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Math History Timeline

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Pre-historic and Ancient Times
1,000,000 B.C. - 500 A.D.
Non-mathematical history

	1,000,000 to 35,000B.C.	Hominids
	35,000 to 10,000B.C.	Paleolithic Period
	8,000 to 6,500B.C.	Neolithic
Phil/Rel	3761 B.C.	Jewish Calendar (2000 AD = 5761)
	3500-550 BC	Mesopotamia and Egypt
	2900-430 BC	Greece
	1950 BC-AD 70	Ancient Israel
Ruler	1792 B.C.–1750 B.C.	Hammurabi
Phil/Rel	c.1500 B.C.	Hinduism
Ruler	1372 B.C.–1350 B.C.	Nefertiti
Ruler	c.1350 B.C	Tutankhamen
Ruler	1314 B.C.-1090 B.C.	Ramses I - XI
	753 BC-AD 1453	Rome
Literature	before 700 B.C.	Homer
Phil/Rel	c.628 B.C.–c.551 B.C.	Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism
Ruler	d. 562 B.C.	Nebuchadnezzar
	559-465 BC	Persia
Phil/Rel	c.551 B.C.–479? B.C.	Confucius
Literature	6th cent. B.C.	Aesop
Literature	525 B.C.–456 B.C	Aeschylus
Phil/Rel	c.525 B.C.	Buddhism, founded in India by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha
Literature	496 B.C.–406 B.C	Sophocles
Literature	485 B.C.–406 B.C.	Euripides
Literature	448 B.C.–c.388 B.C.	Aristophanes
Ruler	356 B.C.–323 B.C.	Alexander the Great
Ruler	308 B.C.–30 B.C	Ptolemy II - XIV
Ruler	d. 284 B.C.	Ptolemy I
Ruler	247 B.C.-182 B.C.	Hannibal
Ruler	106 B.C.–43 B.C	Cicero
Ruler	100? B.C.–44 B.C	Caesar, Julius
Ruler	83 B.C.–30 B.C	Marc Antony
Literature	70 B.C.–19 B.C.	Virgil
Ruler	69 B.C.–30 B.C.	Cleopatra
Ruler	63 B.C.–A.D. 14	Augustus
Literature	43 B.C.–A.D. 18	Ovid
Ruler	42 B.C.–A.D. 37	Tiberius
Ruler	d. 4 B.C	Herod the Great
Ruler	12–41	Caligula
Ruler	37–68	Nero
Ruler	76–138	Hadrian
Ruler	121–180	Marcus Aurelius
Phil/Rel	354–430	Saint Augustine, one of the founders of Western theology

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