Early Republican Roman 509 – 280 BC
Mid-Republican Roman 280 – 105 BC
Dominate Roman 284 – 425
Foederate 425 – 493 Early B. 493 – 550 Maurikian Byzantine 550 – 650
Thematic Byzantine 650 – 963
Nikephorian Byzantine 963 – 1071
Komnenan Byzantine 1071 – 1204
P. Latin 1204 – 61
1500 AD
1400 AD
1300 AD
1200 AD
1100 AD
1000 AD
900 AD
800 AD
700 AD
600 AD
500 AD
400 AD
300 AD
Principate Roman 25 BC – 284 AD
Late-Republ. 105 – 25 BC
Etruscan League 700 – 280 BC
200 AD
100 AD
1 AD
100 BC
200 BC
300 BC
10) Oath of Fealty
400 BC
5) Legions Triumphant
500 BC
9) Swifter than Eagles
600 BC
4) Swords and Scimitars
Armies in
11) Lost Scrolls
700 BC
8) Wolves from the Sea
800 BC
3) Immortal Fire
900 BC
7) Decline and Fall
1000 BC
6) Eternal Empire
2) Storm of Arrows
2000 BC
≤ 3000 BC
1) Rise of Rome
Late Byzantine 1261 – 1461
Latin Greece 1204 – 1311
Spartacus 73 – 71 BC
Italian Hill Tribes 700 – 290 BC Latin 509 – 338 BC Samnite 355 – 272 BC
Early Scots-Irish 55 BC – 475 AD
Campanian 425 – 211 BC
Early Scots Isles and Highlands 1050 – 1300
Later Scots-Irish 475 – 875
Caledonian 50 – 225
Early Pictish 225 – 500
Later Pictish 500 – 848
Apulian, Lucanian or Bruttian 500 – 203 BC
Feudal Scots 1052 – 1300
Early Scots 848 –1052
Later Medieval Scots (Continental) 1418 – 29
Early Welsh 375 – 1100 Post-Roman British 367 – 600
Medieval Welsh 1400 – 09
Later Welsh 1100 – 1283
Anglo-Danish 1016 – 71 Anglo-Norm. 1072 – 1154 Early Plantagenet Engl.1154 – 1272 100 Years’ War English 1320 – 1455 Middle Plantagenet English 1272 – 1320 Italo-Norman 1041 – 1154 Later Sicilian 1154 – 1282
Middle Anglo-Saxon 600 – 1016
Iberian 250 BC – 1 AD Gallic 300 – 50 BC
Post-Viking Scandinavian 1150 – 1300
Galatian 280 – 25 BC Early Libyan 3000 – 550 BC
Later Medieval Scots (Britain) 1300 – 1500
Breton Allies 575 – 931 Ancient British 55 BC – 100 AD
Early Carthaginian 550 – 275 BC
Later Scots Isles and Highlands 1300 – 1493
Later Visigothic 419 – 718
Early German 125 BC – 260 BC
Norse-Irish 875 – 1167 Early Medieval French 888 – 1050
Early Frankish, Alamanni, Burgundi, Limigantes, Quandi, Rugii, Suebi or Turcilingi 260 – 585
Dacian or Carpi 100 BC – 106 AD
Merovingian Frankish 496 – 751
Nubian 3000 – 1500 BC
Later Medieval Swedish 1300 – 1500
Norman 923 – 1071
Early Anglo-Saxon, Bavarian, Frisian, Old Saxon or Thuringian 260 – 532
Late Libyan Allies 550 – 500 BC
Later Medieval Danish 1300 – 1500
Viking 793 – 1175
African Vandal 442 – 534 Early Visigothic/Vandal 250 – 419
Later Carthaginian 275 – 146 BC
Early Ostrogothic, Herul, Sciri or Taifali 260 – 493
Early Anglo-Irish 1167 – 1300
Later Anglo-Irish1300 – 1500
Early Medieval Irish 1167 – 1300
Medieval Irish 1300 – 1500
Feudal French 1050 – 1300
Early Medieval German 888 – 1050
Carolingian Frankish 751 – 888
War of the Roses English 1455 – 1500
Italian Ostrogothic 493 – 561
Medieval French 1300 – 1445
Ordonnance French 1445 – 1500
Imperial German 1050 – 1340
Later Medieval German 1340 – 1500
Feudal German 1050 – 1340
Later Medieval Feudal German 1300 – 1500
Early Medieval Frisian and other Free Cantons 1106 – 1340
Later Medieval Frisian or Dithmarschen 1340 – 1500 Medieval German City Leagues 1300 – 1500
Communal Italian 1050 – 1340
Early Nomad 3100 – 300 BC Early Highland Raiders 3000 – 1000 BC Gepid or Early Lombard 260 – 568 Illyrian 325 BC – 1 AD
Medieval Burgundian 1363 – 1471
Hephthalite Hunnic 350 – 567
Classical Greek 700 – 279 BC
Sabir Hunnic Allies 454 – 575
Hellenistic Greek 279 – 146 BC
Hyksos 1650 – 1535 BC
New Kingdom Egypt 1550 – 1069 BC
Old or Middle Kingdom Egypt 2686 – 1550 BC
Libyan Egyptian 945 – 720 BC
Late Dynastic Egyptian -a- 664 – 525 BC
Alexandrian Macedonian 355 – 323 BC
Hittite Empire 1400 – 1180 BC
Axumite 100 – 970
Catalan Cpy. 1302 – 88 Early Teutonic Knights 1202 – 1300
Graeco-Bactrian 250 – 130 BC
Early Crusader 1096 – 1118
Later Teutonic Knights
