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9000 BCE
9000 BCE
Hunter-gatherers in the Middle East and North Africa are collecting wild grains;the herders will be called the Zargo's Mountains around the modern Iran-Iraq border beginning to herd flocks of wild goats and sheep -
4500 BCE
4500 BCE
This is the time when Potter wheels, sails and ploughs are made along the Tigris and Euphrates. Small villages start turning into cities. -
3500 BCE
3500 BCE
Pictographs start to be used in Egypt and Mesopotamia. Grass land in North Africa is drying up, the Sahara desert is getting bigger. Many nomads are moving to the land along the Nile river. -
2630 BCE
2630 BCE
Djoser becomes Pharoh. The first pyramid is built by Imhotep -
2528 BCE
2528 BCE
The Pharaoh Khufu ( Cheops ) is buried in the first and largest pyramids at Giza -
2134 BCE
2134 BCE
Central rule fails in Egypt. Local rulers struggle for power -
1333 BCE
1333 BCE
9 year old Tutankhamen becomes Pharaoh. Egypt goes back to the worship of aumun -
332 BCE
334-332 BCE
Alexand the great of Macedon takes over Egypt, Persia, Samarkand and Babylon. When he died his general Ptolemy seizes power in Gupta. Mesopotamia as well go by Greek rules for another to centuries. -
51 BCE
51 BCE
Cleopatra who was a descendant of Ptolemy, becomes queen of Egypt -
30 BCE
30 BCE
Cleopatra dies;Egypt becomes a province of the Roman Empire