User:Steelmate/Timeline of Armenian history

((userspace)) __NOINDEX__ This article provides a timeline of the Armenian history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Armenia.

Neolithic

 * The history of Armenia begins with Neolithic cultures of the South Caucasus, such as the Shulaveri-Shomu culture
 * Bronze Age Kura-Araxes and Trialeti cultures.
 * Iron Age kingdom of Urartu lasted from the 9th century to 585 BC
 * replaced by the Orontid dynasty
 * Following Persian and Macedonian rule
 * the Artaxiad dynasty from 190 BC
 * gave rise to the Kingdom of Armenia
 * peak of its influence under Tigranes II
 * falling under Roman rule.
 * In 301, Arsacid Armenia was the first sovereign nation to accept Christianity as a state religion.