Based on Max I. Dimont's parallel chronology charts from The Indestructible Jews and the “Here's When It Happened” tables, with their factual errors corrected. Each row pairs what the world was doing with what the Jews were doing at the same time. Pick a stage of the Talmud to narrow the years, or search for a person, place or idea.
Six challenges, two interregna. Each has a society and a response.