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Central Asia, Iran, Caucasus

Southeastern Asia

Ruins of an ancient city in Afghanistan

Akkadian Empire

Historical state in Mesopotamia

Ancient Semitic-speaking people from the Levant

Ancient history of Yemen

Ancient civilization of Yemen

Anuradhapura kingdom

Ancient Sinhalese kingdom

Christian middle eastern people

Major Mesopotamian East Semitic kingdom

Ancient Iranian kingdom (c. 323 BC – 226 AD)

Ancient Akkadian region in Mesopotamia

Babylonian captivity

Period in Jewish history during which inhabitants of the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon under the Neo-Babylonian Empire

Historical region in Central Asia

Ancient Korean kingdom (18 BCE – 660 CE)

Historical peoples in China and Vietnam

Battle of Ipsus

Battle of Kadesh

1274 BC Egyptian-Hittite battle

Canaan (TV series)

Japanese anime television series

Ancient Chinese state (220–265); one of the three major states in the Three Kingdoms period, with capital at Luoyang

Caucasian Albania

Ancient state in the Caucasus

Dynasty in ancient South India

One of the Three Crowned Kings (dynasties) of Tamilakam

Ancient chinese state

Chu–Han Contention

Civil war in China (206–202 BCE)

Nomadic Indo-European people, about 1000 BC

Historical region of Georgia

Ancient Arabian civilization

Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)

Archaeological culture of Mesopotamia

One of the Three Kingdoms of China (222-280)

Ancient Syrian city

Edicts of Ashoka

Ancient BCE inscriptions in South Asia

Ancient pre-Iranian civilization between 2700 and 539 BC

End of the Han dynasty

Historical era of China (189-220)

Fertile Crescent

Crescent-shaped region containing the moist and fertile land of Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Nile Delta of northeast Africa

Historical Chinese rulers

Four Commanderies of Han

Chinese commanderies set up to control the populace in the former Gojoseon area

Ancient Indo-Aryan civilization of Sapta Sindhu

Christian Arab kingdom

Ancient Korean kingdom that occupies land in present-day Korea and China.

Goguryeo–Wei War

Invasions into Goguryeo by Cao Wei forces (244-245)

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom

Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom (256–100 BCE)

Ancient Indian empire (c. 3rd century CE – 575 CE)

Zagros nation in antiquity

3rd-century BC to 3rd-century AD Chinese dynasty

Han–Xiongnu Wars

Conflicts between the Han Empire and the Xiongnu (133 BC – 89 AD)

History of ancient Israel and Judah

History of the ancient Levant

Ancient Anatolian people and their empire

Hồng Bàng dynasty

Legendary, semi-mythical period in Vietnamese historiography

Hundred Schools of Thought

Philosophies and schools that flourished from the 6th century to 221 BCE, during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period of ancient China

Historical ethnic group of Southwest Asia

Indo-Greek Kingdom

Hellenistic kingdom, covered parts of northwest Indian subcontinent during the two last centuries BC

Indo-Parthian kingdom

Historic kingdom (AD 19-226)

Nomadic Iranian peoples of Saka and Scythian origin

Indus Valley Civilisation

Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia

Confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes of the ancient Near East, who inhabited a part of Canaan

Jewish–Roman wars

Series of large-scale revolts by the Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean against the Roman Empire between 66 and 135 CE

Jin (Chinese state)

Ancient Chinese state based in present-day Shanxi Province (11th-century BC to 376 BC)

Jin dynasty (266–420)

Chinese dynasty (265–420)

Japanese prehistorical period

Kadamba dynasty

4th-6th century Indian dynasty

Conflict in ancient India

People of the ancient Near East

Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity)

321 BC – 428 AD monarchy in Ancient Near East

Kingdom of Iberia

Ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli

Kingdom of Pergamon

Kingdom of Pontus

281 BC–62 AD kingdom in northern Anatolia

Ancient Indo-aryan Vedic union

30–375 CE empire in Central and South Asia

Lakhmid kingdom

Ancient Arab monarchy

Ancient Anatolian kingdom

Maccabean Revolt

Jewish rebellion against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE

Kingdom in ancient India

Kingdoms in the Indian Subcontinent (c. 600 BCE–c. 345 BCE)

