Sumerians By Klein Family Period: 4000 BCE to 359 Sumerians pictograph Period: 4000 BCE to 359 king urakagian repeals taxes and tax collectors of lagash Period: 4000 BCE to 359 BCE sails first used on boats on the Nile river Period: 3500 BCE to 359 BCE Sumerian cuneiform Period: 3500 BCE to 359 founding of UR Period: 3500 BCE to 359 Haida culture begins in NW coast of Canada Period: 3000 BCE to 359 wheel appears Period: 3000 BCE to 359 BCE bronze age begins on crete Period: 2800 BCE to 359 BCE stone age in Britain Period: 2700 BCE to 359 king Gilgamesh reigns Uruk in sumer Period: 2700 BCE to 359 BCE founding of troy Period: 2650 BCE to 2500 BCE great period of pyramid building Period: 2500 BCE to 2019 rice cultivated in china Period: 2500 BCE to 359 BCE libraries in Egypt Period: 2349 BCE to 2350 BCE the flood Period: 2242 BCE to 2257 BCE tower of babel Period: 2200 BCE to 359 BCE first navy Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE bronze age in Scotland Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE warlike mycenaens Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE pottery wheel introduced Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE inuits in arctic Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE andean settlements in peru Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE Hittites settle in Alibaba Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE end of sumerian power in mesopotamia Period: 2000 BCE to 359 BCE warlike Mycenaean Period: 1996 BCE to 1999 BCE dispersion Period: 1996 BCE to 2019 wheat and barley grown in Egypt Period: 1960 BCE to 359 BCE lake covers kush Period: 1935 BCE to 359 Abraham visits Egypt Period: 1786 BCE to 359 rule of the Hyksos in Egypt Period: 1600 BCE to 359 BCE keram age of kush Period: 1595 BCE to 359 BCE hittites plunder babylon Period: 1580 BCE to 1350 BCE book of dead existed in pyramid inscriptions Period: 1500 BCE to 359 BCE akhenaten's endeavors consume the treasury Period: 1500 BCE to 359 BCE collapse of minoan civilization Period: 1500 BCE to 359 BCE shang kingdom in china Period: 1450 BCE to 359 BCE Mycenaean invasions Period: 1450 BCE to 359 BCE volcano eruption on thera Period: 1400 BCE to 359 BCE Phoenician alphabet Period: 1375 BCE to 359 BCE knossos burnt to the ground Period: 1300 BCE to 359 BCE Hebrews enter Canaan Period: 1200 BCE to 500 BCE Olmec Period: 1100 BCE to 359 BCE dorians invade Greece Period: 1000 BCE to 359 BCE laventa becomes important to olmec Period: 1000 BCE to 700 BCE geometric age Period: 860 BCE to 359 BCE Phoenicians conquered by Babylon Period: 850 BCE to 359 BCE Carthage founded by Elissa Period: 800 BCE to 359 BCE Etruscan city-states founded Period: 776 BCE to 359 BCE 1st Olympics Period: 770 BCE to 359 BCE nubian rulers in Egypt Period: 735 BCE to 359 etruscans set up city states. Period: 735 BCE to 359 BCE syracuse founded in sicily Period: 725 BCE to 359 BCE kush conquers Egypt Period: 667 BCE to 359 BCE assyrians defeats kush Period: 650 BCE to 359 BCE cytene founded in north Africa Period: 625 BCE to 359 BCE Assyrians driven out of Mesopotamia Period: 616 BCE to 578 BCE Etruscan king tarquinius priscus rules Rome Period: 605 BCE to 359 BCE war with Egypt Period: 600 BCE to 369 BCE nok people of west Africa mine iron Period: 590 BCE to 359 BCE solon introduces laws abolishing enslavement for debtors Period: 586 BCE to 359 BCE fall of Jerusalem Period: 557 BCE to 359 BCE Persian empire founded Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE Persian empire Period: 543 BCE to 580 BCE christian kush Period: 539 BCE to 359 BCE Cyrus of Persia liberates Babylon Period: 530 BCE to 359 BCE meroe the new captain Period: 508 BCE to 359 BCE cleisthenes introduces democratic reforms to Greece Period: 500 BCE to 359 BCE Rome free of the Etruscan Period: 500 BCE to 359 BCE Celts in central Europe Period: 396 BCE to 359 BCE Veii conquered by Rome Period: 390 BCE to 359 BCE Gauls attack the North Period: 326 BCE to 359 BCE Alexander the great extends his empire Period: 285 BCE to 359 BCE Ptolemy rules Egypt Period: 256 BCE to 359 BCE mauryans rule India Period: 250 BCE to 359 BCE parthian kingdom Period: 221 BCE to 359 BCE Chinese emperor qin builds the great wall driving back the Huns Period: 1 BCE to 1 BCE creation Period: 1 CE to 2 expulsion from Eden Period: 2200 to 359 middle joman period begins in japan Period: 3000 to 359 scientist able to predict the size of the annual flood Period: 3500 to 359 Sumerian cuneiform Period: 3500 to 359 fishing villages flourish in Peru Period: 3500 to 359 naqada culture begins in Egypt