Template:World timeline

<timeline> ImageSize = width:800 height:250 PlotArea = width:720 height:200 left:65 bottom:20 AlignBars = justify

Colors =

   id:time value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # 
   id:period value:rgb(1,0.7,0.5) # 
   id:egypt value:rgb(1,0.7,0.5) # 
   id:age value:rgb(1,0.75,0.5) # 
   id:maya value:rgb(1,0.75,0.5) # 
   id:era value:rgb(1,0.85,0.5) # 
   id:india value:rgb(1,0.85,0.5) # 
   id:eon value:rgb(1,0.95,0.5) # 
   id:mideast value:rgb(1,0.95,0.5) # 
   id:china value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # 
   id:filler value:gray(0.8) # background bar
   id:black value:black

Period = from:-3000 till:600 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:500 start:-3000 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:100 start:-3000

PlotData =

 align:center textcolor:black fontsize:8 mark:(line,black) width:25 shift:(0,-5)

 bar:Time color:eon fontsize:10
 from: -3000 till: -2000 text:Old Period
 from: -2000 till: -1000 text:Early Period
 from: -1000 till:     0 text:Middle Period
 from:     0 till:   600 text:New Times

 bar:Egypt color:period fontsize:8
 from: -3000 till: -2055 text:Early/Old Egypt
 from: -2055 till: -1650 text:Middle Egypt
 from: -1650 till:  -800 text:Later Empires
 from:  -800 till:   500 text:Greek/Roman Empires

 bar:Peru color:era fontsize:8
 from: -3000 till: -1800 text:Caral-Supe
 from: -1800 till:  -900 text:Initial Ceramic
 from:  -900 till:   200 text:Early Horizon
 from:   200 till:   500 text:Early Intermediate

 bar:India color:age fontsize:8
 from: -3000 till: -2700 text:EarlyIndus
 from: -2700 till: -1900 text:Mature Harappan
 from: -1900 till: -1550 text:Late Harappa
 from: -1550 till:  -600 text:Vedic Period
 from: -600  till:   500 text:Various kingdoms

 bar:China color:eon fontsize:8
 from: -3000 till: -2000 text:Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Emperors
 from: -2000 till:  -1600 text:Xia
 from: -1600 till:  -1046 text:Shang
 from: -1046 till:   -256 text:Zhou
 from: -256  till:   -206 text:Qin
 from: -206  till:    220 text:Han
 
 bar:Maya color:period fontsize:8
 from: -3000 till: -2000 text:Pre-Mayan
 from: -2000 till:   250 text:Mayan Period
 from:  250  till:   500 text:Classic

 bar:Mideast color:era fontsize:8
 from: -3000 till:  -2750 text:Early Sumer
 from: -2750 till:  -2300 text:First Uruk
 from: -2300 till:  -2080 text:Akkadian
 from: -2080 till:  -1800 text:Third Uruk
 from: -1800 till:  -1170 text:Old Babylon
 from: -1170 till:   -612 text:Assyrian
 from:  -612 till:   -300 text:Latter period 
 from:  -300 till:    500 text:Iran Kingdoms

 bar:Greece color:age fontsize:7
 from: -2700 till: -1600 text: Minoan
 from: -1600 till: -1100 text: Mycenaean
 from: -1100 till:  -750 text: Dark Ages
 from:  -750 till:  -510 text: Archaic
 from:  -510 till:  -323 text: Classical
 from:  -323 till:  -146 text: Hellenistic
 from:  -146 till:   500 text: Roman/Byzantine Empires

</timeline>

Template documentation

The Template shows the Timeline of ancient world of Egyptian, Europian, Indian, Chinese, Mayan, and Sumerian. The references are: [1] [2] [3] [4].