Mandate of Heaven

Political and religious doctrine of the Emperor of China

Master of European Design

Former Indian imperial dynasty

Historical region within the Tigris–Euphrates river system

Ancient kingdom in current southern China

State in northern Syria and south-east Anatolia from c. 1600 BC to 1260 BC, Mirko Novák's chronology

Nabataean Kingdom

Ancient Arab kingdom (3rd century BCE – 106 CE)

Indian empire from 4th century BCE

Kingdom in East Asia (204 BC – 111 BC)

Northern and Southern dynasties

Period in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589

First dynasty of Northern dynasties (386–535)

Odrysian kingdom

Union of Thracian tribes and kingdoms (5th century BC to 1st century AD)

Ancient Hindu kingdom of India

Parthian Empire

Iranian empire (247 BC – 224 AD)

Partition of Jin

Division of the State of Jin into the Han, Zhao, and Wei kingdoms (c. 481-403 BCE)

Ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan

Ancient Semitic civilization

Ancient kingdom in Anatolia

Pre-Islamic Arabia

Arabic civilization which existed in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam in the 630s

Pyu city-states

Group of city-states in present-day Myanmar

Zhou dynasty Chinese state (1046–221 BCE)

Qin's wars of unification

Military campaigns by Qin state against other Chinese states (230-221 BCE)

Rebellion of the Seven States

154 BC rebellion against the Han dynasty of China

Roman–Persian wars

Series of wars between ancient Greco-Roman and Iranian states

Historic group of nomadic Iranian peoples

Satavahana dynasty

Indian dynasty (2nd century BCE – 3rd century CE)

Purported ancient tribal confederation of the Late Bronze Age

Second Temple period

Period in Jewish history lasting between 516 BCE and 70 CE

Seleucid Empire

Hellenistic state in the Middle East from 312 BC to 63 BC

First directly-attested dynasty in Chinese history

Ancient South Arabian kingdom

Empire in China from 221 to 263; one of the Three Kingdoms

Period of Chinese history (220–589)

Sixteen Kingdoms

Period of Chinese history (304–439) which northern China fractured into a series of transient states founded by the "Five Barbarians"

Ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Empire

One of the twelve feudal states of Western Zhou dynasty

Southward expansion of the Han dynasty

Series of Chinese military campaigns by the Han dynasty

Spring and Autumn period

Period of ancient Chinese history from c. 771 BCE to c. 476 BCE

Ancient Mesopotamian civilization from 5500 to 1800 BC

Sumerian King List

Ancient text listing Sumerian Kingships

Wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom

Former kingdom in Indonesia

Third Dynasty of Ur

Royal dynasty in Mesopotamia

Period of Chinese history (220–280 AD) dominated by the Wei, Shu-Han, and Wu kingdoms

Three Kingdoms of Korea

Period of Korean history from 57 BCE to 668 CE

Indo-European ethnic group

Greek mythological war

Upheaval of the Five Barbarians

Rebellion of unsinicized peoples against the Jin dynasty

Iron Age kingdom located in a large region around Lake Van

Archaeological culture

Vakataka dynasty

Early 1st-millennium Indian dynasty

Ancient South Asian historical period

Vietnam under Chinese rule

Four historical periods when Vietnam was ruled by Chinese dynasties

War of the Eight Princes

Series of civil wars (291–306 CE) among princes of the Chinese Jin dynasty

Warring States period

Era in ancient Chinese history

Wars of the Diadochi

Series of conflicts after the death of Alexander the Great over the empire he left behind

Ancient state in China, during the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period

First dynasty in traditional Chinese history

Tribal confederation of nomadic Eurasian Steppe peoples

Period of Japanese history from c. 250 to 710; includes the Kofun and Asuka periods

Ancient state in northern China (11th century BC – 222 BC)

Japanese historical period from 200 BCE to 300 CE

1st-millennium BC state in eastern China

Ancient people mentioned in Chinese histories

Chinese dynasty preceding the Qin dynasty