Sophia's Important BCE Dates! By sophiahalsey Period: 100,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE paleolithic era IGNORE 100,000 IT IS 2.5 Mil bce - 10,000 bce 15,000 BCE Lascaux cave paintings 11,000 BCE Neolithic revolution Period: 10,000 BCE to 8000 BCE Mesolithic era Period: 8000 BCE to 3000 BCE neolithic era Period: 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE Catalhoyuk 3400 BCE Development of writing Period: 3300 BCE to 1400 BCE Bronze age 3000 BCE Cuneiform writing Period: 2900 BCE to 2334 BCE Early Dynastic Period of Sumer Period: 2350 BCE to 2279 BCE Akkadian Empire sargon and naram sin Period: 2100 BCE to 1800 BCE Dynasties of Ur and the Amorites ur-nammu and shulgi 1792 BCE Hammurabi Period: 1600 BCE to 1200 BCE Hittites Period: 1392 BCE to 1056 BCE Assyrians