| Civilization |
| BCE 7,000 | Iraq | settlement at Jarmo; crude mud house; goats, sheep, pigs herded; wheat grown from seed. |
| BCE 6,000 | ???? | Evidence of weaving |
| BCE 6,000 | Mesapotamia | Babylon to Persian gulf settled by farmers from north. |
| BCE 5,500 | Mesapotamia | First irrigation used |
| BCE 5,500 | Mesapotamia | Fine Pottery invented |
| BCE 5,500 | Mesapotamia | Trade begins from Persian Gulf to Meditterean |
| BCE 5000 | Middle East | Irrigation used |
| BCE 5000-4001 | EGYPT | Calendar devised. Regulated by sun and moon; 360 days; 12 30-day months. |
| BCE 4000 | ???? | Copper smelted to make tools |
| BCE 4000 | EGYPT | Sails are used |
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| BCE 3500 | ??? | Bronze used for tools, weapons, armor, and art |
| BCE 3500 | Mesapotania | Wheel used in Mesapotaniua |
| BCE 3500 | Sumeria | Writing first appears. |
| BCE 3300 | EGYPT | First walled towns are built. |
| BCE 3200 | EGYPT | Earliest Hieroglyphic script appears. |
| BCE 3100-2686 | EGYPT | Early Dynastic Period |
| BCE 3100 | EGYPT | United Egypt nation, Capital at Memphis |
| BCE 3100 | EGYPT | Systematic Astronomical observations begin |
| BCE 3050 | EGYPT | Introduce 365 day calendar |
| BCE 3000 | China | Abacus invented |
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| BCE 2800 | Egypt | Devised 12 month calendar |
| BCE 2737 | China | Tea invented by Emperor Shen Nung |
| BCE 2686-2160 | EGYPT | Old Kingdom of Egypt |
| BCE 2667-2648 | EGYPT | Begin using medical as well as religious methods to treat disease. |
| BCE 2650 | EGYPT | Begin pyramid building |
| BCE 2575 | EGYPT | built largest Pyramid at Giza |
| BCE 2550 | EGYPT | Great Sphinx is carved |
| BCE 2500-2001 | EGYPT | divided day into 24 units/hours; First Mummification; Isis & Osiris deified |
| BCE 2375-2300 | EGYPT | Pyramid Texts - oldest known religious writing |
| BCE 2160-2055 | EGYPT | First Intermediate Period |
| BCE 2150 | EGYPT | Series of floods and famines led to collapse of old Kingdom. |
| BCE 2065-1650 | EGYPT | Middle Kingdom |
| BCE 2055 | EGYPT | reunited nation under pharaohs |
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| BCE 1991 | EGYPT | Book of the Dead collected "The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day" |
| BCE 1965 | EGYPT | Nubia/Sudan conquered |
| BCE 1800 | EGYPT | horse is introduced |
| BCE 1700-1500 | EGYPT | Biblical Joseph in Egypt |
| BCE 1650-1550 | EGYPT | Second Intermediate Period |
| BCE 1660 | EGYPT | Invasion of Semetic Hyksos from Palestine, Syria, and north. They are excellent archers, wear sandals, and use horse drawn chariots to conquer the Nile Delta. |
| BCE 1550-1069 | EGYPT | New Kingdom |
| BCE 1567 | EGYPT | Expulsion of Hyksos by Ahmose |
| BCE 1550 | EGYPT | New Kingdom. Capital at Thebes. 500 yrs stability. |
| BCE 1550 | Egypt | First Medical Textbook |
| BCE 1473 | EGYPT | Queen Hatshepsut rules |
| BCE 1479 | EGYPT | Thutmose III. Wipes out work of Hatshepsut, his stepmother. |
| BCE 1470 | EGYPT | Island of Thera- massive volcano-may have wiped out Minoans on Crete |
| BCE 1352-1336 | EGYPT | Pharaoh Amenhoptep IV- sun worship - monotheism. Religious reforms |
| BCE 1336-1327 | EGYPT | King Tut (Tutankhamun) tomb opened 1922. |
| BCE 1295-1200 | EGYPT | Jewish Exodus from Egypt |
| BCE 1286 | EGYPT | Battles Hittites in Syria. Ramses II marries Hittite princess. |
| BCE 1279-1213 | EGYPT | Ramses II ( exodus??) |
| BCE 1245 | EGYPT | Ramses II moves capital to Pi-Ramesses |
| BCE 1153 | EGYPT | Death Ramses III, last great pharaoh |
| BCE 1100 | ???? | Iron is discovered |
| BCE 1070 | EGYPT | End 20th dynasty |
| BCE 1069-664 | Egypt> | Third intermediate Period |
| BCE 1005-967 | Israel | Reign of King David; Jeruselem capital
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| BCE 967-931 | Israel | Reign of King Solomon
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| BCE 945 | Egypt | Civil wars, Libyan Dynasty rules for 200 years.
