Thinking About Chronology

By yuvakshik
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    earliest civiliizations emerged

    beginning of the Sumerian civilization
    beginning of the Egyptian civilization
  • 3000 BCE

    Quipu in use in Norte Chico

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Norte Chico civilization

  • Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE

    Old kingdom; the high point of pharaoh's power and pyramid building

  • Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE

    begininning of civilizations

    beginning of Chinese civilization
    beginning of civilization in the Indus valley and central Asia (Oxus valley)
  • Period: 2070 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Xia dynasty

  • 2000 BCE

    the Epic of Gilgamesh was compiled

  • 2000 BCE

    flourishing of the cities of mohenjo dara and harappa

  • 1775 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi was established

  • 1699 BCE

    abandonment of Indus valleu and central asian cities

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE

    Shang dynasty

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1062 BCE

    New Kingdom

  • 1500 BCE

    creation of egyptian empire

  • 1200 BCE

    Beginnings of Olmec civilization

  • Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE

    Zhou dynasty

  • 900 BCE

    writing in Olmec civilization

  • Period: 900 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrian empire was established

  • Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE

    Kush conquest of Egypt

  • 500 BCE

    Persian Empire was established