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Ancient Egypt

By Amelia.knight
  • Period: 9000 BCE to 30 BCE

    Ancient egypt timeline

  • 1100

    1100 bc

    1100 bc
    Upper Egypt and lower Egypt split.

  • 2200 bc

    2200 bc
    Other kings started to take advantage of and rule Egypt.

  • 2500 bc

    2500 bc
    Pyramids of Giza were built.

  • 2630 bc

    2630 bc
    Djoser becomes pharaoh; first pyramid is built by the architect Imhotep.

  • 2700 bc

    First stone pyramid was built and the pyramids of Giza were starting to get built.

  • 3800 bc

    3800 bc
    In Mesopotamia copper is mixed with arsenic, and later with tin to make their harder metal bronze.

  • 6500 bc

    6500 bc
    The worlds first city, Jericho is built in the Jordan valley with a population of about 2500 people.

  • 7000 bc

    7000 bc
    Flax is grown and spun to make linen cloth. Pigs, sheeps and goats are domesticated.

  • 8000 bc

    8000 bc
    Barley and wheat varieties are domesticated. The first towns grew up around the grain fields.

  • 9000 bc

    9000 bc
    Gatherers in the Middle East and North Africa are collecting wild grains. Zagros mountains around the modern Iran-Iraq begin to herd flocks of wild goats and sheep.