Ancient History and Classical Antiquity
TIMELINE
c. 4000+ BC: Adam and Eve are created
c. 3500 BC: Egyptian calendar* c. 3300 BC: Bronze Age begins in Near East.* c. 3300 BC: Newgrange Ireland.* c. 3300 BC: Indus Valley Civilization begins in the Indian Sub-continent.* c. 3200 BC: Cycladic civilization in Greece.* c. 3200 BC: Norte Chico civilization begins in Peru.* c. 3200 BC: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran.* c. 3100 BC: Skara Brae society in Scotland.* c. 3100 BC: First dynasty of Egypt.* c. 3000 BC: Noah’s ark constructed. c. 3000 BC: Sumerian cuneiform developed. c. 3000 BC: Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in Romania and the Ukraine. 3000 BC: Jiroft civilization begins in Iran. 3000 BC: First known use of papyrus by Egyptians. 2800 BC: Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period in China. 2700 BC: Pharaonic rule in Egypt begins. 2600 BC: Oldest known surviving Sumerian literature was written. 2600 BC: Emergence of Maya culture in the Yucatán Peninsula. 2600 BC: Completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza. 2500 BC: The mammoth goes extinct. 2300 BC: Job lives and suffers many trials. 2200 BC: Completion of Stonehenge. 2070 BC: Yu the Great established the Xia. Dynasty in China. 2000 BC: Domestication of the horse. c. 2000 BC: Abraham called by God out of Ur to begin a new nation. 1800 BC: Alphabetic writing emerges. 1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end. 1600 BC: Minoan civilization on Crete is destroyed by the eruption of Santorini island. 1600 BC: The beginning of Shang Dynasty in China; fully developed writing system. 1600 BC: Beginning of Hittite dominance of the Eastern Mediterranean region. 1500 BC: Composition of the Rigveda is completed. 1400-400 BC: Olmec civilization flourishes in Pre-Columbian Mexico. 1200 BC: The Hallstatt culture exists in Europe. 1200-1150 BC: Bronze Age collapse in Southwestern Asia. 1100 BC: Use of Iron spreads. c. 1180 BC: Disintegration of Hittite Empire. 1046 BC: King Wu of Zhou overthrows Shang Dynasty establishing Zhou Dynasty. c. 1000 BC: The beginning of the Kingdom of Israel occurred with Saul and David. 890 BC: Epic poems “Iliad” and “The Odyssey.” 800 BC: Rise of Greek city-states. |