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500 BCE
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Sumerian City-States (3500 BCE)
Indus Valley Civilization (3300 BCE)
Old Kingdom Egypt (2686 BCE)
Akkadian Empire (2334 BCE)
Xia Dynasty (2070 BCE)
Maya Civilization (2000 BCE)
Babylonian Empire (Old) (1894 BCE)
Shang Dynasty (1600 BCE)
Hittite Empire (1600 BCE)
New Kingdom Egypt (1550 BCE)
Kingdom of Kush (1070 BCE)
Zhou Dynasty (1046 BCE)
Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
Kingdom of Magadha (684 BCE)
Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BCE)
Mahajanapadas (16 Kingdoms) (600 BCE)
Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
Roman Republic (509 BCE)
Athenian League (Delian) (478 BCE)
Nanda Empire (345 BCE)
Empire of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
Seleucid Empire (312 BCE)
Ptolemaic Egypt (305 BCE)
Parthian Empire (247 BCE)
Satavahana Empire (230 BCE)
Qin Dynasty (221 BCE)
Han Dynasty (206 BCE)
Shunga Empire (185 BCE)
Roman Empire (27 BCE)
Kushan Empire (30 CE)
Aksumite Empire (100 CE)
Teotihuacan (100 CE)
Sassanid Empire (224 CE)
Yamato Japan (250 CE)
Ghana Empire (300 CE)
Gupta Empire (320 CE)
Byzantine Empire (395 CE)
Frankish Kingdom (481 CE)
Harsha's Empire (606 CE)
Tang Dynasty (618 CE)
Srivijaya Empire (650 CE)
Umayyad Caliphate (661 CE)
Abbasid Caliphate (750 CE)
Carolingian Empire (768 CE)
Holy Roman Empire (800 CE)
Khmer Empire (802 CE)
Kingdom of France (843 CE)
Chola Empire (848 CE)
Kingdom of England (927 CE)
Toltec Empire (950 CE)
Song Dynasty (960 CE)
Seljuk Empire (1037 CE)
Kingdom of Benin (1180 CE)
Mongol Empire (1206 CE)
Delhi Sultanate (1206 CE)
Mali Empire (1235 CE)
Golden Horde (1242 CE)
Yuan Dynasty (1271 CE)
Ottoman Empire (1299 CE)
Vijayanagara Empire (1336 CE)
Ming Dynasty (1368 CE)
Portuguese Empire (1415 CE)
Aztec Empire (1428 CE)
Inca Empire (1438 CE)
Songhai Empire (1464 CE)
Spanish Empire (1492 CE)
Safavid Empire (1501 CE)
Mughal Empire (1526 CE)
French Colonial Empire (1534 CE)
Dutch Empire (1581 CE)
British Empire (1583 CE)
Tokugawa Shogunate (1603 CE)
Qing Dynasty (1644 CE)
Maratha Empire (1674 CE)
Russian Empire (1721 CE)
United States of America (1776 CE)
Empire of Japan (1868 CE)
Soviet Union (1922 CE)
Republic of India (1947 CE)
People's Republic of China (1949 CE)
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