User:Steelmate/Timeline of Armenian history

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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.