The Age of Ancient Texts - A Relative Perspective

YOUR LIFETIME ~ 25 years	~ 2020 CE
	1900 CE
	1800 CE
	1700 CE
	1667 - Paradise Lost
	1600 CE
	1532 - Gargantua and Pantagruel
	1500 CE
	1400 CE
	1369-1372 - The Canterbury Tales
	1308-1321 - The Divine Comedy 1300 CE
	1200 CE
	1100 CE
	1000 CE
	Adaptations of earlier texts are begun -- This collection will become the Thousand Nights and a Night
	900 CE
	800 CE
50 generations
	700 CE
	"The Seafarer" (exact dating is uncertain)
	600 CE
	"The Wanderer" (exact dating is uncertain)
	500 CE
	400 CE
	300 CE
	200 CE
	100 CE
80 generations	0
	29-19 BCE - The Aeneid
	100 BCE
	200 BCE
	300 BCE
	347 BCE - The Apology
	c. 400-300 BCE - Bhagavad -Gita 400 BCE
	442 BCE - Antigone
100 generations	c. 500-400 BCE - The Ramayana 500 BCE
	600 BCE
	700 BCE
	800 BCE
	The Iliad and The Odyssey
	900 BCE
	1000 BCE
	1100 BCE
	1200 BCE
	1300 BCE
	1400 BCE
	1500 BCE
	1600 BCE
	1700 BCE
150 generations
	1800 BCE - The Epic of Gilgamesh
	1900 BCE
	2000 BCE
	2100 BCE
	2200 BCE
	2300 BCE
	2400 BCE
	Lifetime of Bilgame [Gilgamesh]
	2500 BCE
	2600 BCE
	2700 BCE
	2800 BCE
	2900 BCE
200 generations	3000 BCE
	3100 BCE
	3200 BCE
	3300 BCE
	3400 BCE
	3500 BCE
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344 generations	c. 6600 BCE - Etchings upon tortoise shells found in Neolithic graves in central China may be the world's oldest evidence of writing.