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People began to settle in the Nile Valley. They started to use clay and silt to make pottery.
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Egyptians began to farm sheep and cattle. They also grew wheat and barely.
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Irrigation and agriculture began.
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Sumerians built their first temple, first walled cities.
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Chinese River Civilization begins along the Yellow River/Huang He River, marking the start of many Chinese Empires.
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Egyptians began to create the first hieroglyphics.
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Cities expanding in Mesopotamia and invention of the wheel.
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Pictograph record keeping began.
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Egyptians began to build walled towns and villages.
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The first signs of urbanization of the Indus Valley began.
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Silk was developed by the wife of the Yellow Empire, Leizu, Lady His-Ling-Shih.
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Major cities and towns are developed, making up the Indus Valley Civilization
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The Great Pyramids are built.
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Indus script began.
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Sign/writing becomes known as cuneiform.
The first war chariots are used. -
First code of laws are used by Urukagina, the King of Lagash
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Domesticated horses are used in Mesopotamia.
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Trade begins between Mesopotamia and other regions.
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The Indus Valley Civilization was declining and all major cities were abandoned.
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Metal casting of bronze objects (knives, swords, head protection, etc.) began.
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1675 - 1646 BC Shang Dynasty created and served as the first Chinese dynasty to rule.
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Many of the royal tombs were built in the Valley of the Kings
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Aryans begin to migrate into the Indus Valley.
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1045 - 221 BC
Zhou Dynasty conquers Shang Dynasty, and rules Chinese River Civilization. Glass becomes populate and becomes a unique good along the Silk Road. -
Muslin conquest of Mesopotamia.
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Alexander the Great invaded Egypt. Egypt was then rule by the Greek.
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221 - 206 BC
Qin Dynasty rules China, and also develops paper, which currently continues to exit in modern civilization and the world today. -
206 - 195 BC
Han Dynasty rules Chinese River Civilization, in which porcelain, compass, and acupuncture are developed and shared with the world we still reside among today. -
Rome occupies Mesopotamia
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25 - 220 BC
Tang Dynasty rules, and leads to the invention of gunpowder that exists throughout must of the world we saw in the past and present. Paper and a monetary system was established, which has been somewhat modified and used today. -
1279 - 1368 AD
Yuan Dynasty rules Chinese, sometimes referred to the Empire of the Greatest Khan. They were also considered a successor to the Mongol Empire. -
1386 - 1644 AD
Ming Dynasty rules and leads to re-establishment of rule by Han ruling house, as well as development of the capitals: Beijing and Nanjing. -
1644 - 1912
Qing Dynasty established capital as Beijing. -
First excavations in Mesopotamia. Remains of two-four legged wagons are found.
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British traveler Charles Masson came across "brick mounds" that were the Indus Valley Civilization.
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While building railway, engineers discovered bricks that likely belonged to the Indus Valley Civilization.
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Alexander Cunningham studied and published the first Indus Valley seal.
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1912 - 1949
This became known as the republic period in which a weak central government followed by the collapse of the dynastic system and Western influence was shown by the promotion of :science" and "democracy" during this new culture movement. -
Archaeologists began excavation of the Indus Valley Civilization.
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1949 - present
People's Republic of China is established and continues today (communist government).
