Timeline of World History | Major Time Periods & Ages

Lots of comments about my placement of Egypt, so let me respond: Geographically, Egypt is in Africa. However, from a cultural and genetic perspective, it is also very much a part of the Middle East. Although it had interactions with other parts of Africa throughout history, it also had lots of interactions with the Levant, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia. Therefore, for reasons of design and in order to more easily show several key interactions that occurred in ancient times, I placed Egypt next to the Middle Eastern civilizations rather than the Sub Saharan civilizations. In the video, I mistakenly summarized the horizontal sections as the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia & the Pacific but it would have been more accurate to describe them as the Americas, Sub Saharan Africa, Europe, the MIDDLE EAST, Asia & the Pacific. In other words, I did not mean to insinuate that Egypt is a part of Europe! Finally and most importantly, please note that there are no geographical labels on the poster itself. While civilizations are generally shown from West to East, this is a history poster, not a geography poster, so it's not exact.

It is 3300+2 years ago

New time in history is recorded in
Revelation 21: 1-5
A promise from Almighty God.

The Bible has much information on our near future. And how very close we are for a renewed earth. World Govs aren't able to mix it.

I am very confused. The Chart says the Sahara and the 4.2 kiloyear event were caused by the climate.
But people werent driving Cars back then? The Media and Twitter told me thats the sole reason for climate change.

Amazing!

Göbekli Tepe

Nice work, really appreciate the time and effort.

interesting they changed BC and AD because of religion yet isnt the whole thing acknowledging it? so what the real reason

Thank you for using Before Christ

As Pakistan we feel proud to be most civilized nation in the beginning of human history

The pyramids are much, much older than 2600 BCE and the technologies used to erect them were way more advanced than the Egyptian’s tools and technologies of that time. Many, including me, also believe the pyramids were used as geomagnetic power plant. Happy rabbit hole digging.

tysm teach

humans have been around for 200,000 years but no one discovered writing until 3,300 B.C.? Give me a break. Cool timeline though I like your charts.

This chart is amazing.

You didn’t say anything about the rise of Islam!

This makes me wonder why I’d be willing to die for my country, considering everything changes no matter what and history mostly forgotten.

Thanks a lot..i was looking for one view for history 👍👍

Gathering, arranging and stitching the history of the world together has been a Christian endevour, it should be BC/AD.

dude, i stoped watching the video since you may need some throat cleaning for it, it really annoyed me, though the content seems somewhat interesting. im sorry

Where on this chart would be Sargon and the XIA dynasty? Would those be too early?

Nice job, a lot of work so it seems. I enjoyed it. However I don't agree with your narration on time and the labeling BC/AD & BCE/CE … Just looking at TIME or better put the CALENDAR. You say this got changed to create a more neutral term – since 75% of the globe/world is NOT Christian.
This explanation is BS in my opinion.
1. 2023 (AD/CE Gregorian calendar) in other calendars: Armenian calendar 1472, Assyrian calendar 6773, Bengali calendar 1430, Berber calendar 2973, BUDDHIST calendar 2567, Burmese calendar 1385, Byzantine calendar 7531-7532, Chinese calendar has two options 4719-4720 or 4659-4660, Discordian calendar 3189, HEBREW calendar 5783-5784, HINDU calendars has 3 different ones, but I guess my point is made – this has nothing to do with globe or world or Christianity to change it – the basis is still the same, just a new name… but why?
2. The alternative form BCE and CE begin in 1715 also interchangeable with "Vulgar era" which began being used (as found in written history, 1615)
Also BC and AD came in popular use in the 9th century with the Holy Roman Empire after Emperor Charlemagne adopted the system for dating acts of government throughout Europe. By the 15th century, all of Western Europe had adopted the B.C./A.D. system. The system's inclusion was implicit in the 16th-century introduction of the Gregorian calendar. All this is tied to Christianity.
3. 1715 European historians traditionally date the beginning of the Enlightenment with the death of Louis XIV of France in 1715 and its end with the 1789 outbreak of the French Revolution. (1637 is the earliest other date for the beginning of the enlightenment. And it never fully ended but transitioned and relabeled.) The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
4. Common era & the commonwealth are linked. There are currently 15 Commonwealth realms scattered across three continents. Commonwealth Age (in English literature): Also known as the Puritan Interregnum (literally, “between reigns”), an age often classified as the last of five literary eras within the Renaissance Period in English literature.
Dates linked to beginning (and ending, lol – still seems very present.) are 1649 [beheading King Charles I] – 1660 [Begin of reign King Charles II]
The Commonwealth was the political structure during the period from 1649 to 1660 when England and Wales, later along with Ireland and Scotland, were governed as a republic after the end of the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I. The Commonwealth Age began with the beheading of King Charles I in 1649 and ended with the restoration of the Stuart monarchy via the coronation of Charles II in 1660.
Commonwealth, also called Commonwealth of Nations, formerly (1931–49) British Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of sovereign states comprising the United Kingdom and a number of its former dependencies who have chosen to maintain ties of friendship and practical cooperation and who acknowledge the British monarch as symbolic head of their association.
5. TIME & TIME ZONES – Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a particular time unless a context is given. The term 'GMT' is also used as one of the names for the time zone UTC+00:00 and, in UK law, is the basis for civil time in the United Kingdom. All this was during the reign of the British Empire.

That is why it is common era!
To trick the commoners by the elites and not to question the socio economic statuses in culture, and if this was humane, or not. Its their time/era. But they didn't name it – they didn't hold that power!

Brilliant visualization of widespread data points. Let’s try and keep our perspective flexible. There are a growing plethora of anomalous data points that necessitate modification. The fact that we don’t have written history prior to the classical period does not suggest that those records may well be only be undiscovered. I’d beware of issues such as “intercontinental” communication, the Younger Dryas, and haploid grouping of DNA. We have a bias to grouping events geographically and as necessarily cause and effect. Those oceans and their currents may well have been pathways, not barriers

this needs update after gobeklitepe discovery

Why he is literally skipped talking about early indus valley civilization. The Harrapan and Mohenjodaro ruins archeology shows they were far advanced or at par with egypt and iran civilzation. I also noticed the channel is named world history and they have no video on Indian and its vast history