Ancient Mesopotamia to Ancient Egypt

By Neptune08
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Ancient Mesopotamia

  • 4000 BCE

    Sumers establish large ziggurats located at the center of their cities as religious temples

  • 3500 BCE

    Lower Mesopotamia starts to become inhabited by Sumerians

  • Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE

    Ancient Greece

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • 399 BCE

    The philosopher Socrates is condemned to death for extensively questioning his own society