Thinking About Chronology - Chapter 2

By msarwadi
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Earliest civilizations emerged

    Early civilizations in three major places started to appear: Sumer, Egypt, and Coastal Peru (Norte Chico)
  • 2500 BCE

    Rise of the Minoan civilization

    The Minoan civilization emerged on the island of Crete
  • Period: 2350 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Akkadians

  • 2300 BCE

    Mesopotamia & Egypt Trade Relations

    Sumerian merchants established seaborne contact with the Indus Valley civilization
  • 2200 BCE

    Earliest Chinese civilization

    Beginning of Chinese civilization
  • Period: 2200 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Central Asian/Oxus Civilization

  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Xia Dynasty

  • 2000 BCE

    Emergence of the Indus Valley Civilization

  • 2000 BCE

    Emergence of the city Mohenjo Daro

  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Babylonians

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

  • 1200 BCE

    Olmec Civilization

    The final First Civilization
  • 1200 BCE

    Use of Chariot Technology

    The Use of Chariot Technology and Bronze metallurgy started to spread by 1200 BCE
  • Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

  • Period: 900 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrians

  • 760 BCE

    Nubian kingdom of Kush invaded Egypt