40 entries
All civilizations
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Early Bronze Age
Bronze Age
- Indus Valley Civilization Indus River Basin, South Asia 3,300 BCE – 1,300 BCE
- Minoan Civilization Crete, Aegean Sea 3,000 BCE – 1,100 BCE
- Old Babylonian Empire Mesopotamia 1,894 BCE – 1,595 BCE
- Mycenaean Greece Greek mainland and Aegean 1,600 BCE – 1,100 BCE
- Hittite Empire Anatolia 1,600 BCE – 1,178 BCE
- Shang Dynasty Yellow River Valley, East Asia 1,600 BCE – 1,046 BCE
- Egyptian New Kingdom Nile Valley and Levant 1,550 BCE – 1,077 BCE
- Olmec Civilization Gulf Coast, Mesoamerica 1,500 BCE – 400 BCE
Iron Age
- Vedic Civilization Northern Indian subcontinent 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
- Phoenician City-States Levantine coast 1,200 BCE – 539 BCE
- Kingdom of Kush Nubia, Northeast Africa 1,070 BCE – 350 CE
- Neo-Assyrian Empire Mesopotamia and the Near East 911 BCE – 609 BCE
- Etruscan Civilization Central Italy 900 BCE – 27 BCE
- Carthaginian Empire North African coast and western Mediterranean 814 BCE – 146 BCE
Classical Era
- Achaemenid Persian Empire Iranian Plateau to the Indus 550 BCE – 330 BCE
- Roman Republic Italian Peninsula, expanding to Mediterranean 509 BCE – 27 BCE
- Classical Athens Attica, Greece 508 BCE – 322 BCE
- Maurya Empire Indian subcontinent 322 BCE – 185 BCE
- Parthian Empire Iranian Plateau to Mesopotamia 247 BCE – 224 CE
- Qin Dynasty Yellow River to Yangtze, East Asia 221 BCE – 206 BCE
- Han Dynasty East Asia 206 BCE – 220 CE
- Nazca Culture Southern coast, Peru 100 BCE – 800 CE
- Teotihuacan Central Mexico 100 BCE – 550 CE
- Roman Empire Mediterranean basin and Western Europe 27 BCE – 476 CE
- Classic Maya Civilization Yucatán Peninsula and Central America 250 CE – 900 CE
Late Antiquity
Post-Classical Era
- Khmer Empire Southeast Asia 802 CE – 1431 CE
- Postclassic Maya (Chichén Itzá era) Northern Yucatán 900 CE – 1524 CE
- Chimú Kingdom Northern coastal Peru 900 CE – 1470 CE
- Kingdom of Zimbabwe Southern Africa 1220 CE – 1450 CE
- Aztec (Mexica) Empire Central Mexico 1428 CE – 1521 CE
- Inca Empire Andean South America 1438 CE – 1533 CE