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Ancient History Timeline

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1. The mammoth goes extinct.
3100 BCE
2800 BCE
2500 BCE
1500 BCE

2. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period in China
3100 BCE
1400-400 BCE
2800 BCE
2070 BCE

3. Cycladic civilization in Greece
c. 3000 BCE
1700 BCE
3200 BCE
2600 BCE

4. Pharaonic rule in Egypt begins.
1600 BCE
c. 1180 BCE
800 BCE
2700 BCE

5. Sumerian cuneiform writing system.
1046 BCE
c. 3000 BCE
2800 BCE
2675 BCE

6. Rise of Greek city-states
2600 BCE
3200 BCE
2800 BCE
800 BCE

7. Approximate date for the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey
1600 BCE
890 BCE
2600 BCE
3200 BCE

8. Emergence of Maya culture in the Yucat
2600 BCE
2070 BCE
800 BCE
2070 BCE

9. Mycenaean Greece
1046 BCE
1600 BCE
1700 BCE
1400-400 BCE

10. Jiroft civilization Begins in Iran
2700 BCE
3000 BCE
1020 to 930 BCE
2800 BCE

11. Alphabetic writing emerges
3100 BCE
1800 BCE
2700 BCE
890 BCE

12. The Hallstatt culture
1200 BCE
1600 BCE
3100 BCE
1400-400 BCE

13. Sumerian cuneiform writing system.
3300 BCE
1020 to 930 BCE
c. 3000 BCE
3000 BCE

14. Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the Ukraine
3100 BCE
c. 3000 BCE
1400-400 BCE
3000 BCE

15. Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period in China
2800 BCE
c. 3000 BCE
1600 BCE
1500 BCE

16. Hakra Phase of theIndus Valley Civilization begins in theIndian Sub-continent.
3200 BCE
3200 BCE
2000 BCE
3300 BCE

17. Composition of the Rigveda is completed
3300 BCE
2600 BCE
2800 BCE
1500 BCE

18. Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran
c. 3000 BCE
3200 BCE
3300 BCE
890 BCE

19. Yu the Great established the Xia Dynasty in China
2070 BCE
1020 to 930 BCE
3100 BCE
1400-400 BCE

20. Beginning of Hittite dominance of the Eastern Mediterranean region
2700 BCE
2675 BCE
2000 BCE
1600 BCE

21. Approximate date for the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey
890 BCE
2800 BCE
1020 to 930 BCE
2600 BCE

22. Disintegration of Hittite Empire
2600 BCE
2600 BCE
c. 1180 BCE
2700 BCE

23. Domestication of the horse
2000 BCE
2200 BCE
1700 BCE
2700 BCE

24. King Khufu completes construction of Great Pyramid of Giza.
2675 BCE
2500 BCE
c. 3000 BCE
890 BCE

25. Olmec civilization flourishes in Pre-Columbian Mexico - during Mesoamerica'sFormative period
2675 BCE
3200 BCE
1400-400 BCE
1600 BCE

26. The Zhou force (led by King Wu of Zhou) overthrow the last king of Shang Dynasty; Zhou Dynasty established in China
2800 BCE
2700 BCE
3300 BCE
1046 BCE

27. Skara Brae Scotland
3300 BCE
3200 BCE
3100 BCE
3000 BCE

28. Mature Harappan phase of theIndus Valley civilization (in present-day Pakistan andIndia) begins
2600 BCE
2800 BCE
2800 BCE
1500 BCE

29. Egyptian calendar
3200 BCE
2600 BCE
3200 BCE
Circa 3500 BCE

30. Norte Chico civilization begins in Peru
2200 BCE
3200 BCE
1020 to 930 BCE
3100 BCE

31. Egyptian calendar
3300 BCE
Circa 3500 BCE
3300 BCE
3300 BCE

32. Mycenaean Greece
3200 BCE
1400-400 BCE
1600 BCE
2600 BCE

33. Newgrange Ireland
2070 BCE
3300 BCE
2600 BCE
3000 BCE

34. First known use of papyrus by Egyptians
3000 BCE
2700 BCE
3300 BCE
1600 BCE

35. The Zhou force (led by King Wu of Zhou) overthrow the last king of Shang Dynasty; Zhou Dynasty established in China
c. 3000 BCE
1046 BCE
1200 BCE
1400-400 BCE

36. Kot Diji phase of theIndus Valley Civilization begins
2500 BCE
890 BCE
3200 BCE
2800 BCE

37. First dynasty of Egypt
3100 BCE
1600 BCE
2600 BCE
c. 3000 BCE

38. Rise of Elam in Iran
3200 BCE
800 BCE
3200 BCE
2700 BCE

39. Beginning of Hittite dominance of the Eastern Mediterranean region
1800 BCE
1600 BCE
3200 BCE
c. 1180 BCE

40. Olmec civilization flourishes in Pre-Columbian Mexico - during Mesoamerica'sFormative period
1400-400 BCE
2600 BCE
2800 BCE
2700 BCE

41. The mammoth goes extinct.
3200 BCE
2500 BCE
1200 BCE
3300 BCE

42. King Khufu completes construction of Great Pyramid of Giza.
1600 BCE
1800 BCE
2700 BCE
2675 BCE

43. Rise of Greek city-states
1046 BCE
2675 BCE
800 BCE
2600 BCE

44. Completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
c. 1180 BCE
3000 BCE
1700 BCE
2600 BCE

45. The beginning of Shang Dynasty in China - evidence of a fully developed Chinese writing system
1046 BCE
1600 BCE
2800 BCE
2700 BCE

46. Newgrange Ireland
2700 BCE
3300 BCE
2600 BCE
2000 BCE

47. Bronze Age begins in the Near East
2600 BCE
3300 BCE
2200 BCE
1600 BCE

48. Minoan Civilization ancient palace city Knossos reach 80000 inhabitants
3000 BCE
800 BCE
c. 3000 BCE
2700 BCE

49. First dynasty of Egypt
c. 3000 BCE
2800 BCE
2700 BCE
3100 BCE

50. Minoan Civilization ancient palace city Knossos reach 80000 inhabitants
3300 BCE
2070 BCE
3000 BCE
2700 BCE