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Ancient World History Timeline -Siena Weisman

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  • The Sumer
    5000 BCE

    The Sumer

    They formed the first set of cities
  • 4000 BCE

    The Sumer

    The Sumer establish powerful city-states
  • Mesopotamian Cities
    3500 BCE

    Mesopotamian Cities

    Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish
  • The Sumerians invent the first writing
    3300 BCE

    The Sumerians invent the first writing

    They inscribed clay tablets with words and pictures to use as a source of dialog and communication
  • The Sumerians begin to use the wheel
    3200 BCE

    The Sumerians begin to use the wheel

    They started inventing the wheel to move heavy objects, (such as people,) more efficiently.
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 322 BCE

    Ancient Egypt Time Span

  • The Sumerians learn the number system
    3000 BCE

    The Sumerians learn the number system

    They started counting and keeping track of amounts on clay tablets using their visual for 1,2,3,etc.
  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2055 BCE

    Old Kingdom of Egypt

  • 2400 BCE

    The Sumerian language is replaced for the Akkadian language

    The Akkadian language became the primary language for the local people.
  • 2330 BCE

    Sargon I creates the first empire

    He conquered most of the Sumerian city-states, and then created the Akkadian Empire!
  • King Naram-Sin expands the Akkadian Empire
    2250 BCE

    King Naram-Sin expands the Akkadian Empire

    He conquers more and then rules for 50 years.
  • The Akkadian Empire Falls (the Sumerians gain power again)
    2100 BCE

    The Akkadian Empire Falls (the Sumerians gain power again)

    After the empire falls the Sumerians gain power again. The Sumerians rebuild the city of Ur
  • Period: 2030 BCE to 1650 BCE

    Middle Kingdom of Egypt

  • 2000 BCE

    The Elamites captures Ur

  • 1900 BCE

    The Assyrians Rise

    They rule northern Mesopotamia
  • 1750 BCE

    The Assyrians Empire falls

    The Empire is taken over by the Babylonians.
  • 1750 BCE

    The Babylonians Empire Falls

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1050 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE

    New Kingdom of Egypt

  • 1360 BCE

    The Assyrians Rise Again

    They take over
  • The Assyrians begin to use iron and chariots
    1250 BCE

    The Assyrians begin to use iron and chariots

  • 1225 BCE

    The Assyrians take over the city of Babylon

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 1000 BCE

    The Blessings and Songs

    An example of this is, The Song of Miriam.
  • Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE

    The Torah- the J source; Ruth; Job; First Isaiah; some minor prophets; first version of the history books of Deuteronomy

  • Period: 800 BCE to 500

    Ancient Greece Time Span

  • 626 BCE

    Assyria Falls

    The nation begins to fall
  • The neo-Babylonian Empire rises
    616 BCE

    The neo-Babylonian Empire rises

    Nabopolassar takes control of Babylon back from the Assyrians and crowns himself king.
  • Period: 586 BCE to 539 BCE

    Second Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Deuteronomy is expanded; Psalms

  • The Persian Empire Begins
    550 BCE

    The Persian Empire Begins

    It is lead by Cyrus the Great
  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus the Great takes the city of Babylon

    He lets the jewish people return to Israel.
  • 522 BCE

    The empire turns into states

    each state is lead by a governor or satrap
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    The Rest of The Torah

    Third Isaiah; later prophets; Chronicles re-write story of David to make it sound nicer
  • 490 BCE

    The empire battles the Greeks

    They are defeated.
  • 480 BCE

    Then a new leader tries to conquer the Greeks

    They turn back as they are defeated
  • 333 BCE

    Alexander the Great takes control of the Persian Empire

  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty