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Period: 2500 BCE to 500 BCE
The Emergence of Human Communities
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Period: 2500 BCE to 2134 BCE
Old Kingdom Egypt
[Africa (blue)] This event begins 2575 BCE but because of the timeline it starts at 2500. -
Period: 2350 BCE to 2230 BCE
Akkadian (Semitic)
[Mesopotamian] red -
Period: 2112 BCE to 2004 BCE
Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian)
[Mesopotamia] red -
Period: 2040 BCE to 1640 BCE
Middle Kingdom reigns in Egypt
[Africa] blue -
2000 BCE
Rise of Minoan civilization on Crete; early Greeks arrive in Greece
[Mediterranean] -
2000 BCE
Horses in use spreads all over western
[Asian] -
Period: 1900 BCE to 1600 BCE
Old Babylonian (Semitic)
[Mesopotamian] red -
1800 BCE
Abraham migrated to Canaan
[Middle Eastern] -
Period: 1750 BCE to 1045 BCE
Shang dynasty
[Asian] green -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE
Hittites dominant in Anatolia
[Mediterranean] orange -
Period: 1640 BCE to 1532 BCE
Hyksos dominate northern Egypt
[Africa (blue)] -
1600 BCE
Rise of Mycenaean civilization in Greece
[Mediterranean] -
1532 BCE
Beginning of New Kingdom
[Africa] -
1500 BCE
Hittites develop iron metallurgy
[Mesopotamia] -
Period: 1500 BCE to 1150 BCE
Kassite ruled in Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian red -
1450 BCE
Destruction of Minoan palaces in Crete
[Mediterranean] -
Period: 1250 BCE to 1200 BCE
Israelite occupation of Canaan
Middle Eastern purple -
1200 BCE
Destruction of Hittite kingdom
(Mesopotamian) -
Period: 1200 BCE to 1150 BCE
Destruction of Mycenaean centers in Greece
[Mediterranean] orange -
1150 BCE
Philistines settle southern coast of Israel
[Middle Eastern] -
1000 BCE
Iron metallurgy reaches the Mediterranean
[Mediterranean] -
1000 BCE
Origin of Celtic culture in Central
Europe -
1000 BCE
Initial development of pastoral nomadism
[Asian] -
1000 BCE
Jerusalem made Israelite capital
Middle Eastern -
969 BCE
Hiram of Tyre comes to power
Middle Eastern -
960 BCE
Solomon builds First Temple
[Middle Eastern] -
920 BCE
Division into two kingdoms of Israel and Judah
[Middle Eastern] -
911 BCE
Rise of Neo-Assyrian Empire
Mesopotamian -
814 BCE
Foundation of Carthage
[Mediterranean] -
750 BCE
Kings of Kush control
[Africa] -
721 BCE
Assyrian conquest of northern kingdom
(Mesopotamian) -
Period: 712 BCE to 660 BCE
Nubian kings rule Egypt
[Africa] blue -
701 BCE
Assyrian humiliation of Tyre
(Mesopotamian) -
701 BCE
Assyrian humiliation of Tyre
[Mesopotamian and Middle Eastern] -
700 BCE
Scythians drive out Cimmerians and settle area north of Black Sea
[Asian] -
671 BCE
Assyrian conquest of Egypt
[Mesopotamia] -
Period: 626 BCE to 539
Neo- Babylonian kingdom
(Mesopotamian) red -
612 BCE
Fall of Assyria
[Mesopotamia] -
600 BCE
Iron metallurgy in China
[Asian] -
587 BCE
Capture of Jerusalem
[Middle East] -
Period: 551 BCE to 500 BCE
Life of Confucius
[Asian] green. This event goes from 551-479 BCE but for the timline it stops at 500 BCE. -
Period: 550 BCE to 500 BCE
Rivalry of Carthaginians and Greeks in the western
[Mediterranean] orange (event spans from 550-300 BCE however this timeline ends at 500 BCE) -
515 BCE
Deportees from Babylon return to Jerusalem
(Mesopotamian) -
500 BCE
Celtic elites trade for Mediterranean goods
[Mediterranean] -
Period: 500 BCE to 500 BCE
Migrations across Europe
[Europe] yellow This event goes until 300 BCE but because of the timeline, it only goes until 500 BCE. -
Period: 1045 to 500
Zhou dynasty
[Aisian(china)] green the event goes from 1045-221 BCE but for this timeline it goes until 500 BCE.