Ancient World civilizations

By Auro965
  • 4000 BCE

    Reigion/Mesopotamia

    The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods.
  • 3500 BCE

    First City/Caral

    Is located along three rivers:the Fortaleza River, Pativilica, and the Super River.
  • 3000 BCE

    Creativity/Mesopotamia

    The Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60.
  • 2700 BCE

    Old kingdom/Egyptian

    The old kingdom was an age of prosperity and unity lasting from about 2700 to 2200 B.C.
  • 2627 BCE

    Pyramids of Caral

    The Pyramid city of Caral is a center constructed out of stone and mud,circular plazas,and staircases.
  • 2600 BCE

    Key features of Egyptian Religion

    The Egyptian ruler took the title ”Son of Re” and was considered an earthly form of Re,one of the sun god´s names.
  • 1700 BCE

    Shang Dynasty/Chinese

    the first Chinese state for which clear written records remain - unites much of north central China.
  • 1200 BCE

    The First Major Mesoamerican Culture/Olmec

    The Olmecs were the first great culture to arise in Mexico and Central America. They established a city on a river island in 1200 B.C. or so: archaeologists, who do not know the original name of the city, call it San Lorenzo.
  • 1046 BCE

    The Mandate of Heaven/Chinese

    The Mandate of Heaven. Among the earliest rulers of China, the Zhou established the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which a just ruler must maintain harmony between heaven and Earth.
  • 900 BCE

    Artists and Sculptors/Olmec

    The Olmecs were extremely talented artists and sculptors: they produced many statues, masks, figurines, stelae, thrones and more
    The heads date from at least 900 BC.
  • 900 BCE

    Art/Chavín

    Chavín art represents the first recognizable artistic style in the Andes, the construction of the “Old Temple” at Chavín de Huántar (c. 900-500 BCE) corresponds to the first of the two phases.
  • 800

    Toltec Empire

    The toltec Empire first emerged in Mesoamerica near modern day Mexico City.This was right after the Teotihuacans had fallen.(800CE)
  • 900

    Location and developed/Chavín

    The Chavín Civilization developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru between 900-250BC
  • 1168

    Toltecs fallen

    The toltecs had fallen due both internal and external conflicts.
  • 1325

    First temple/Aztec

    The city of Tenochtítlan is built and the first Aztec temple was built.(1325CE).
  • 1517

    Aztec comet

    In 1517, a comet was seen in the sky which the Aztecs interpreted as the harbinger of doom and destruction.