4000 B.C.E - 0 C.E By nickycc1 Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Beginning of Egyptian civilization Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Beginning of Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Norte Chico civilizations Period: 3400 BCE to 3200 BCE Nubian Kingdom of Ta-Seti Period: 3200 BCE to 2350 BCE Period of Independent Sumerian city-states Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE Old Kingdom Egypt High point of pharaoh's power and pyramid building Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE Beginnings of Chinese, Indus Valley, And Central Asian (Oxus) Civilizations Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE Xia Dynasty in China Traditionally seen as first dynasty of Chinese history 2000 BCE Epic of Gilgamesh complied After 2000 B.C.E Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE Babylonian Empire Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE Reign of Hammurabi 1700 BCE Abandonment of Indus Valley cities Period: 1550 BCE to 1064 BCE New Kingdom Egypt 1200 BCE Beginnings of Olmec civilization Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE Kush conquest of Egypt 586 BCE Babylonian conquest of Judah 500 BCE Egypt and Mesopotamia Incorporated into Persian Empire