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History and Philosophy

To faciliate reading, I have included two tables: the first one provides links to those thinkers who most influenced our beliefs, while the second table breaks down Earth and Human history into Eons, Eras, Periods, Epochs, and Ages. The individuals highligthed in orange are my favourite.


Up to 400 AD	Up to 1,400 AD	Up to 1,800 AD	Up to 2,000 AD
Seven Sages (Pittacus, Solon, Thales, Bias, Cleobulus, Chilon, Periander) Anaximander Carvaka Mahavira Anaximenes Pythagora Xenophanes Gautama Siddhartha Confucious Kapila Heraclitus Parmenides Anaxagoras Zeno Empedocles Melissus Gorgias Protagoras Leucippus Democritus Hippocrates Mozi Socrates Cynicism Cyrenaics Megarian School Plato Laozi Aristotle Mencius Skepticism Chanakya Epicurus Hsun Tzu Jaimini Han Fei Kanada Patanjali Cicerone The Stoics Seneca Philo Jesus Christ Acharya Nagarjuna Origen Aksapada Gautama Plotinus Mani Aryadeva Saint Ambrose John Chrysostom Saint Jerome Saint Augustine	Hypatia Vasubandhu Proclus Boethius Dignaga Mahomet Candrakirti Dharmakirti Kumarila Bhatta Prabhakara Salikanatha Adi Shankara Mandana Misra John Scotus Eriugena Avicenna Saint Anselm Abelard Maimonides Averroes Gioacchino da Fiore Roberto Grossatesta Saint Francis Saint Albertus Magnus Roger Bacon San Saint Bonaventure Thomas Aquinas Ramon Llull Gangesha Upadhyaya John Duns Scotus Marsilio da Padova William of Ockham	Gendun Drub Nicolas Cusanus Lorenzo Valla Marsilio Ficino Lorenzo il Magnifico Leonardo da Vinci Pietro Pomponazzi Pico della Mirandola Erasmus of Rotterdam Niccolo Machiavelli Yogi Swatmarama Gendun Gyatso Thomas More Francesco Guicciardini Martin Luter Ulrich Zwingli Nicolaus Copernicus Nostradamus John Calvin Bernardino Telesio Michel de Montaigne Sonam Gyatso Tycho Brahe Johannes Kepler Giordano Bruno Francisco Suarez Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei Tommaso Campanella Thomas Hobbes Yonten Gyatso Rene Descartes Lozang Gyatso Pascal Blaise Baruch Spinoza John Locke Nicolas de Malebranche Isaac Newton Gottfried Leibniz Giambattista Vico Tsangyang Gyatso Christian Wolff George Berkeley Charles-Louis Montesquieu Francois Voltaire Carl Linnaeus Kelzang Gyatso David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau Denis Diderot Alexander Baumgarten Bonnot de Condillac Jean le Rond D'Alembert Adam Smith Immanuel Kant Encyclopedistes Gotthold Lessing Thomas Paine Marquis de Sade Thomas Jefferson Jeremy Bentham William Godwin Jamphel Gyatso Mary Wollstonecraft Herni de Saint-Simon	Georg Hegel Charles Fourier James Mill Arthur Schopenhauer Thomas Carlyle Auguste Comte Lungtok Gyatso Karim Khan Kirmani Siyyid Ali-Muhammad Ludwig Feuerbach Alexis de Tocqueville Giuseppe Mazzini Max Stirner John Stuart Mill Pierre Proudhon Charles Darwin Soren Kierkegaard Mikhail Bakunin Socialism Tsultrim Gyatso Henry Thoreau Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Herbert Spencer Khendrup Gyatso Peter Kropotkin Rama Mohan Brahmachari Friedrich Nietzsche Eduard Bernstein Sigmund Freud Trinley Gyatso John Dewey Max Weber Benedetto Croce Mahatma Gandhi Vladimir Lenin Rosa Luxemburg Bertrand Russell Thubten Gyatso Muhammad Iqbal Martin Buber Albert Einstein Otto Bauer Georg Lukacs Sergio Panunzio Sivananda Saraswati Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Martin Heidegger Antonio Gramsci Walter Benjamin Paramhansa Yogananda Max Horkheimer Jiddu Krishnamurti Herbert Marcuse Leo Strauss Alfred Sohn-Rethel Friedrich Hayek Erich Fromm Michael Oakeshott Karl Popper Theodor Adorno Jean-Paul Sartre Hannah Arendt Sayyid Qutb Isaiah Berlin Albert Camus Pattabhi Jois Roland Barthes Bellur Iyengar Fazlur Rahman Malik Louis Althusser Paulo Freire John Rawls Cornelius Castoriadis Frantz Fanon Gilles Deleuze Michel Foucault Nhat Hanh Jean Baudrillard Jurgen Habermas Jacques Derrida Felix Guattari Ronald Dworkin Guy Debord Osho Antonio Negri Fredric Jameson Wendell Berry Tenzin Gyatso Robert Nozick Stephen Hawking Etienne Balibar Slavoj Zizek Edward Witten

This second table is structured using information from Wikipedia as well as data collected over the years from various books. The main title of each section links to a page on this website, while the subtitles are linked to Wikipedia pages as previously done for the philosophers.


In the Beginning... 13,700,000,000 - 4,592,000,000 B.C.	Hadean Eon 4,567,000,000 B.C.	Archean Eon 3,800,000,000 B.C.	Proterozoic Eon 2,500,000,000 B.C.
Phanerozoic Eon Palaeozoic Era: 542 Ma Mesozoic Era: 251 Ma Cenozoic Era: 65 Ma	Cenozoic Era Paleogene Period: 65Ma Neogene Period: 23Ma	Neogene Period Miocene Epoch 23 Ma Pliocene Epoch 5 Ma Pleistocene Epoch 1.5 Ma Holocene Epoch 10,000 B.C.	Holocene Epoch Mesolithic: 10,000 B.C. Neolithic: 8,000 B.C. Chalcolithic: 4,500 B.C.
Bronze Age Early Bronze Age (c.3500-2000 BC) Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-1600 BC) Late Bronze Age (c.1600-1200 BC)	1,200 - 600 B.C. Zoroastrianism (Iran) Judaism (Israel) Hinduism (India)	600 - 450 B.C. Philosophy (Greece) Charvakism (India) Jainism (India) Buddhism (Nepal) Confucianism (China)	450 B.C. - 400 A.C. Taoism (China) Yoga (India) Christianity (Italy) Neoplatonism (Greece) Manicheism (Persia)
400 � 1,400 A.C. Islam (Saudi Arabia)	1,400 � 1,800 A.C. Enlightenment (Europe) Materialism (Europe)	1,800 � 2,000 A.C. Romanticism (Europe) Babiism (Iran) Socialism (Russia) Communism (Europe)	Future 21 Century