Arts of Asia Timeline

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Dates	West Asia	India	China	Japan
9000 BCE	Pre-Historic	Pre-Indus	Pre-Dynastic	Pre-Historic Japan (12000-3000 BCE) Jomon Period
7000-4000 BCE	Ancient Near East (7000 BCE) Earliest Pottery		Neolithic (5000-2000B CE) Painted pottery cultures: Yangshao (c.3000 BCE), Longshan (NE) (c.2000 BCE), Liangzhu (NE) (c.2000 BCE), Hongshan (East Coast) (c.2000 BCE) (Mythical dynasty Xia)
7000-4000 BCE	Elam (7000-600 BCE)
3000 BCE	Sumer (3500-2340 BCE) Potter's wheel, Writing	Indus Valley Civilization (c.3000-1750 BCE)
2000 BCE	Akkad (2340-2180 BCE)
2000 BCE	Lagash (2150 BCE)			Yayoi (300 BCE-300 CE) Kofun (300 CE-552 CE)
1800 - 1000 BCE	Babylonia, Mari (1792-1750 BCE) Rule of Hammurabi
1800 - 1000 BCE	Hitite (1600-1200 BCE)	Vedic Period (c.1750-322 BCE) Buddha (c.563-483 BCE)
1000 - 300 BCE	Assyria (1000-612 BCE) Neo-Babylonia (612-539 BCE) Persia (551-331 BCE)
1000 - 300 BCE		Maurya (c.322-185 BCE)	Qin Dynasty (221-206 BCE) Han Dynasty (206 BCE ñ 220 CE): The Western Han (202 BCE-9 CE) Break (9-23 CE) The Eastern Han (Later Han) (23 CE ñ 220 CE)
100 BCE	West Asia (Timeline II)	Shunga/South India - Early Andhra (c.185 BCE-25 CE) Kushan/Later Andhra (Gandhara) (c.30-433 CE) Gupta (c.350-500 CE)
100 - 600 CE	Early Christian (100 BCE-600 CE), Imperial Christian (313-476 CE)
100 - 600 CE			Six Dynasties (265-587 CE) Sui (581-618 CE)	Asuka (552-646 CE)
700 CE	Early Byzantine (500-726 CE) End of Western Roman Empire (Emperor Justinian's rule 527-565 CE) Founding of Islam (610 CE) Early Caliphs (633-661 CE) Umayyad dynasty (661-750 CE)	Post Gupta (c.550-950 CE)	Tang (618ñ907 CE) Song (960-1279 CE) Northern Song (960-1127 CE) Southern Song (1127-1279 CE)	Nara (646-794 CE)
700 - 1200 CE	Iconoclastic Controversy (726-843 CE) Middle Byzantine (843-1204 CE) Russia becomes Christian (988 CE) Division of Christian Church into Catholic & Orthodox (1054 CE) Crusades Begin (1095 CE) Abbasid dynasty (750-1258 CE) Spanish Ummayad dynasty (756-1031 CE) Seljuk dynasty (1037-1194 CE)	Post Gupta (c.550-950 CE)		Nara (646-794 CE)
700 - 1200 CE		Early Medival (950-1250 CE)	China after 1280 CE	Heian (794-1185 CE)
1200 - 1500 CE	Western rule of Constantinople (1204-1261 CE) Late Byzantine (1261-1600 CE) Fall of Constantinople to Turks (1453 CE) Spanish Nasrid dynasty (1232-1492 CE) Egyptian Mamluk dynasty (1252-1517 CE) Turkic Timurid Dynasty (1370-1507 CE) Ottoman Empire (1290 CE)	India after 1200 CE	Yuan (Mongol rule) (1271-1368 CE)	Kamakura (1185-1392 CE)
1200 - 1500 CE		Fall of Pala dynasty (1199 CE) Late Medieval Period (1200-1600 CE) Turkic dynasties rule parts of Northern India (1206 CE) Vijayanagar dynasty (1350-1565 CE) Babur Mughal rule (1526 CE)	Ming Dynasty (1369-1644 CE) Qing (1644-1911 CE)	Japan after 1392 Muromachi / Ashikaga (1392-1568 CE)
1500 - 1800 CE	Ottoman Empire (1290-1918 CE)	British Sovereignity fully established (1757 CE) Unified Mughal Empire in India (1858 CE)		Momoyama (1568-1603 CE) Edo or Tokugawa (1603-1868 CE)
1800 - 1900 CE	Ottoman Empire (1290-1918 CE)	End of Mughal Empire (1858 CE)
1900 - 2000 CE	Modern Turkey founded (1918 CE)	Independence movement (Gandhi) (1914-1947 CE) India becomes independent nation (1947 CE) Partitioning of India & Pakistan	Modern period (1911-present CE) Republic of China (1911-1949 CE) People's Republic of China (1949 CE-present)	Meiji/Modern (1868 CE-present) Meiji (1868-1912 CE) Taisho (1912-1926 CE) Showa (1926 CE-WWII) Post War era (1945 CE-present)