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1. Pottery was in use by around 5500 BCE.

2. BCE : India - The Aryan Hindus occupy Ceylon.

3. Agriculture was first adopted around the 9th millennium BCE. Ranging from food production to energy, nature influences economic wealth.

4. In 539 BCE, the armies of the Persian king Cyrus (a member of the Achaemenid family) marched upon Babylon and captured the city and with it all the Neo- Babylonian Empire.

5. At the end of the nineteenth century BCE an ambitious solder called Shamshi- Adad brought Ashur under his control.

6. BCE : India - The Mahabharata, of which The Bhagavad Gita is a part,(sentencedict.com) is put into final form.

7. BCE : India - The Maurya dynasty ends when the last ruler is assassinated by an ambitious army commander.

8. BCE : India - Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, is born. He will die around 486.

9. BCE stands for "before common era, " and is equivalent to B.C., or before Christ.

10. These structures date from about 10,000 BCE. Shown here is a layout of an upper paleolithic hut, a form often repeated in its general characteristics.

11. BCE : India - Cultural exchange between the Indus Valley civilization and MESOPOTAMIA ( present day Iraq ) is especially prominent.

12. In 614 BCE a Median army under Cyaxares invaded the Assyrian homeland, attacked Nineveh and destroyed the ancient city of Ashur .

13. However, based on the mention of Herod the Great in the gospel of Matthew, more-recent estimates place Jesus' birth as early as 8 BC/BCE, and as late as 4 BC/BCE.

14. BCE : India - The Brahmans, a priestly caste, begin to emerge.

15. BCE : India - Cyrus the Persian campaigns west of the Indus River.

16. BCE : India - The Aryans invade the Indus Valley region.

17. BCE: India - Between these dates, the Early Vedic period of Indian civilization unfolds.

18. Its most famous work is the Daodejing, attributed to a person known as Laozi, who may have existed in the 6th century BCE.

19. A section of scholars claim that this was a major river during the third and fourth millennia BCE, and propose that it may have been the Sarasvati River of the Rig Veda.

20. And by this time Mark Antony had palled up with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Octavian beat both of them, and he became the sole ruler of the empire in 27 BCE.

21. It was probably begun by the emperor Asoka in the mid-3rd century BCE and later enlarged.

22. The Epic of Gilgamesh: As with other ancient texts, historians and literary critics cannot pinpoint the exact date when The Epic of Gilgamesh was written, though it was likely around 2000 BCE.

23. Upper paleolithic Huts from Mezin, Ukraine. These huts date to about 10, 000 BCE.

24. At an unknown moment, its inhabitants were subjected by the Medes, who ruled the first Iranian empire until they were subdued by the Persian leader Cyrus the Great in 550 BCE.

25. The mod follows the time span in terms of equipment of roughly 400 BCE to 1400 CE Equipment ranges to Greek and Roman items up till early firearms and plate armor.

26. According to the age of the grave , archaeologists determined that these slips to 278 BCE.

27. Subsequent to the military campaign of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE, Mithra became the "favorite deity" of Asia Minor. Christian writers Dr. Samuel Jackson and George W.

28. Upper Paleolithic huts from Buret, Siberia. These structures date from about 10, 000 BCE.

29. The earliest evidence of a man-made habitat dates to about 2,000,000 BCE and comes from Olduvai Gorge in Central Africa.

30. Herod the Great was appointed king by the Roman Senate and he ruled from the year 37 to year 4 BCE.