The Neolithic Revolution was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement.
7500 BCE
The first abandoned Empire
5500 BCE
Hindu introduced to India
5000 BCE
The Sumerians were believed to be the first human civilization
3500 BCE
Zoroastrianism was founded by Zoroaster
2630 BCE
The Egyptians built Pyramids
Period: 2360 BCE to 2611 BCE
The Pyramid of Djoser was built during the third dynasty
2350 BCE
The Akkaidian Empire contributed the first postal system, and good roadways .
2334 BCE
Sargon was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire
2000 BCE
Judaism founded
Period: 1800 BCE to 1900 BCE
First alphabet created
1792 BCE
The city began its rise to power when King Hammurabi took the throne.
1754 BCE
Hammurabi's Code built.
1750 BCE
Hammurabi's Code put in as a law
1595 BCE
In 1595 the Kassites conquered Babylon.
1508 BCE
Hatshepsut was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
1500 BCE
Aryans arrive in India
Period: 1332 BCE to 1323 BCE
King Tut was the pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty
1279 BCE
Ramses II took the throne of Egypt around 1279 BC.
1273 BCE
Moses is a prophet in Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah
1200 BCE
The Hittities occupied the first Anatolia in the 17th Century.
1000 BCE
The Phoenicians made the Phoenician alphabet.
Period: 970 BCE to 1010 BCE
King David was the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah from 1010-970 BCE
616 BCE
King Nebuchadnezzar took advantage of the fall of the Assyrian Empire to bring the seat of the empire back to Babylon.
612 BCE
Babylonia once again rose to power as the ruler of the empire over Mesopotamia.
567 BCE
Siddhartha Guatama was an ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded
Period: 562 BCE to 605 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar II was a Chaldean king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BC – c. 562 BC.
500 BCE
The Persian Empire was the first empire to introduce Trade, Money, and Measures
Period: 486 BCE to 522 BCE
Darius I was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
340 BCE
The Assyrians were known for their cruelty when fighting
