4000 B.C.E. to 0 C.E.

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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Horse was domesticated by pastoral peoples living in southern Russia

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Beginnings of Mesopotamian Civilization

    The civilization of Sumer was founded in southern Mesopotamia(present-day Iraq). It also gave rise to the world's earliest written language.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    The Beginning of Egyptian Civilization

    In the Nile River Valley, the Egyptian civilization emerged. It was known for its pharaohs and pyramids. Instead of separated states, this was one unified territorial civilization.
  • Period: 3400 BCE to 3200 BCE

    Nubian Kingdom of Ta-Seti

  • Period: 3200 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Period of independent Sumerian city-states

  • Period: 3200 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Sumer is organized into separate city-states, ruled by kings.

  • Period: 3100 BCE to 3100 BCE

    Egyptian civilization starts through the merging of several earlier states/chiefdoms

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Beginning of Norte Chico Civilization

    Near the central coast of Peru, this civilization emerged. Most of life there was cultivated due to the rivers present, since this was a desert region which received very little rainfall. Through fishing, trade was established to gain other essential goods.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Life of Norte Chico civilization

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2001 BCE

    Uruk has walls taller than 20 feet and population around 50,000

  • Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE

    Old Kingdom Egypt (high point of pharaoh's power and pyramid building)

  • Period: 2600 BCE to 2600 BCE

    Caral site is supposedly made(city of Norte Chico)

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Minoan civilization on the island of Crete emerges

    Some argue it is a mix of aspects from both Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations
  • Period: 2400 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Sumer(southern Mesopotamia) experiences lower crop yields due to soil erosion

  • Period: 2400 BCE to 2400 BCE

    Power of the pharaoh diminishes

    People(not pharaohs) get their own land which they can pass onto their sons, gaining authority
  • Period: 2350 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Akkadian civilization lifetime

    Large territorial state that encompassed all/most of Mesopotamia
  • Period: 2300 BCE to 2300 BCE

    Sumerian merchants establish seaborne contact with the Indus Valley civilization

  • Period: 2250 BCE to 1950 BCE

    The Nile River experiences low floods

    Decreases crop yield for Egyptian civilization, large-scale starvation, loss of livestock, and political disruption.
  • Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Beginnings of Chinese, Indus Valley, and Central Asian(Oxus) civilizations.

  • Period: 2200 BCE to 2200 BCE

    Pharaoh's power is severely discredited, and Egypt dissolves into smaller principalities

    This happens after the weather becomes worse and worse
  • Period: 2200 BCE to 2200 BCE

    Early civilization of China is made(FIRST)

    (BEFORE THE DYNASTIES)
  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Xia(shyah dynasty) lifetime(CHINA)

  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Xia dynasty in China(traditionally seen as first dynasty of Chinese history)

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Egypt's centralized rule is revived

    Pharaoh's control is still not that high
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Epic of Gilgamesh compiled

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Indus Valley Civilization supposedly becomes larger than any one of the First Civilizations

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    City of Mohenjo Daro in Indus River flourishes(40,000 people)

  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Babylonian civilization lifetime

    Large territorial state that encompassed all/most of Mesopotamia
  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Reign of Hammurabi

  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Abandonment of Indus Valley cities

  • Period: 1650 BCE to 1650 BCE

    Foreigners surrounding the Egyptian civilizations migrate and conflict with the Nile Valley civilization

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE

    Shang dynasty lifetime(CHINA)

  • Period: 1595 BCE to 1595 BCE

    Hittites(from Anatolia) sacks city of Babylon(Mesopotamia)

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1064 BCE

    New Kingdom Egypt

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Egypt becomes an imperial state that bridges both Africa and Asia.

    Rule over non-Egyptian peoples
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1001 BCE

    Mesopotamian/Assyrian law code establishes veiling of noble women and non-veiling of non-noble women

  • Period: 1472 BCE to 1457 BCE

    Egypt's most famous queen, Hatshepsut rules and is portrayed with masculine features

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Olmec civilization(final First Civilization)

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Military innovations such as the chariot spread and reach China, creating a strong Chinese state

  • Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE

    Zhou dynasty lifetime(CHINA)

  • Period: 900 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrian civilization

    Large territorial state that encompassed all/most of Mesopotamia
  • Period: 900 BCE to 900 BCE

    Olmecs supposedly create the first written language in the Americas

  • Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE

    Kush conquest of Egypt

  • Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE

    Nubian kingdom of Kush invades Egypt and rules

  • Period: 586 BCE to 586 BCE

    Babylonian conquest of Judah

  • Period: 500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Egypt and Mesopotamia incorporated into Persian Empire

  • Period: 500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Nubia, the kingdom near Egypt, develops a major ironworking industry

    Regularly establishes political and cultural independence from Egypt