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| BCE 814 | Phoenicia | Founding Carthage
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| BCE 753 | Rome | Founding of Rome-traditional date
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| BCE 747 | Egypt | Ruled by Nubians
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| BCE 700 | | Man-made Sundials |
| BCE 671 | Egypt | Assyrian King Esarhaddon captures Egypt and installs vassal ruler. |
| BCE 670 | Egypt | Begin Iron working
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| BCE 664-332 | Egypt | Late Period |
| BCE 664 | Egypt | Gains independence from Assyria
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| BCE 650 | Greece | Standardized coins used. |
| BCE 525 | Egypt | Conquered ny Camyses, Persia
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| BCE 512 | China | Cast Iron from blast furnace. | |
| BCE 510 | Greek | Earliest World Map found |
| BCE 490 | Persia | Battle of Marathon- begin war Greece vs Persia
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| BCE 457 | Greece | Golden Age of Athens under Pericles
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| BCE 450 | Greece | Herodotus visits Egypt, writes The Histories
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| BCE 400 | Greece | Invent the catapult, the first artillery weapon. |
| BCE 332-30 | Egypt | Ptolemaic Period |
| BCE 332 | Egypt | Alexander the Great conquers Egypt; founds Alexandria |
| BCE 323 | Egypt | Death of Alexander the Great |
| BCE 312 | Rome | Work begins on the Appian Way, the first great Roman road. |
| BCE 305 | Egypt | Ptolemy I Soter, a greek general, becomes Pharoah |
| BCE 290 | Egypt | At Alexandria, Euclid starts Geometry in "Elements". |
| BCE 250-100 | Egypt | in Alexandria, Hebrew texts translated to Greek, Septuagint |
| BCE 210 | Greece | Water pump built by Archimedes: the Archimedean screw for raising water and worked out the theory of levers. |
| BCE 200 | Egypt | Alexandria is scientific capital; famed for museum, library, university |
| BCE 146 | Rome | Conquers Carthage, destroys |
| BCE 100 | Syria | Glassblowing invented in Syria |
| BCE 49 | Rome | Civil War |
| BCE 49 | Egypt | Julius Caesar with Cleopatra |
| BCE 46 | Rome | Caesar returns with Cleopatra, becomes Dictator |
| BCE 44 | Egypt | Cleopatra murders Ptolemy XIV, Pharaoh |
| BCE 44 | Rome | Julius Caesar assassinated |
| BCE 41 | Egypt | Marc Anthony comes to Egypt to Cleopatra |
| BCE 31 | Rome | Battle of Actium' Octavian defeats Marc Anthony |
| BCE 30 | Egypt | Deaths of Marc Anthonyt and Cleopatra |
| BCE 30 | Egypt | Egypt annexed to Rome |
| BCE 4 | Israel | Death of King Herod |
| BCE 4 | Israel | Birth of Jesus, Accepted date |