Ancient Egypt timeline

3500 B.C.: First settlers in the Nile Valley

3500-3100 BC: Pre-Dynastic Egypt

3100-2700 B.C.: Early Dynastic Period

2700-2200 B.C.: Old Kingdom

2600s B.C.: First Pyramid

2500s B.C.: Pyramids at Giza built

2050-1650 B.C.: Middle Kingdon

-Temple of Karnak built

-Nubia conquered

1650: B.C.: Hykos Invasion

1650-1550 B.C.: Hykos rule

1550-1050 B.C.: New Kingdom

-Ramses II and Kadesh

-Exodus?

-Akhenaten

-Hatshepsut

- King Tut

1050-728 B.C.: Egypt split

728 B.C.: Piy conquers Egypt

525 B.C.: Persian conquers Egypt

332 B.C.: Alexander conquers Egypt

305 B.C.: Ptolemy becomes Pharoah

31 B.C.: Battle of Actium

30 B.C.: Cleopatra commits suicide

4th century A.D.: Last hieroglyphs written

400-642: Byzantine rule

642: Muslims conquer Egypt

Western Civilization timeline (1,000,000 B.C.-the present)

1,000,000-35,000 BC: Ancient Hominids evolve into modern man

35,000-10,000 BC: Paleolitic Age

10,000-6,500 BC: Neolitic Age

6,500-3,500 BC: Rise of Agriculture

3,500 BC: Civilizations appear in Mesopotamia and Egypt

559-323 BC: Persian Empire

499-449 BC: Persian Wars

499-336 BC: Rise of Greek Power

336-323 BC: Alexander the Great conquers the known world

323-146 BC: Hellenistic Greece

146 BC- 476 AD: Age of Rome

476-1000: The Dark Ages

1000-1300: High Middle Ages

1300-1500: Late Middle Ages

1500-1800: Renaissance, Reformation, and Empire

1689-1815: Age of Enlightenment

1815-1945: European Empires rule the world

1945-present: The American Age

Persian Empire timeline

3000 B.C.: Elamite Kingdom emerges
550 B.C.: Cyrus the Great founds Persian Empire
539 B.C.: Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon and releases the Jews from captivity
525 B.C.: Persia conquers Egypt
522 B.C.: Darius becomes king
490-449 B.C.: Persian Wars with Greece
334 B.C.: Alexander the Great conquers Persian Empire
323 B.C. Alexander dies in Babylon; his empire split and the Seleucid Empire forms
247 B.C.: The Parthians overthrow the Seleucids
224 A.D.: Sassanid Dynasty overthrows the Parthians
260: Shapur I captures Roman Emperor Valerian
642: Muslims conquer Persia

Star Trek Timeline: From the Big Bang to the Romans

16 billion years ago: The Big Bang (Some members of the Q hide out here)

5 billion years ago: Sol System forms

4.5 billion years ago: An ancient group of aliens seed the galaxy’s oceans with DNA codes leading to many humanoid races.

3.5 billion years ago: The first amino acids combine on Earth (Picard and Q visit)

1 billion years ago: The Slaver Empire rules the galaxy. All sentient species died in a war which led intelligent life to re-evolve.

65 million years ago: Dinosaurs wiped out. Some survived, evolved into the Voth, leave Earth, and end up in the Delta Quadrant.

600,000 years ago: Tkon Empire collapses

500,000 years ago: Sargon’s people become extinct

22,000 years ago: The Trill begin as a joined species

18,000 years ago: Orion slavery well established by this point.

10,000 years ago: Vaal is built

10,000 years ago: First orbs appear at Bajor

10,000 years ago: Founders found the Dominion

10,000 years ago: The First Grand Nagus writes the Fergengi Rules of Acquisition

4527 B.C.: The Borg come into being after survivors from the NX-02 Columbia are flung back in time and are absorbed by a malevolent Caeliar named Sedin.

4000 B.C.: Advanced aliens kidnap people from Earth and eugenically bred them to help humanity save itself later on. Gary Seven is a product of this program.

