World History Timeline

EY - Empirical Years (how I count years, but no culture does this way)

0 EY / 10,000 BC Jericho & the beginning of religions & civilizations. Use the stars to navigate, predict seasons, etc. First dude to build a temple to a god - also uses it as a landmarker. People don't really live there all year long, just kind of a stopping point. (Stone Age)

6,000 EY / 4,000 BC Uruk & the use of religion for power and control. Leader of a tribe has a vision from their god to build a big temple and that these lands are a gift from the god.(Bronze Age) 209 BC BC “PROPHET” “Came to the realization” that there is only 1 god. There was a king who worships the sun moon and stars, having yet really subscribed to personifying them. Leaves the city, goes back to nomadic lifestyle with household. Man vs Nature☃☃Book : The story behind why they settle in one l)

7,900 EY /  2,100 BC PROPHET” “Came to the realization” that there is only 1 god. There was a king who worships the sun moon and stars, having yet really subscribed to personifying them. Leaves the city, goes back to nomadic lifestyle with household. Man vs Nature 1800 BC The story behind why they settle in one location.

8,500  EY / 1,500 BC Conflict and persecution in the lands they had settled in. Have to leave again. ''   1400 BC Foundation of their new city. A set of rules are established by a political religious leader. They’re mean as like court documents - “thou shalt not murder” vs “thou shalt not kill.”    

9,000 EY / 1,000 BC First king of is appointed '740 BC -' Captivity and persecution, again

9,400 EY / 600 BC: New emperor with more liberal mindset- encourage religious tolerance. End of religious captivity. '300 BC: Alexander the Great - Cultural diffusion & the Mass Marriage

9,970 EY / 30 BC The founding of Christianity (dude running around the desert). It started with the inclusion of Gentiles - non Jews! Judaism for everyone! That developed its own martyrdom religion. The killer of Jesus was a jew - that's how you turn christians against Jews '10 BC: The persecution of christians begins

10,380 EY / 380 AD: Roman Empire adopting Catholicism, officially ending persecution

10,476 EY / 476 AD:  Fall of Rome

10,600 EY / 600 AD: and Islam? 

11,095 – 11,492 EY / 1095 – 1492 AD: The Crusades

11,600 EY / 1600 AD:  Colonialism? - shift from war over religion to war over land (which was also religious 

-How countries we consider "third world" were quite advanced, until Europeans conquered and oppressed them for centuries.