History Of The World - Kletter

By HeyCody
  • 5000 BCE

    Sumer form first towns/cities

    Used irrigation for farming.
  • 4000 BCE

    Sumer city/states become powerful

    Sumer starts to build large ziggurats in center of cities to honor main g-d of city.
  • 3500 BCE

    Sumer city/states created in lower Mesopotamia

    Including Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
  • 3300 BCE

    Sumerians invent writing

    Used pictures for words - carved in clay tablets.
  • 3200 BCE

    Sumerians invent the wheel

    Sumerians started to use wheels on vehicles.
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 332 BCE

    Entirety of Ancient Egypt

  • 3000 BCE

    Sumerians start to use mathematics

    Sumerians used number system involving base 60.
  • 2700 BCE

    Sumerian King Gilgamesh rules Ur

    The famous King Gilgamesh rules the city/state of Ur.
  • Period: 2686 BCE to

    Egyptian Old Kingdom

  • 2400 BCE

    Sumerian replaced by Akkadian

    Sumerian language was replaced by the Akkadian language as the primary language in mesopotamia.
  • 2330 BCE

    Sargon 1 creates Akkadian Empire

    Sargon 1 of Akkadians conquer most Sumerian city/states and creates Akkadian Empire (world's first).
  • Period: 2250 BCE to 2200 BCE

    King Naram-Sin expands Akkadian Empire

    King Naram-Sin of Akkadians expands Empire to largest state. Rules for 50 years.
  • 2100 BCE

    Sumerians gain power again

    Akkadian Empire falls and Sumerians gain power again. The city/state Ur is rebuilt.
  • Period: 2050 BCE to 1652 BCE

    Egyptian Middle Kingdom

  • 2000 BCE

    Elamites capture Ur.

    The Elamites capture city/state of Ur.
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE

    Egyptian New Kingdom

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Blessings and songs

    Blessings and songs, such as The Song of Miriam
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE

    Books

    The Torah, the J source; Ruth; Job; First Isaiah; some minor prophets; first version of the history books of Deuteronomy
  • Period: 800 BCE to 500

    Ancient Greece

  • Period: 586 BCE to 539 BCE

    Books Continued

    Second Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Deuteronomy is expanded; Psalms
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Rest of Books

    Rest of Torah; Third Isaiah; later prophets; Chronicles re-writes story of David to make it sound nicer