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5000 BCE
5000 BCE
5000 BC - The Sumer form the first towns and cities. They use irrigation to farm large areas of land. -
5000 BCE
rising of cities
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4000 BCE
4000 BCE
4000 BC - The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods. -
3300 BCE
3300 BCE
3300 BC - The Sumerians invent the first writing. They use pictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets. -
Period: 3050 BCE to 332 BCE
egypt
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3000 BCE
3000 BCE
3000 BC - The Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60. -
Period: 2700 BCE to 2055 BCE
old kingdom
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2400 BCE
2400 BCE
2400 BC - The Sumerian language is replaced by the Akkadian language as the primary spoken language in Mesopotamia. -
2100 BCE
2100 BCE
2100 BC - After the Akkadian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again gain power. The city of Ur is rebuilt. -
Period: 2030 BCE to 1650 BCE
middle kingdom
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2000 BCE
2000 BCE
2000 BC - The Elamites capture Ur. -
2000 BCE
elimites capture Ur
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1050 BCE
shang Dynasty
Capitals: near present-day Zhengzhou and Anyang -
Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE
new kingdom
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Period: 1100 BCE to 500 BCE
Ancient Greece
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Period: 1100 BCE to 1000
Blessings and songs
such as the song of Miriam -
Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE
zhou Dynasty
Capitals: Hao (near present-day Xi'an) and Luoyang -
Period: 1000 BCE to 600
Torah
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Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE
the torah -j source
Ruth, job, first isaiah -
Period: 800 BCE to 500
ancient Greece
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Period: 586 BCE to 539 BCE
second isaiah
Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Deuteronomy is expanded, Psalms -
Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE
The rest of the torah
Third Isaiah, Later Prophets, chronicles re-writes story of David to make it sound louder -
Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
qin Dynasty
Capital: Chang'an, present-day Xi'an -
Period: 206 BCE to 220
han Dynasty
Confucianism officially established as basis for Chinese state by Han Wudi (r. 141-86 BCE)