3834 B.C.: Flint is born

3733 B.C.: Landru preaches peace and love and creates a computer to help guide his people. It creates an oppressive society on Beta III.

2700 B.C.: Aliens visit Earth and become the Greek gods

2700 B.C.: Spock and McCoy temporarily stranded on Sarpeidon during an ice age.

2500 B.C.: Pyramids built in Egypt

850 B.C. P’Jem Built

800 B.C.: Homer

500 B.C.: Trakor writes prophesies about Bajor’s Prophets

400 B.C.: Sahndara System supernovas. The refugees revere Greek philosophers after apparently encountering them. They move to Platonius and form a civilization based on the Greeks.

323 B.C.: Alexander the Great dies

31 B.C.: Augustus wins at Actium and later forms the Roman Empire

History Shorts: 5000-1250 B.C.

The Ten Commandments:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/10/history-shorts-ten-commandments-1250-bc.html

Atlantis:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/10/history-shorts-atlantis-1600-bc.html

The Code of Hammurabi

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/09/history-shorts-code-of-hammurabi-1790.html

The Domestication of the Horse:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/09/history-shorts-domestication-of-horse.html

The Birth of China:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-shorts-birth-of-chinese.html

The Pyramids:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-shorts-pyramids-2600-bc.html

Story Telling:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/07/history-shorts-story-telling-and.html

Mesopotamia:

http://cicero390.blogspot.com/2010/06/history-shorts-mesopotamia.html

History Shorts: The Sea Peoples and the Borg (1200-1150 B.C.)

Bronze Age civilizations collapsed one after another beginning around 1200 B.C. The Mycenaeans, Hittites, Syrians, Canaanites, and others fell swiftly before an unstoppable invasion force. They are known today as the Sea Peoples because they invaded by sea. This force seems to have been multiethnic and apparently incorporated conquered people into its military. The Sea People confederation defeated wealthier militaries with sheer numbers and adaptable tactics. They even conquered mighty chariot armies by killing or maiming the horses and swarming the charioteers. The Sea Peoples were finally defeated on the water by the Egyptians. Egypt learned from the misfortune of others and decided to confront the invaders at sea as opposed to on land.  After their defeat, much of the world entered into a dark age. This allowed new peoples to populate the old settlements and create new civilizations.

The closest thing to the Sea Peoples in pop culture appear in Star Trek. The Borg were also an unstoppable invasion force which assimilated conquered peoples into their "collective."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHdp3idfpFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbEi1isW3kQ&feature=related

History Shorts: The Ten Commandments (1250 BC)

Like the Code of Hammurabi, the Ten Commandments help form the basis of western law. The Ten Commandments are wrapped in the Biblical story of Exodus. Scholars and the faithful have debated the Exodus and whether or not it happened, but there does seem to be some evidence to support the event. Despite this, we do not have a clear date for Exodus or the Ten Commandments. It seems to have occurred somewhere between 1550 B.C. and 1250 B.C.

The commandments and Exodus have provided pop culture with material for centuries.

Here are some modern examples:

Mel Brooks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAtRCJIqnk

Yul Brynner:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqowzbnKLqs&feature=related

Parting the Red Sea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vxnApK4O48&feature=related

History Shorts: The Pyramids (2600 B.C.)

Continuing a pop culture look at history making moments...here is a look at the the building of the pyramids.

Traditionally, scholars believed slaves built the pyramids. Recent discoveries demonstrate that free workers may have actually done the work. There are almost 140 known pyramids with the biggest being the Pyramid of Khufu. Egyptian leaders began building the structures around 2600 B.C.

The most famous look at Pyramid building occured in The Ten Commandments. However, that does not seem to be readily available.

This is an animated look at Egyptian monument building:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qj6pX15-rs&feature=related

Here is the lego version of pyramid building...sounds like a group of Jawas working to the music of the Beastie Boys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWDho_9Bn0&feature=related