps of the west
    • 1899: Japan captures the Liaodong Peninsula, but Russians said they wanted to build a railroads there to get more water. So under military supervision, they build it.
    • 1902: Because Russia doesn't let Japan invade northwards, Japan forms an alliance with Britain, who are also scared of Russia.
    • 1904: Russo-Japanese War, but no one wins and they just stop
    • 1905: Japanese Empire makes a treaty with Korea making it a protectorate under Imperial Japan
    • 1907: Japanese Empire makes a treaty with Korea making it deprived of administrative affairs
    • 1910: Japanese Empire makes a treaty with Korea, formally annexing it
  • US captures Hawaii
  • Spain controls Cuba, so they blame the destruction of USS Maine on Spain and goes to war with them
    • 1898 Spanish American War
    • Now they have business with Philippines
  • US kicks Panama out of Panama and makes the Panama canal
  • 1908 AD: Britain found oil in the Middle East
  • Qing dynasty of China is tired of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Japan trying to conquer them so they dissolve and form the Republic of China, which is controlled by Yuan Shikai of the Qing Dynasty
INTERMEDIATE NOTE: Antisemitism and "Scientific" Racism
  • In the 1850s, French writer Joseph Arthur de Gobineau developed a theory of Aryan master race and Nordicism.
  • He was born in a French aristocratic family
  • His father was a military officer and a staunch royalist.
  • His mother was the daughter of a non-noble royal tax official
  • He feared that his mother may have black ancestors
  • He wrote a lot about his hatred for French Revolution
  • He loved the Middle Ages, and preferred chivalry and knighthood compared to the norm of his time.
  • Someone describes him as a *romantic*, "with chivalrous ideas and spirit, dreaming of what was most noble and most grand"
  • [I must emphasize that this could've been the problem]
  • ["Romantics" caring about "beauty", and religions seeking "purity" - while love, which is defined as caring for another, goes unseen]
  • He also worried his wife would have black ancestors due to slave owners taking slave mistresses.
  • He was opposed to slavery for this contamination of whites
  • His Novel "Ternove" was the first one with which he linked class with race
  • He wrote his theory of scientific racism in his book, "An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races" and wanted to be remembered as its author.
  • Aside from that, in his time he was known as a poet and a writer, writing about his adventures in Iran and Brazil
  • Hitler
  • 1914: World War I
    • Allied Powers (Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, US, etc.) vs Axis/Central Powers (Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, etc.)
    • It was said to the The Great War that would end all wars
    • Japan wanted to conquer a part of China and the south east islands, which where controlled by Germany
    • Germany had war declared on Britain, because Germany was trespassing their friend Belgium to get to France to attack them because they were Friends with Russia, who was ready to attack Austria because Austria was ready to attack Serbia because someone from Serbia shot the leader of Austria in his head. And Britain was friends with Japan.
    • They took over south east islands, and also helped Britain at Singapore, Malta and Cape Town
  • 1917: Russian Revolution
  • 1916-1918 Arab Revolt - The first ever "Arab nationalist" movement
    • Started in 1916 to establish a unified Arab state from Aleppo (Syria) to Aden (Yemen) (middle east area)
    • Britain promised to support them, and together they conquered the Ottoman Empire
    • Anatolia was retained by the Allied powers
    • British secretly signed the Sykes-Picot agreement with the French government
    • So they went back on their promise and divided the middle east into a number of League of Nations Mandates controlled by Britain and France
  • 1919: Paris Peace Conference and the establishment of League of Nations
    • The League of Nations was established to make sure that countries don't invade other countries
      • That's when all countries were fixed and decided
      • US didn't join it because Article X would require them to help other nations under war, which threatened their sovereignty.
    • The Allied powers had to decide what to do about the German colonies in Africa and the Pacific, and the Arabic-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
    • The Allied powers originally wanted to annex the captured lands of the Central powers, but instead, they decided to just supervise it until the inhabitants decide to achieve self-governance and independence.
