Early Civilizations

By bMelton
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 2330 BCE

    Sumerian control of Fertile Crescent

  • 3100 BCE

    Ancient Egypts unified by Menes/Narmer

  • 2600 BCE

    Indus Valley civs develop

  • Period: 2575 BCE to

    Egypt Old Kingdom

  • 2570 BCE

    King Khufu's pyramid is started

  • 2500 BCE

    Epic of Gilgamesh

  • Period: 2329 BCE to 2100 BCE

    Akkadian control of FC

  • 2300 BCE

    Sargon the Great and the Akkadian empire rises

  • Period: 2100 BCE to 1766 BCE

    Sage Age of China

  • Period: 2099 BCE to 1900 BCE

    Sumerian control of FC

  • Period: 1989 BCE to 1792 BCE

    Assyrian control of FC

  • Period: 1938 BCE to 1630 BCE

    Egypt Middle Kingdom

  • 1900 BCE

    Indus Valley declines/Aryans emerge

  • 1790 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

  • Period: 1539 BCE to 1075 BCE

    Egypt New Kingdom

  • 1500 BCE

    Hinduism emerges

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 400 BCE

    Olmecs

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE

    Indian Vedic period

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1027 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

  • 1478 BCE

    Hatshepsut rule

  • 1450 BCE

    Egyptian empire peaks

  • 1353 BCE

    Ahmonhotep/Akhenaton rule

  • 1332 BCE

    Tutankhamun rules

  • Period: 1026 BCE to 256 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

  • 551 BCE

    Confucius born

  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

  • Period: 202 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty

  • Period: 200 to 900

    Mayan empire (height)

  • Period: 1200 to 1572

    Incan empire

  • Period: 1200 to 1521

    Aztec empire