Ancient Times

By catrose25
  • 40,000 BCE

    Yellow River Valley Civilization

    Began in China
  • 3966 BCE

    Creation

    Time began
  • 3500 BCE

    Sumerian writing

    Sumerians created the first known human writing, cuneiform.
  • 3300 BCE

    Indus Valley

    A civilization in the northwestern parts of South Asia
  • 3100 BCE

    Ancient Egypt

    Egypt had pharaohs as rulers
  • 2310 BCE

    The flood

    Wiped out the earth.
  • 1750 BCE

    Hammurabi king of Amorites

    He wrote the code of law.
  • 1600 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

    The first know Shang Dynasty.
  • 450 BCE

    "The Gift of The Nile"

    Herodotus, a historian, called Egypt "The Gift of The Nile" because the Nile was very helpful to Egypt.
  • 181 BCE

    The Rosetta Stone

    King Ptolemy V had his decree copied on stelae. The Rosetta stone is a copy.