Second term timeline By eduardoporras@rs.edu.mx 9000 BCE Domestication of Teosinte into Corn 3500 BCE Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization 2500 BCE Start of the Preclassic Period (Olmec Civilization in Mesoamerica) 2334 BCE Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia 2000 BCE Flourishing of Babylonian Culture (Mesopotamia) 776 BCE First Olympic Games in Ancient Greece 530 BCE Fall of Babylon (Mesopotamia) 490 BCE Greco-Persian Wars (Ancient Greece) 480 BCE Classical Period of Ancient Greece 323 BCE Death of Alexander the Great (Beginning of the Hellenistic Period) 146 BCE Fall of Ancient Greece to Rome 1 BCE Beginning of the Classic Period (Mesoamerica) 900 Start of the Postclassic Period (Mesoamerica) 1521 Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica
