Thinking About Chronology By AfreenS101 3500 BCE Beginning of Sumerian, Egyptian, and Norte Chico civilizations 3400 BCE Nubian kingdom of Ta-Seti 3200 BCE Period of independent Sumerian City states 2663 BCE Old Kingdom Egypt High point of Pharoh's power and pyramid building 2200 BCE Beginning of Chinese, Indus Valley, and Central Asian (Oxus) civilizations 2070 BCE Xia Dynasty in China 1999 BCE Epic Gilgamesh Completed 1900 BCE Babylonian Empire 1792 BCE Reign of Hamurabi 1700 BCE Abandonment of Inus Valley Cities 1550 BCE New Kingdom Egypt 1200 BCE Beginnings of Olmec Civilization 1046 BCE Beginnings of the Western Zhou Dynasty 760 BCE Kush Conquest of Egypt 586 BCE Babylonian Conquest if Judah 500 BCE Egypt and Mesopotamia incorporated into Persian Empire 221 BCE China's first Emperor - Qin Shihuangdi Burnt books and scholars in effort to unify China for writing brought political conflict