CHAPTER 2: Thinking About Chronology By sangggg345 Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Beginning of Sumerian Civilization (Mesopotamia) Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE Beginning of Egyptian Civilization Period: 2663 BCE to 2195 BCE Old Kingdom (Egypt – pyramids, peak of pharaoh power) Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE Indus Valley & Oxus Civilizations Begin Period: 2200 BCE to 2000 BCE Beginning of Chinese Civilization Period: 2070 BCE to 1660 BCE Xia Dynasty (China) 2000 BCE Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa Flourish (Indus Valley) ca.2000 2000 BCE Epic of Gilgamesh Compiled (Mesopotamia) ca.2000 1775 BCE Code of Hammurabi (Babylon, Mesopotamia) ca.1775 1770 BCE Decline of Indus Valley & Oxus Civilizations ca.1770 Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE Shang Dynasty (China) Period: 1550 BCE to 1064 BCE New Kingdom (Egypt) 1500 BCE Expansion of Egyptian Empire ca.1500 1200 BCE Beginnings of Olmec Civilization (Mesoamerica) Period: 1046 BCE to 771 BCE Zhou Dynasty (China – Mandate of Heaven) Period: 900 BCE to 612 Assyrian Empire (Mesopotamia) 899 BCE Olmec Writing System Developed (Mesoamerica) ca.900 Period: 760 BCE to 660 BCE Kush Conquest of Egypt 500 BCE Persian Empire Established (Mesopotamia/Iran) ca.500