Events of the Ancient World civilizations

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  • 30,000 BCE

    Chinese

    Chinese
    The first written records appeared over 3,000 years ago during the Shang dynasty. As the language evolved over this period, the various local varieties became mutually unintelligible. In reaction, central governments have repeatedly sought to promulgate a unified standard.
  • 6500 BCE

    Sumerian

    Sumeria is a historical region of the Middle East, southern part of ancient Mesopotamia, between the alluvial plains of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The Sumerian civilization is considered to be the first civilization in the world.
  • 4000 BCE

    Olmec

    Olmec
    The Olmec Civilization was one of the most influential ancient civilizations of the early Americas, and though its dominance of the region faded in the last centuries before the Common Era, the Olmec civilization is commonly thought to be the “mother culture” of many other cultures that appeared in the region in later
  • 2100 BCE

    Mesopotamian

    Mesopotamia is the name by which the area of ​​the Near East located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is known, although it extends to the fertile areas adjoining the strip between the two rivers, and which roughly coincides with the non-desert areas of the current Iraq and the border area of ​​northern and eastern Syria.
  • 1800 BCE

    Caral

    Caral
    The Caral culture developed between 3000 and 1800 BC. C. (Late Archaic and Lower Formative) that is, it was contemporary with other primitive civilizations such as those of Egypt, India, Sumeria, China, but unlike them (which exchanged their achievements), it developed in complete isolation. In America, it is the oldest of the pre-Hispanic civilizations, surpassing the Olmec civilization by 1500 years, another important civilizational focus located in Mesoamerica
  • 1521 BCE

    Aztec

    Aztec
    The origin of the Mexica refers to the different theories proposed about the place of origin of the ancestors of the ancient Mexica who came to found the Triple Alliance that was the embryo of the Aztec empire.
  • 1168 BCE

    Toltec

    Toltec
    The Toltec were a Mesoamerican civilization that was located in central Mexico from about 900 to 1168. They are an important civilization in the history of Mesoamerican culture because many different later societies in the same area considered the Toltec to be an example of the height of craftsmanship and civilization

  • Egyptian

    Egypt, a country that links northeast Africa with the Middle East, dates from the period of the pharaohs. It has millennia-old monuments nestled alongside the fertile Nile River Valley, including the colossal Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx, as well as the tombs of the Valley of the Kings and the hieroglyph-lined Karnak Temple in Luxor. In the capital, Cairo, there are Ottoman monuments, such as the Mosque of Muhammad Ali and the Egyptian Museum, a treasure trove of antiquities

  • Chavin

    Chavin
    The Chavín culture is an extinct, pre-Columbian civilization, named for Chavín de Huántar, the principal archaeological site at which its artifacts have been found. The culture developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru from 900 BCE to 200 BCE. It extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast.