What does A.D. mean?
What does A.D. mean? Timeline showing BC and AD dates The meaning of A.D. and B.C. A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for "year of our Lord," and it means [...]
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Late Middle Ages timeline 1100-1500 AD
The Mongol court (1200s AD) - Late Middle Ages timeline The Little Ice Age After the warming trend of 1000 AD came a colder period around 1300 AD called the Little Ice Age. [...]
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High Middle Ages – 800 AD to 1100 AD
Lewis chessmen, carved in walrus ivory in the 1100s AD, probably in Norway, and found in Scotland About 1000 AD, the world's climate got a few degrees warmer. This small climate change caused [...]
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World history timeline: from Jesus to 400 AD
Roman amphitheater (El Jem, Tunisia) The great empires formed during the last years before Christ continued peacefully through much of this period. In India, the Mauryan Empire collapsed. There was a period of [...]
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Iron Age timeline – 1000 to 500 BC
Iron Age timeline: Zhou Dynasty swimmers (Sichuan bronze vessel, ca. 750 BC) How did the Iron Age begin? All across Asia, the early Iron Age started out as a time of many [...]
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Bronze Age timeline: 4000-2000 BC
A Bronze Age clay pot with a drawing of a wheeled cart from what is now Poland, about 3500 BC Cities, kings and empires Around 4000 BC, there were enough people [...]
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Before 10,000 BC – World history timeline
Sibidu Cave, South Africa. People lived here from about 77,000 BC until about 38,000 years ago. In the early years of human history, beginning with the earliest humans about two million years [...]
