Gauls, Uruks & Olmecs By isabelleduff 4500 BCE Uruk founded by King Enmerkar Period: 4500 BCE to 2800 BCE Uruk 4100 BCE Uruk- largest centre of trade in the world 3600 BCE Invention of Writing 2900 BCE End of Uruk Period 2700 BCE Corn first cultivated in Mesoamerica 1787 BCE Hammurabi of Babylon conquers Uruk 1400 BCE Beginning of Celtic Culture 1200 BCE Olmec is founded 1200 BCE Beginning of the Iron Age Period: 1200 BCE to 300 BCE Iron Age Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE Olmec Civilisation 900 BCE Celtic Migration Begins 900 BCE La Venta becomes Capital of Olmec Period: 900 BCE to 300 BCE Gauls 700 BCE Iron age reaches Scotland 500 BCE Gauls seperate from other Celts 400 BCE La Venta is destroyed
