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Period: 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE
The Emergence of Human Communities
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Period: 2350 BCE to 2230 BCE
Akkadian
RED -
Period: 2112 BCE to 2004 BCE
Third Dynasty of Ur
RED -
Period: 2040 BCE to 1640 BCE
Middle Kingdom reigns in Egypt
GREEN -
2000 BCE
Spread of Horses
YELLOW -
2000 BCE
Rise of Minoan civilization on Crete; early Greeks arrive in Greece
PURPLE -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE
The Emergence of Human Communities
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Period: 1900 BCE to 1600 BCE
Old Babylonian
RED -
1800 BCE
Abraham migrated to Canaan
PINK -
Period: 1750 BCE to 1045 BCE
Shang dynasty
YELLOW -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE
Hittites dominant in Anatolia
PURPLE -
Period: 1640 BCE to 1532 BCE
Hyksos dominate northern Egypt
GREEN -
1600 BCE
Rise of Mycenaean civilization in Greece
PURPLE -
1532 BCE
Beginning of New Kingdom
GREEN -
1500 BCE
Hittites develop iron metallurgy
RED -
Period: 1500 BCE to 1150 BCE
Kassite ruled in Mesopotamian
RED -
Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE
The Emergence of Human Communities
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1450 BCE
Destruction of Minoan palaces in Crete
PURPLE -
Period: 1250 BCE to 1200 BCE
Israelite occupation of Canaan
PINK -
1200 BCE
Destruction of Hittite kingdom
RED -
Period: 1200 BCE to 1150 BCE
Destruction of Mycenaean centers
PURPLE -
1150 BCE
Philistines settle southern coast of Israel
PINK -
Period: 1045 BCE to 250 BCE
Zhou dynasty
YELLOW (continues to 221BCE) -
1000 BCE
Iron metallurgy reaches the Mediterranean
PURPLE -
1000 BCE
Jerusalem made Israelite capital
PINK -
1000 BCE
Origin of Celtic culture in Central Europe
BLUE -
1000 BCE
Initial development of pastoral nomadism
YELLOW -
Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE
The Emergence of Human Communities
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969 BCE
Hiram of Tyre comes to power
PINK -
960 BCE
Solomon builds First Temple
PINK -
920 BCE
Division into two kingdoms of Israel and Judah
PINK -
911 BCE
Rise of Neo-Assyrian Empire
RED -
814 BCE
Foundation of Carthage
PURPLE -
750 BCE
Kings of Kush control Egypt
GREEN -
721 BCE
Assyrian conquest of northern kingdom
RED -
Period: 712 BCE to 660 BCE
Nubian kings rule Egypt
GREEN -
701 BCE
Assyrian humiliation of Tyre
RED -
701 BCE
Assyrian humiliation of Tyre
RED & PINK -
700 BCE
Scythians drive out Cimmerians and settle area north of Black Sea
YELLOW -
671 BCE
Assyrian conquest of Egypt
RED & GREEN -
Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE
Neo- Babylonian kingdom
RED -
612 BCE
Fall of Assyria
RED -
600 BCE
Iron metallurgy in China
YELLOW -
587 BCE
Capture of Jerusalem
PINK -
Period: 551 BCE to 479 BCE
Life of Confucius
YELLOW -
Period: 550 BCE to 300 BCE
Rivalry of Carthaginians and Greeks in the western Mediterranean
PURPLE -
515 BCE
Deportees from Babylon return to Jerusalem
RED -
500 BCE
Celtic elites trade for Mediterranean goods
PURPLE -
Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE
Migrations across Europe
BLUE -
450 BCE
Hanno the Phoenician explores West Africa
GREEN -
450 BCE
Completion of Hebrew Bible
PINK -
440 BCE
Greek historian Herodotus reports on nomadic Scythians
PURPLE -
390 BCE
Celts sack Rome
BLUE -
Period: 356 BCE to 338 BCE
Lord Shang brings Legalist reforms to Qin state
YELLOW -
300 BCE
Ruler of Chinese state of Zhao equips troops like nomad horsemen
YELLOW -
Period: 300 BCE to 250 BCE
Kingdom of Meroë
GREEN
(contines until 350 CE)