Middle AgesIdeas & Belief Maimonides' Mishneh Torah c. 1180Notable Maimonides completes the Mishneh Torah, a 14-book code that organizes the whole of Jewish law in clear Hebrew. It becomes a model for later codes. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Aristotle's Lyceum → Alexander's conquests → Death of Alexander and the Hellenistic kingdoms → Seleucid Empire founded → Parthian Empire founded → Sasanian Empire → Babylonian Talmud → Maimonides' Mishneh Torah Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comMishne Torah (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookMoshe HalbertalMaimonides: Life and Thought ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeMaimonides Mishneh Torah explained ↗Editor's pick