The Hegira was a fresh start for the Muslim community in Medina. The members of this new movement left the city of Mecca behind, but the migration meant they would need to start all over again. Their wealth and affluence were gone (for the rich ones, at least), but they were now stripped of their […]
Between the years 1945 and 1952, a Mexican archaeologist named Alberto Ruz Lhuillier worked on a series of excavations in the ancient Maya city of Palenque. In 1948, he came across a stone that he thought led to another chamber inside the Temple of the Inscriptions. He decided to pull the stone slab out of […]
The Hopewell Culture, centred in the southern region of Ohio, was in its dying stages in 500 AD. The vacuum the Hopewell left was filled with and continued by the Mississippian Culture. This is recorded on the Biblical Timeline Chart with World history around the late 5th century. Trade networks developed between 200 AD and […]
The Western Roman Empire had disintegrated by the time of the rise of its last emperor, Romulus Augustulus, who was the son of Orestes, a Roman general of Pannonian descent, and the daughter of a Count Romulus of Petovio. His father first served Attila the Hun as a secretary and later, as his an ambassador […]
The Hopewell Culture that flourished in parts of the American Midwest rose around 200 AD, but by 400 AD, most of the long-distance trade and interaction of the Hopewell people had ceased (it was not clear what they called themselves). This period of decline lasted from 400 to 500 AD according to the Biblical Timeline […]
The city of Tikal in modern-day Guatemala started as a small farming village around 600 BC and gradually grew into a Maya megacity by the first century AD. It competed with the Maya city of El Mirador for domination until the latter’s decline and Tikal filled the vacuum of power left by its neighboring city. […]
Year of the Four Emperors The death of the tyrant Nero signaled the end of the domination of the Julian dynasty over the Roman world. This led to the Flavian Dynasty starting around 69 AD according to the Biblical Timeline Chart with World History. As the rule of one dynasty ended, competition rose among Roman […]
Before the Han Dynasty Qin Shi Huang was ancient China’s self-proclaimed First Emperor. Although the Han Dynasty, which came later, was China’s first dynasty to rule as a unified country. According to the Biblical Timeline Chart with World History, the Han Dynasty lasted between 202 BC and 220 AD. [This article continues after a message from the […]
John Hyrcanus lived during one of the most tumultuous periods of Jewish history when Judea was under the rule of the Seleucid dynasty. According to the Biblical Timeline Chart with World History, this was around 105 BC. He was one of the various rebel leaders in his family, starting with his grandfather Mattathias Maccabeus, who […]
The Olmec civilization was one of the oldest (if not the oldest) civilizations that rose in Mesoamerica. The Olmec people’s enduring legacy was their colossal head statues, detailed rock carvings, and writing system. The cities of San Lorenzo, La Venta, and Tres Zapotes near the Gulf of Mexico served as their major urban centers. These […]