Sophia Ancient Civ. Timeline

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  • 4000 BCE

    M-Ziggurats

    Sumer people created worship buildings also used as a shelter in a flood.
    notes
  • 4000 BCE

    M-Sumer people build

    they built temples to their gods
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  • Period: 4000 BCE to 1000

    CIVILIZATION

  • 3500 BCE

    E-Nile settlers

    early settlers in the Nile valley
    ancientegypt.co.uk
  • 3300 BCE

    M-Cuneiform

    The Mesopotamian people created the first writing system. consisted of wedge shaped writing on a clay tablet
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  • 3200 BCE

    M-Wheel

    They created the first wheel
    ancient.eu
  • 3200 BCE

    E-Nile

    yearly Nile flood
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  • 3100 BCE

    E-Hieroglyphic Script

    script is developed
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  • 3000 BCE

    M-mathmatics

    started to implement math using a number system
    ducksters.com
  • 3000 BCE

    M-lever

    the lever is now used in Mesopotamia
    ancientegypt.eu
  • 2700 BCE

    M-King Gildamesh

    King of Ur-famous-has a famous story about him slaying monsters so he is super neat
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  • 2700 BCE

    E-pyramid

    first stone pyramid built
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  • 2700 BCE

    E-Old Kingdom

    first period in ancient history-pyramids were built
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  • 2700 BCE

    E-Giza

    pyramids-tombs-Sphinx-mummification-monuments
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  • 2500 BCE

    E-Middle Kingdom

    the second period
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  • 2200 BCE

    E-New Kingdom

    the last period of history
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  • 2083 BCE

    M-The Dark Age

    this was a rough patch in Mesopotamian history
    softschools.com
  • 1922 BCE

    I-Solomans death

    Davids son Solomon died-King
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  • 1792 BCE

    M-Hammurabi Code

    282 laws one of the oldest deciphered writings
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  • 1400 BCE

    I-patriarch

    Israelites had a patriarchal where is the oldest male was the head of the house they also had arranged marriages notes
  • 1300 BCE

    I-Religion

    The Hebrew Bible was written – also called the Torah – introduced the idea of believing in one God.notes
  • 1300 BCE

    I-Torah

    books of the law-cleanliness-crime-morals
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  • 1279 BCE

    E-Hatshepsut

    first woman pharaoh-took power for herself-
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  • 1213 BCE

    E-King Tut

    became pharaoh after death of Akhenaton--teenage king
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  • 1200 BCE

    I-Abraham

    known as the father of Jewish people-made a covenant with God notes
  • 1000 BCE

    I-King David

    united the 12 tribes of Israel
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  • 722 BCE

    I-Assyria

    Assyrians captured Israel
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  • 720 BCE

    I-New King

    King Nebuchadnezzar forced many into exile-
  • 586 BCE

    I-Judah

    Babylon captured Judah
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  • 539 BCE

    I-Persia

    Persia freed Israelites
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  • 333 BCE

    M-Alexander the Great

    he moved into the land and took over
    softschools.com