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Period: 4000 BCE to 2330 BCE
Sumerian control of Fertile Crescent
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3100 BCE
Ancient Egypts unified by Menes/Narmer
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2600 BCE
Indus Valley civs develop
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Period: 2575 BCE to
Egypt Old Kingdom
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2570 BCE
King Khufu's pyramid is started
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2500 BCE
Epic of Gilgamesh
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Period: 2329 BCE to 2100 BCE
Akkadian control of FC
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2300 BCE
Sargon the Great and the Akkadian empire rises
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Period: 2100 BCE to 1766 BCE
Sage Age of China
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Period: 2099 BCE to 1900 BCE
Sumerian control of FC
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Period: 1989 BCE to 1792 BCE
Assyrian control of FC
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Period: 1938 BCE to 1630 BCE
Egypt Middle Kingdom
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1900 BCE
Indus Valley declines/Aryans emerge
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1790 BCE
Code of Hammurabi
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Period: 1539 BCE to 1075 BCE
Egypt New Kingdom
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1500 BCE
Hinduism emerges
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Period: 1500 BCE to 400 BCE
Olmecs
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Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE
Indian Vedic period
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Period: 1500 BCE to 1027 BCE
Shang Dynasty
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1478 BCE
Hatshepsut rule
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1450 BCE
Egyptian empire peaks
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1353 BCE
Ahmonhotep/Akhenaton rule
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1332 BCE
Tutankhamun rules
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Period: 1026 BCE to 256 BCE
Zhou Dynasty
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551 BCE
Confucius born
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Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE
Qin Dynasty
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Period: 202 BCE to 220
Han Dynasty
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Period: 200 to 900
Mayan empire (height)
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Period: 1200 to 1572
Incan empire
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Period: 1200 to 1521
Aztec empire