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Period: 2900 BCE to 2300 BCE
Sumer
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2600 BCE
Beginning of the Old Kingdom in Egypt
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Period: 2600 BCE to 2150 BCE
The Old Kingdom in Egypt
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Period: 2300 BCE to 2150 BCE
Akkadian Empire
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Period: 2150 BCE to 2000 BCE
The First Intermediate Period in Egypt
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Period: 2100 BCE to 2000 BCE
Third Dynasty of Ur
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Period: 2025 BCE to 1754 BCE
Old Assyrian Empire
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Period: 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE
The Middle Kingdom in Egypt
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Period: 1800 BCE to 1600 BCE
Old Babylonian Empire
Amorite Dynasty is the first dynasty of Babylon. They do not assimilate to Babylonian culture. Notable figures: Hammurabi. -
Period: 1800 BCE to 1550 BCE
Second Intermediate Period in Egypt
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Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE
Hittite Empire
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1155 BCE
Kassite Dynasty
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Period: 1500 BCE to 1300 BCE
Mitanni Kingdom
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Period: 1365 BCE to 900 BCE
Middle Assyrian Empire
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1200 BCE
Late Bronze Age Collapse
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750 BCE
Archaic Period begins in Greece
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Period: 750 BCE to 609 BCE
Neo-Assyrian Empire
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Period: 678 BCE to 549 BCE
Medean Empire
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Period: 605 BCE to 539 BCE
Neo-Babylonian Empire
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Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE
Achaemenid Persia
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480 BCE
Second Persian Invasion
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323 BCE
Death of Alexander the Great
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146 BCE
Destruction of Corinth and Carthage