Unit One Timeline

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  • 11,700 BCE

    11700 B.C.

    End of the ice age
  • 10,000 BCE

    10000 B.C.

    Beginning of agriculture - fertile crescent
  • 5000 BCE

    5000 B.C.

    Irrigation and agriculture begin in Mesopotamia.
  • 4500 BCE

    4500-1900 B.C.

    SUMERIANS
    invented cuneiform writing (one of the oldest forms of writing)
    Developed first city-states
  • 2750 BCE

    2750 B.C.

    First Sumerian Dynasty of Ur
  • 2700 BCE

    EGYPTIAN KINGDOMS 2700-2200 B.C.

    Old Kingdom
  • 2540 BCE

    2540 B.C.

    The Great Pyramid, powerful symbol of the old kingdom
  • 2500 BCE

    2500 B.C.

    First Dynasty of Lagash under King Eannutum is first empire in Mesopotamia
  • 2334 BCE

    2334 B.C.

    Sargon of Akkad (the Great) reigns over Mesopotamia and creates the world's first empire
  • 2150 BCE

    2150 B.C.

    The tale of Gilgamesh is written
  • 2100 BCE

    2100 B.C.

    Ziggurats are being seen used in more and more cities
  • 2055 BCE

    EGYPTIAN KINGDOMS 2055-1650 B.C.

    Middle Kingdom
  • 2038 BCE

    2038 B.C.

    King Shulgi builds his great wall in Sumer
  • 1795 BCE

    1795 B.C.

    Reign of Hammurabi, king of Babylon.
  • 1792 BCE

    1792 B.C.

    King Hammurabi builds walls of Babylon
  • 1772 BCE

    1772 B.C.

    CODE OF HAMMURABI, the first code of law in the world, made to set structure and an attempt to remove revenge.
  • 1755 BCE

    1755 B.C.

    Hammurabi rules Mesopotamia from Babylon.
  • 1550 BCE

    EGYPTIAN KINGDOMS 1550-1070 B.C.

    New Kingdom
  • 1500 BCE

    1500 B.C.

    Egyptian empire extends down to the Euphrates
  • 539 BCE

    539 B.C.

    Fall of Babylon