Thinking About Chronology

By 12k_Avery
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Rise of Sumer (Mesopotamia)

    An early civilization in southern Mesopotamia, where the first written language is created and monumental temples and city-states are established.
  • 3100 BCE

    Unification of Egypt

    Narmer brings together Upper and Lower Egypt to begin centralized rule by Pharaohs, marking the start of divine kingship in Egypt.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Norte Chico

    Twenty-five urban centers arise on the Peruvian coast. This civilization mainly consist of fishing and trading.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Indus Valley Civilization

    Cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro has advanced planning AND a form of writing. But environmental decline leads to the civilization's collapse
  • 2200 BCE

    First Civilization in China

    Three dynasties began centralizing power with the establishment of the Huang-ho river valley as a cultural region. Early Chinese states involves central authority, and a writing system.
  • Period: 2200 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Oxus Civilization

    In present day Afghanistan, the Oxus builds forts , uses irrigation and stock raising systems, and has its own type of art and burial systems. Helped inform the practices of its neighbors.
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Hammurabi’s Code

    King Hammurabi creates one of the first written legal systems.
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Egypt Becomes an Imperial State

    Egypt finds stability and land in Africa and Asia, while re-establishing trade and diplomacy.
  • 1200 BCE

    Emergence of the Olmec

    The Olmec emerge in Mexico and produce competing cities from their chiefdom, they also later developed the first recorded language of the Americas