Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- Christians and pagans: 1-565 CE -- Darkness descends: 476-1049 -- Medieval world: 1050-1321 -- Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- Patterns of persecution: 1700-1730 -- Sapphic lovers: 1700-1793 -- The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.