Thinking About Chronology

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 1 CE

    Chapter 2 Time span

  • Sumer
    3500 BCE

    Sumer

    Sumer, located in Mesopotamia was one of the first civilizations located in the southern reaches of Mesopotamia. Sumer likely gave rise to developing some of the World's early written language.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Sumer

  • Caral --> Largest City in Norte Chico
    3000 BCE

    Caral --> Largest City in Norte Chico

    Norte Chico was located on the central coast of Peru. Caral was known as the city its largest city. Also known for its rich fishing industry, they used this for trading to receive domesticated crops, cotton, and fishing tools. Their lack of defensive walls demonstrates they had very little warfare in the civilization.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Caral --> Largest City in Norte Chico

  • Indus Valley Civilization
    2200 BCE

    Indus Valley Civilization

    The Indus Valley civilization is located along the Indus Saraswati River, it was larger than other current territories.
    although there was little evidence of political hierarchy or a centeralized state, the civilization was extremely sophisticated and complex with standardized weights, irrigation agriculture, and an undeciphered written language,
  • Oxus Civilization
    2200 BCE

    Oxus Civilization

    The Oxus Civilization had a distinctive cultural style which was characterized by their architecture, ceramics, and more.

    They had no literate culture but art suggests an aristocratic social hierarchy from depictions of god and men through dining in banquets and driving chariots.
  • Period: 2200 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Oxus Civilization

  • Period: 2200 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Indus Valley Civilizations

  • Period: 2200 BCE to 771 BCE

    Early Chinese Civliizations

    The Early Chinese civilizations developed a distinct Chinese political ideology called the Son of Heaven. Those labeled the son of heaven served as a monarch and a channel between heaven and earth. They also developed early forms of writing in Chinese that assisted Chinas rulers and the task of governing.
  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Xia Dynasty

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

  • Olmec Civilization
    1200 BCE

    Olmec Civilization

    the Olmec civilization could be found along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. They had different cultural patterns such as games with a rubber ball, ritual sacrifices, and bloodletting which spread widely.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE

    Olmec Civilization

  • Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty