Unit 1

  • 10,000 BCE

    End of Paleolithic Age

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Neolithic Age

  • 6000 BCE

    Use of Metals

  • 4000 BCE

    Bronze Invention

  • 3500 BCE

    Civilizations emerge

  • 3100 BCE

    Start of Egypt

  • 3000 BCE

    Sumerians established many cities

  • 3000 BCE

    Invention of Wheel

  • 3000 BCE

    Cuneiform

    start of history
    (end of pre-history)
    now written record
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2340 BCE

    Sumerians

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Bronze Age

  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2200 BCE

    Egypt Old Kingdom

  • 2340 BCE

    Akkadians take over

    leader-Sargon
  • Period: 2340 BCE to 2100 BCE

    Akkadians

  • 2100 BCE

    Epic of Gilgamesh

  • Period: 2050 BCE to 1652 BCE

    Egypt Middle Kingdom

  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Babylon

    leader- Hammurabi
  • 1771 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

  • Period: 1652 BCE to 1567 BCE

    Hyksos Invasion

  • Period: 1567 BCE to 1085 BCE

    New Kingdom

  • 1200 BCE

    Iron