Later Crusader 1118 - 1291 Fanatic Berber 1039 – 1500
Bedouin Dynasties 890 – 1079
Later Pre-Islamic Bedouin 400 – 636 Early Achaemenid Persian 550 – 420 BC
Late Achaem. 420 – 329 BC
Parthian 247 BC – 224 AD
Later Hebrew 1000 – 586 BC
Sassanid Persian 224 – 651
Later Jewish 167 BC – 6 AD
Cimmerian or Early Skythian 800 – 550 BC
Khurasanian Dynasties 821 – 1003
Jewish Revolt 66 – 73 / 132 – 135
Arab Conquest 629 – 85
Lydian 700 – 546 BC
Umayyad Arab 685 – 750
Abbasid Arab 747 – 946
Pre-Islamic Arabian 300 – 633
Urartian 860 – 585
Later Granadine 1340 –1492
Beja, Nile Valley Blemmye or Early Nobatae 250 – 1500
Elam 875 – 539
Mitanni 1595 – 1250 BC Later Sumerian or Akkadian 2800 – 1762 BC
Early Granadine 1232 – 1340
Indo-Greek 180 BC – 10 AD Median Empire 836 – 550 BC
Syro-Canaanite 1600 – 1100 BC
Taifa Andalusian 1031 – 1172
Later Seleucid 205 – 63 BC
Neo-Hittite and Aramaean 1100 – 700 BC
Early Elamite 2800 – 1100 BC
Santa Hermandad Nueva Castilian 1476 – 97
Free Company 1357 – 1444
Andalusian 755 – 1031
Early Successor 323 – 166 BC
Neo-Assyrian Empire 745 – 609 BC
Middle or Early Neo-Assyrian 1365 – 745 BC
Medieval Castilian 1350 – 1476
Early Navarrese 778 – 1035
Later Ptolemaic 166 – 30 BC
Neo-Babylonian Empire 626 – 539
Amorite Kingdoms 2000 – 1600 BC
Medieval Portugese 1357 – 1500
Astur-Leonese 718 – 1037 Pontic 110 – 47 BC Later Macedonian 260 – 148 BC
Late Dynastic Egyptian -b- 405 – 343 BC
Medieval Crown of Aragon 1336 – 1479
Feudal Castilian, Leonese or Portuguese 1037 – 1357
Pyrrhic 280 – 272 BC Kushite Egyptian 732 – 656 BC
Navarrese 1350 – 1378
Feudal Catalan and Early Crown of Aragon 988 – 1336
Kyrenean Greek 630 – 74 BC
Philistine 1100 – 732 BC
Ordnonnance Burgundian 1471 – 77
Swiss 1291 – 1500 Feudal Navarrese and Aragonese 1035 – 1328
Syracusan 412 – 211 BC Sea Peoples 1275 – 1100
Later Low Countries 1300 – 1477
Chinoite Hunnic Allies 375 – 500
Attalid Pergamene 262 – 129 BC Later Mycenaean or Trojan 1250 – 1175
Lombard 568 – 1077
Western Hunnic 370 – 580
Thracian 700 BC – 46 AD
Later Minoan or Early Mycenaean 1600 – 1250
Condotta Italian 1320 – 1500
Papal 1050 – 1340
Ayyubid Eg. 1171 – 1250
Fatimid Egyptian 978 – 1171
Early Northern African Dynasties 789 – 1091 Tuareg 950 – 1500
Later Moorish 350 – 700
Numidian or Early Moorish 225 – 1 AD Palmyran 258 – 273
Skythian or Saka 550 – 50 BC
Georgian 1008 – 1500
Early Alan 100 – 650
Early Ottoman Turkish 1299 – 1362
Dailami Dynasties 930 – 1055 Western Turkish 550 – 1016
Early Sarmatian 350 BC – 1 AD
Mamluk Egytian 1250 – 1500
Later Ottoman Turkish 1362 – 1500
Seljuk Turk 1037 – 1307
Later Sarmatian 100 – 475
Ilkhanid Mongol 1230 – 1353
Classical Indian 500 BC – 550 AD
Pecheneg 850 – 1122
Mongol Invasion 1223 – 42
Rus 860 – 1054
Kushan or Indo-Skythian 130 BC – 400 AD
Early Russian 1054 – 1264
Tatar 1242 – 1500 Later Russian 1265 – 1500
Cilician Armenian 1080 – 1375 Middle Armenian Allies 252 – 428
Early Armenian 331 – 252 BC
Syrian States 1092 – 1286 Early South Slav 500 – 1102 Early Slavic 500 – 833
Middle Serbian 1180 – 1300 Early Bulgarian 631 – 1018
Bosporan 348 BC – 375 AD
Middle Bulgarian 1186 – 1300
Later Serbian 1300 – 1459 Later Bulgarian 1300 – 1395
Cuman 1054 – 1394
Avar 553 – 826
Moldavian or Wallachian 1330 – 1500 Albanian 1356 – 58
Hussite 1419 – 79
Medieval Cypriot 1192 – 1489 Early Lithuanian or Samogitian 1100 – 1300
Later Lithuanian 1300 – 1500
Wendish, Prussian or Estonian 1100 – 1283 Feudal Polish 1058 – 1300
Early Polish 966 – 1058 Magyar 830 – 1000
Early Hungarian 1000 – 1308 Khwarazmian 1156 – 1246
Great Moravian 833 – 900
Later Polish 1300 – 1500 Middle Hungarian 1308 – 1440 Later Hungarian 1441 – 1500
Timurid, Black Sheep or White Sheep Turcoman 1360 – 1500 Ghaznavid 962 – 1187 Christian Nubian 550 – 1500 Vietnamese 700 BC – 1009 AD
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