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Tentative historical timeline and relevant populations/dynasties

• Prehistory (unrecorded, oral history)
• Pre-Antiquity, Recorded History --- 4000 BC - 776 BC
  • Xia and Shang dynasties --- 2100 BC - 1046 BC
  • Aegean civilizations of Greece --- 3650 BC - 1100 BC
  • Mycenaean Greece 1900 BC - 1100 BC
  • Archaic Greece 800 BC - 323 BC
  • Ancient Egypt 3100 BC - 305 BC
• Early, Middle Antiquity --- 776 BC - 27 BC
  • Zhou dynasty --- 1046 BC - 256 BC
  • Ancient Greece --- 323 BC - 146 BC
  • Roman Republic --- 509 BC - 27BC
  • Ptolemaic Egypt --- 305 BC - 30 BC
  • See Historians of the Ancient Period (Wikipedia)
• Late Antiquity, Roman Empire --- 27 BC - 476 AD
  • (Note: first monastic sources, around 360 AD, Martin de Tours)
• Middle Ages --- 476 AD - 1500 AD
  • See Medieval Historians/Chroniclers (Wikipedia)
  • Early Middle Ages --- 476 AD - 1000 AD
    • Merovingians, Franks, Carolingians --- 481 AD - 843 AD
    • Byzantine Empire --- 396 AD - 1025 AD
    • Visigoths --- 376 AD - 711 AD
    • Langobards

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      568 AD - 1017 AD
    • Ostrogoths --- 388 AD - 562 AD
    • Umayyads, Almoravids, Almohads --- 718 AD - 1085 AD
    • Fifths and Kingships of Ireland --- 400 AD - 1014 AD
    • Celts, Picts, Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Heptarchy... --- 410 AD - 1066 AD
    • Vikings --- 793 AD - 1066 AD
    • Bulgars --- 681 AD - 1018 AD
    • Khazars --- 618 AD - 1048 AD
  • High Middle Ages --- 1000 AD - 1347 AD
    • Capetians --- 987 AD - 1328 AD
    • Holy Roman Empire --- (Salians, Hohenstauffen...) 962 AD - 1356 AD
    • Byzantine Empire --- (Komnenians, Laskarids...) 1025 AD - 1341 AD
    • Iberian Kingdoms --- 1085 AD - 1248 AD
    • Almohads --- 1085 AD - 1248 AD
    • Kingships and Lordships of Ireland --- 1014 AD - 1300 AD
    • Normans --- 1066 AD - 1154 AD
    • Kingdoms of Scandinavia --- 1066 AD - 1397 AD
    • Bulgars --- 1185 AD - 1396
    • Kievan Rus --- 882 AD - 1237 AD
    • Hurin Sapa Incas --- c1100 AD - c1350 AD
  • Late Middle Ages --- 1347 AD - 1500 AD
    • Valois --- 1328 AD - 1498 AD
    • Byzantine/Ottoman Empire (Serbians, Ottomans...) --- 1299 AD - 1453 AD
    • Holy Roman Empire --- (Luxemburg, Habsburg, Wittelsbach...) 1356 AD - 1516 AD
    • Iberian Kingdoms --- 1248 AD - 1492 AD
    • Granada Emirate --- 1248 AD - 1492 AD
    • Lordships of Ireland --- 1300 AD - 1536 AD
    • Plantagenets --- 1154 AD - 1485 AD
    • Kalmar Union --- 1397 AD - 1523 AD
    • Jagiellons --- 1377 AD - 1572 AD
    • Hanan Sapa Incas --- c1350 AD - 1533 AD