Chapter 2 AP World

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Norte Chico civilizations began

  • Period: 3400 BCE to 3200 BCE

    The Nubian kingdom of Ta-Seti began

  • Period: 3200 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Independent period of Sumerian city-states

  • Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE

    The Old Kingdom of Egypt

  • Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Chinese, Indus Valley, and Oxus civilizations began

  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Xia dynasty in China

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1 BCE

    Epic of Gilgamesh completed

  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Reign of Hammurabi

  • 1700 BCE

    Abandonment of Indus Valley cities

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1064 BCE

    New Kingdom in Egypt

  • 1200 BCE

    Olmec civilization began

  • Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE

    Kush conquest of Egypt

  • Period: 660 BCE to 500 BCE

    Egypt and Mesopotamia incorporated

  • 586 BCE

    Babylonian conquest of Judah