Age of Civilization

The **Age of Civilization** was the time period in which civilization slowly encompasses Earth. It begins immediately following year 1 in the Common Era.

## Timeline

**1**

The Rachni Wars are sparked when Citadel expeditions encounter the rachni, a hive-minded insectoid race.

**80**

The salarians uplift the krogans of Tuchanka to fight the rachni. Their absurd resiliency made them perfect soldiers to fight on the near-inhospitable rachni worlds.

**300**

With the end of the Rachni Wars, the Council gifts the krogan numerous worlds to inhabit. However, their population starts growing exponentially, which will cause massive future issues.

**476**

Beginning of the human Middle Ages

**570**

Birth of Muhammad

**693**

Beelo Gurji, a Salarian, becomes the first Spectre.

**700**

To sustain their ever-growing numbers, krogans begin to annex territory of other races. The conflict that sprouted from this became known as the Krogan Rebellions. The Citadel is forced to ask for aid from the Turian Hierarchy in the war, which they receive.

**710**

The salarians develop the genophage, a bio-weapon designed to cripple krogan birth rates. The war turns decisively in the Citadel’s favor.

**800**

The Krogan Rebellions draw to a close. The turians fill the niche in the Citadel as their primary military and peacekeeping force.

**900**

In recognition of their part in ending the Krogan Rebellions, the Turians gain a spot on the Citadel Council. The volus, a “client race” of the Hierarchy, is enters the Citadel. The volus introduce the galactic credit, the primary currency of the galaxy.

**965**

Births of Thor and Loki

**973**

The Covenant encounter the Kig-Yar, and bring them into the fold.

**1014**

Beginning of the Kree-Nova War

**1096**

The First Crusade

**1112**

Yanme’e are incorporated into the Covenant as a slave race after a bloody first contact. After effective communication between the San’Shyuum and the Hive Queens was established, integration went swiftly.

**1162**

Birth of Temüjin/Genghis Khan

**1209**

The Citadel and the Covenant come into contact. Tensions and hostilities with both powers sparks the War of Two Councils.

**1277**

War of Two Councils comes to an end with the death of the Red Blade, an Arbiter. An armistice was agreed upon between the two powers, in which they keep to their borders and avoid each other best as possible, lest another war breaks out.

**1347**

The Black Death arises in Europe.

**1428**

Establishment of the Aztec Empire

**1452**

Birth of Leonardo da Vinci

**1490**

Drawing of the Vitruvian Man

**1506**

Painting of the Mona Lisa

**1564**

Births of William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei

**1600**

Collectors are sighted for the first time, in the Terminus Systems. Few outside the territory believe them to be anything more than fiction.

**1643**

Birth of Isaac Newton

**1662**

Extinction of the Dodo, Raphus cucullatus.

**1687**

Publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, introducing Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation (gravity).

**1769**

Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte

**1787**

Birth of Shaka Zulu

**1809**

Birth of Charles Darwin

**1832**

Birth of James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine.

**1859**

Publication of On the Origin of Species

**1869**

Birth of Mahatma Gandhi

**1879**

Birth of Albert Einstein

**1895**

The geth, mechanical constructs created by the quarians, achieve self-awareness. With the quarians fearing an uprising, they begin to dismantle the geth, which ends in the Morning War. The geth force the quarians off Rannoch and their colonies, causing them to form the Migrant Fleet.

**1914**

Beginning of World War I. Wonder Woman, Wolverine, and a number of other metahumans take part in the conflict.

Hydra and the Templars form an alliance to better secure world domination.

**1916**

Publication of the Theory of Relativity

**1917**

Birth of Howard Stark

**1918**

End of WWI.

Birth of Steve Rogers/Captain America.

**1922**

Founding of The Philosophers.

Birth of “The Boss”

**1923**

Yautja launch expeditions into Geth territory to hunt the machines.

**1930**

Birth of Erik Magnus Lehnsherr/Magneto

**1932**

Births of Charles Xavier and “Venom Snake”/”The Phantom”

**1935**

Birth of John/Naked Snake/Big Boss

**1939**

Beginning of World War II.

Howard Stark founds Stark Industries