First Civilizations By sravyak 4000 BCE Start of First Civilizations Period: 4000 BCE to 3500 BCE Uruk Civilization Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Sumerian Civilization Emerged Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Egyptian Civilization Period: 3400 BCE to 3200 BCE Nubian Civilization Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE Norte Chico Civilization Period: 2700 BCE to 1600 BCE Xia Dynasty Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE Egypt's Old Kingdom 2500 BCE Minoan Civilization 2400 BCE Power of The Pharaoh Diminished 2350 BCE End of The Sumerian Civilization Period: 2350 BCE to 2000 BCE Akkadian Empire 2300 BCE Indus Valley Traders Period: 2250 BCE to 1950 BCE Low Floods of The Nile 2200 BCE Pharaoh's Discredited Due to Nile Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE Oxus Civilization Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE Indus Valley Civilizations 2000 BCE "The Earth Turned White" 2000 BCE Epic of Gilgamesh Period: 2000 BCE to 1700 BCE Mohenjo Daro & Harappa Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE Babylonian Empire 1775 BCE Code of Hammurabi Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE Shang Dynasty Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE Sanxingdui Civilization 1500 BCE Africa and Asia Bridged Through Egypt Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE Olmec Civilization Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE Zhou Dynasty Period: 900 BCE to 612 BCE Assyrian Empire Period: 221 BCE to 210 BCE China's First Emperor Qin Shihuangdi 500 Nubia Civilization Advancements 1700 The Abandonment of Indus Valley and Oxus civilization