    • So the League of Nations Mandates were also set up
      • The mandates were governed by the seven mandatory powers, except the Kingdom of Iraq, which joined the League of Nations in 1932
      • British Mandate for Palestine
        • Formed Mandatory Palestine
        • Britain mandated equal residence for Jews and Arabs in Palestine, as per the Balfour Declaration
        • The Balfour declaration was further confusing the issue with the Arabs
        • The Emirate of Transjordan was added to the mandate after Franco-Syrian War
      • In total, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan were League of Mandates
      • Japan got to keep all the land they took from Germany
  • 1919: Khilafat Movement
    • It was a movement by the Muslims in India, against Britain's plan for Turkey and abolishing of the Ottoman Caliphate
    • It was supported by Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    • It led to Malabar Kalapam in Kerala in 1921
      • It was a riot against British officers who forcibly converted and killed many Hindus, trying to stir up conflict between Hindus and Muslims
      • It was also against the elite Hindus landowners, who had absolute family ownership of the land under the jenmi system
  • 1919: Turkish War for Independence begins
  • 1922: Soviet Union forms with Communism
  • 1924: Tรผrkiye becomes independent
    • 6 Oct 1923: The capital, Constantinople was renamed to Istanbul
    • 29 Oct 1923: Ankara was declared the capital of the Turkish Republic
    • 3 March 1924: The last caliphate, the Sultanate of Ottoman Empire Caliphate was abolished by Mustafa Kemel Ataturk
  • ibn Saud and team formed Saudi Arabia
  • 1926: Germany was accepted into the League of Nations thinking they've become peaceful
  • Formation of Nationalist Socialist German Workers party
  • 1929: The Great Depression in the US
  • 1931: Japan invades Manchuria from China by making a false flag bombing incident at Mukden, and instead of removing their troops as voted by the members, they withdrew from the League of Nations
  • 1933: Hitler rose to power, and withdrew from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference
  • 1937: Japan has an empire, but they kept invading more of China, and they rape Nanking, but then they deny it
    • They were planning to invade the entire East, or the Greater East Co-Prosperity Sphere
  • Hitler makes friends with Japan and also Italy to take over the world
  • 1939: After the invasion of Poland and Finland by Soviet Union, they were expelled from the League of Nations
  • 1939: World War 2
    • Germany invades their neighbours - Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Denmark
    • Then they invaded France, the neighbours' neighbour and then they tried to invade Britain
    • Japan captured North Vietnam which was a French colony with the help of Germany
    • US Helped Britain, and stopped helping Japan because their friends are not friends of their friends, and also because they wanted to invade the entire East and Pacific
    • US did not want to focus on the war, caring about their image
    • 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbour, Hawaii
    • So US entered the war
    • So Allied Powers (Britain, France, US, China, etc.) vs Axis/Central Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, etc.)
    • They chased Germany back into Germany
    • They also chased Japan back into Japan
    • Holocaust
    • Death of Hitler
    • US tries to see if Atom bombs work by dropping one on Japan. They had one more so they dropped that too.
  • 1945: Japan is now controlled by US
    • US establishes USA Military Government in Japanese Korea
    • 38th Parallel Latitude was established as a boundary between Russian and US Occupied Korea
    • 1948: Japanese Korea is granted independence as The Republic of Korea (South Korea)
    • US establishes a new government in Japan inspired by their own government, where government closely cooperates with the industry
  • 1946: The League of Nations was abolished and the United Nations took its place
  • 1947: Independence in India, and formation of Pakistan and Bangladesh
    • Pakistan attacks Jammu and Kashmir
    • 1948 India-Pakistan War and establishment of Line of Control
  • Cold War (1947-1991)
    • Created the concept of Three Worlds
      • First World / Western Bloc / Capitalist Bloc
      • Second World / Eastern Bloc
      • Third World / Neutral Countries / Non Aligned Movement
  • 1947: UN Partition Plan for Palestine at the end of British mandate
    • Formation of Arabic and Jewish states
      • The plan was boycotted by the Arabs because 62% of the land was allocated to Jewish people, although Arabs had twice the population
  • 1948-Present: Arab-Israel Conflicts
    • Establishment of Israel with expulsion and massacre of Arabs ("Al Nakba" / "The Catastrophe")
      • The Zionists did so using guns from London
      • Overnight, many Palestinians became stateless as US and Russia recognized Israel
      • By 1949, more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled, and more than 13000 Arabs were killed during the ethnic cleansing. It was either to leave or be killed.
      • Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat was assigned as the mediator of the situation by the UN. He was assassinated by the Zionist group Lehi in 1948 while at Jerusalem.
      • Lehi's main aim was to remove British authorities and establish a Jewish state. It referred to it's members as terrorists.
    • 1948 War
      • HK of Transjordan annexed West Bank and was renamed to HK of Jordan
    • 1949: Israel was admitted to the UN, and it had accumulated 78% of historic Palestine, and the remaining 22% was Gaza and West Bank. Many Palestinians were refugees, waiting to return home.
    • 1967 War (Six Day War)
    • 1982 Lebanon War
    • 1993 Oslo Peace Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
    • Intifadas in 90s and in 00s by Hamas
    • Gaza War 2008
    • Gaza War 2014
    • 2023 Israel-Hamas War
  • 1949: Germany is divided into West Berlin / Federal Republic of Germany and East Berlin / German Democratic Republic
  • 1949: China becomes the People's Republic of China
    • Kuomintang national party disagreed, so they moved to an island named Taiwan and called in the Taiwan Republic of China
  • 1949: Geneva Conventions of 1949 to define humanitarian rules during war
  • 1950 Korean war, when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel north latitude
    • UN Security Council Resolution 82 asked them to retreat to north of 38th parallel north.
    • UN troops, mostly American, aid South Koreans
    • In 1953 Armistice Agreement, a new line was formed to separate North Korea and South Korea.
    • The Military Demarcation Line is surrounded by a demilitarized zone (DMZ)
  • 1961: Berlin Wall was constructed to prevent East Berlin citizens from moving to the "fascist West Berlin who conspires to prevent the will of the peopl"
  • 1969: Space Race
  • Vietnam War
    • Viet Minh declared Vietnamese Independence from Japan after World War II, but France still wanted to rule it
    • 1954: Treaty of Geneva decided that 17th parallel north should divide Vietnam until elections could be held
    • Elections were never held, North Vietnam was a communist state led by Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam was a capitalist republic led by Ngo Dinh Diem.
    • Viet Minh wanted to unite Vietnam into a communist state, and most South Vietnamese people also didn't like Ngo Dinh Diem
      • Diem was corrupted and didn't give lands to the peasants. He also hated Buddhism.
    • A war broke out between North and South Vietnam
    • From 1958, South Vietnam was attacked by the South Vietnamese communist group, National Liberation Front (NLF)
    • 1964: North Vietnam attacked a US patrolling ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam
    • There was also a questionable attack in Washington, but US took this as fact to escalate the war.
    • North Vietnam + China + USSR + communist allies vs South Vietnam + US + anti-communist allies
    • US joined the war because it was afraid of the spread of communism
    • US believed that if one country became communist, all neighbouring countries would become communist
      • That is, if South Vietnam fell to communism, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Laos, and Cambodia would too.
    • US dropped more than twice the amount of bombs used in the entirety of World War II
  • 1973: Paris Peace Accords ordering US to withdraw their troops from Vietnam
  • 1975: Communist North Vietnam gains control of South Vietnam
  • 1976: Socialist Republic of Vietnam forms
  • Other countries got independence, but there was neo-colonialism
  • Martin Luther King Jr. abolishes racism
    • 1963: March on Washington, and his delivery of the "I have a dream" speech
    • The civil rights movement achieved their goals in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968
    • He was assassinated in 1968 by a racist named James Earl Ray
  • South Africa's Apartheid regime
  • 1991: USSR split
  • 1999: EU forms to use the same money, but Britain doesn't use the same money
Left-click: follow link, Right-click: select node, Scroll: zoom
x