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Neolithic agricultural villages
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Development of Sumerian Cities
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Early dynastic period
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Early dynastic period of Sumerian city-states
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Old Kingdom period
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Sargon establishes Akkadian dynasty and empire
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Indus civilization
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First Intermediate Period
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Third dynasty of Ur
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Middle Kingdom period
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Establishment of Amorites in Mesopotamia
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Aryan peoples invade northwestern India
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Reign of Hammurabi
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Bronze age city-states, aristocratic charioteers, pictographic writing
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Second intermediate period
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Establishment of Kassite dynasty at Babylon
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New Kingdom
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Rig-Vedic period, composition of hymns, Punjab is center of Indo-Aryan civilizatiom
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Late Vedic Period with Doab as center of civilization
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Reign of King David
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Reign of King Solomon
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Compositions of major Upanishads, probable reintroduction of writing
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Iron age territorial states
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Assyrian conquest of Israel (Northern Kingdom)
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Destruction of Jerusalem and fall of Judah, Babylonian captivity
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Restoration of temple, return of exiles
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Age of philosphers
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Composition of great epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana
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China is unified