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The Sumer make the first towns and cities. They used irrigation to farm big areas of land.
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The Sumer create powerful city-states building ziggurats as temples to pray to their gods.
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Lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by lots of different city-states such as Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
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The Sumerians create the first writing on clay tablets.They used pictures for words.
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The Sumerians started to use the wheel on their vehicles.
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The Sumerians start to use a number system with the base 60.
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This famous Sumerian king ruled the city-state of Ur.
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Egypt
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The Sumerian language is replaced by the Akkadian language. The Akkadian language is now the Sumerian primary language.
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Sargon I of the Akkadians army conquers most of the Sumerian city-states and creates the world's first empire, the Akkadian Empire.
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King Naram-Sin of the Akkadians expands the empire to its largest state. He ruled for 50 years.
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After the Akkadian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again get power. The city of Ur is rebuilt.
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The Elamites capture Ur.
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Egypt
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Ancient China
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Egypt
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Such as The Song of Miriam
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The timespan of Ancient Greece.
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Ancient China
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Ruth; Job; First Isaiah; some minor prophets;first version of Deuternomy
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Second Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Deuteronomy is expanded; Psalms
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The rest of the Torah; Third Isaiah; later prophets; Chronicles re-writes story of David to make it sound nicer
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Ancient China
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Ancient China
