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  • 5000 BCE

    5000 BCE

    5000 BCE
    5000 BC - The Sumer form the first towns and cities. They use irrigation to farm large areas of land.
  • 5000 BCE

    rising of cities

    rising of cities
  • 4000 BCE

    4000 BCE

    4000 BCE
    4000 BC - The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods.
  • 3300 BCE

    3300 BCE

    3300 BCE
    3300 BC - The Sumerians invent the first writing. They use pictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets.
  • Period: 3050 BCE to 332 BCE

    egypt

  • 3000 BCE

    3000 BCE

    3000 BCE
    3000 BC - The Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60.
  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2055 BCE

    old kingdom

  • 2400 BCE

    2400 BCE

    2400 BCE
    2400 BC - The Sumerian language is replaced by the Akkadian language as the primary spoken language in Mesopotamia.
  • 2100 BCE

    2100 BCE

    2100 BCE
    2100 BC - After the Akkadian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again gain power. The city of Ur is rebuilt.
  • Period: 2030 BCE to 1650 BCE

    middle kingdom

  • 2000 BCE

    2000 BCE

    2000 BCE
    2000 BC - The Elamites capture Ur.
  • 2000 BCE

    elimites capture Ur

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1050 BCE

    shang Dynasty

    Capitals: near present-day Zhengzhou and Anyang
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE

    new kingdom

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 500 BCE

    Ancient Greece

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 1000

    Blessings and songs

    such as the song of Miriam
  • Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE

    zhou Dynasty

    Capitals: Hao (near present-day Xi'an) and Luoyang
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 600

    Torah

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE

    the torah -j source

    Ruth, job, first isaiah
  • Period: 800 BCE to 500

    ancient Greece

  • Period: 586 BCE to 539 BCE

    second isaiah

    Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Deuteronomy is expanded, Psalms
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    The rest of the torah

    Third Isaiah, Later Prophets, chronicles re-writes story of David to make it sound louder
  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    qin Dynasty

    Capital: Chang'an, present-day Xi'an
  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    han Dynasty

    Confucianism officially established as basis for Chinese state by Han Wudi (r. 141-86 BCE)