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12,000 BCE
Test
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10,000 BCE
Beginning of the Holocene geologic epoch.
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9650 BCE
Wadi Faynan cite16
Wadi Faynan site 16 is located in the Wadi Faynan area of Southern Jordan. Pre Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) approximately 9650 BCE -
9250 BCE
Jerf el-Amar
Located in N Syria. -
9050 BCE
Gobekli Tepe
Is an archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey -
4000 BCE
Mesopotamia.
Sumerian civilization first took form in southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BCE -
3500 BCE
Cuneiform
Cuneiform is developed and used by Ancient Sumerians -
3100 BCE
Unification of Ancient Egypt
Archaic 3100-2660 BCE. Unification of Egypt.
Old Kingdom 2660-2180 BCE. Construction of the pyramids.
First Intermediate 2180-2080 BCE. Political chaos.
Middle Kingdom 2080- 1640 BCE. Recovery and political stability.
Second Intermediate 1640 -1570 BCE. Instability resulting from struggles for power and Hyksos migrations.
New Kingdom 1570-1070 BCE. Creation of an Egyptian empire; growth in wealth.
Third Intermediate 1100-653 BCE. Political fragmentation and conquest by outsiders -
2500 BCE
Assyria Empire Begins
Early Period (2500 - 2025 BCE),
Old Assyrian Empire (2025 BC - 1378 BCE),
Middle Assyrian Empire (1392 - 934 BCE)
Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 - 609 BCE). -
2334 BCE
Akkadian Empire
King Sargon of Akkad conquered and units all Sumerians and Akkadian speakers under one rule. -
1792 BCE
King Hammurabi
1792-1750. Hammurabi is the first great king of the Old Babylonian Empire. The Code of Hammurabi. -
1700 BCE
Hittites Empire begins
Old Kingdom approximately 1700 - 1500 BCE
Middle Kingdom/ Hittite Empire begins approximately 1400 BCE
Phrygian sack and burn major Hittite cities approximately 1200 BCE
End of the Hittites approximately 700 BCE -
1595 BCE
Hittites sack Old Babylonia
Hittites sack and occupy Babylonia -
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