Thinking About Chronology

By skumar
  • Period: 12,000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Earliest agricultural revolutions

    First attempts at agricultural development across ancient civilizations.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Beginnings of Sumerian and Egyptian civilization

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    The Americas - Norte Chico Civilization

    Start and end of civilization.
  • Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE

    Egypt - Old Kingdom

    High point of pharoah's power and pyramid building.
  • Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Beginnings of Chinese, Indus Valley, and Central Asia Civilizations

  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    China - Xia Dynasty

  • 2000 BCE

    Mesopotamia - Epic of Gilgamesh compiled

  • 2000 BCE

    Indus Valley/Central Asia - Flourishing of the cities of Mohenjo Dara and Harappa

  • 1775 BCE

    Mesopotamia - Code of Hammurabi

  • 1700 BCE

    Indus Valley/Central Asia - Abandonment of Indus Valley and Central Asian cities

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE

    China - Shang Dynasty

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1064 BCE

    Egypt - New Kingdom

  • 1500 BCE

    Egypt - Creation of Egyptian empire

  • 1200 BCE

    The Americas - Beginnings of Olmec civilization

  • Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE

    China - Zhou Dynasty

  • 900 BCE

    The Americas - Writing in Olmec civilization

  • Period: 900 BCE to 612 BCE

    Mesopotamia - Assyrian Empire

    Rise and fall.
  • Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE

    Egypt - Kush conquest

  • 500 BCE

    Mesopotamia - Persian Empire established