The Silk Road & the Steppe
Explore The Silk Road & the Steppe on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Han open the Silk Road (130 BCE)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Marco Polo's journey to China (1271)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Pax Mongolica (1260)
- Zhang Qian's mission to the West (138 BCE)
- Yamnaya migration (3300 BCE)
- The Great Game (1830)
- Belt and Road Initiative launched (2013)
- Tamerlane (Timur) (1336)
- Domestication of the horse (3500 BCE)
- Mongol sack of Baghdad (1258)
- Spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road (100)
- Tang reopens the Silk Road (640)
- Ibn Battuta (1304)
- Kushan Empire (30)
- Mongol invasion of Khwarazm (1219)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Scythian dominance of the Pontic steppe (700 BCE)
- Golden Horde (1242)
- Russian conquest of Central Asia (1865)
- Mogao Caves at Dunhuang (366)
- Papermaking spreads west (751)
- Independence of the Central Asian republics (1991)
- Xuanzang (602)
- Xiongnu confederation (209 BCE)
- Plague arrives at Caffa (1346)
- Timurid Empire (1370)
- Sogdian merchants dominate the Silk Road (400)