History

Ancient Everything

  • Period: 5000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    First cities and towns

    The Sumer form the first towns and cities. They use irrigation to farm large areas of land.
  • 4000 BCE

    4000 BCE

    4000 BCE
    The Sumer created powerful cities and states by building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods.
  • 3500 BCE

    3500 BCE

    3500 BCE
    Much of lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by a lot of Sumer city-states like Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash, and Nippur.
  • 3300 BCE

    3300 BCE

    3300 BCE
    The Sumerians invented the first writing. They used pictures for words and wrote them on clay tablets.
  • 3200 BCE

    3200 BCE

    3200 BCE
    The Sumerians began to use wheels on vehicles.
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 332 BCE

    All of Ancient Eygpt

  • 3000 BCE

    3000 BCE

    3000 BCE
    The Sumerians start to invent math using a number system with the base 60.
  • 2700 BCE

    2700 BCE

    2700 BCE
    The famous Sumerian King Gilgamesh ruled the city/state of Ur.
  • Period: 2686 BCE to 2134 BCE

    Old Kingdom

  • 2400 BCE

    2400 BCE

    2400 BCE
    The Sumerian language is replaced by Akkadian as the most spoken language in Mesopotamia.
  • Period: 2050 BCE to 1652 BCE

    Middle Kingdom

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1050 BCE

    Shang Dynasty

  • Period: 1570 BCE to 1070 BCE

    New Kingdom

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Blessing and songs

    Blessings and songs, such as the song of Miriam
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 500

    Ancient Greece

  • Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 600 BCE

    The Torah

    The J source; Ruth; Job; First Isaiah; some minor prophets; first version of history books of Deuteronomy.
  • Period: 586 BCE to 539 BCE

    Other Torah

    Second Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; Deuteronomy is expanded; Plsams
  • Period: 500 BCE to 300 BCE

    Other, Other Torah

    The rest of the Torah; Third Isaiah; Later Prophets; Chronicles re-writes story of David to make it sound nicer
  • Period: 221 BCE to 206 BCE

    Qin Dynasty

  • Period: 206 BCE to 220

    Han Dynasty