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- Homo sapiens, appear in Africa
- 400,00 BC
- Development of agriculture and domestication of animals
- 10,000-8,000 BC
- Bronze Age in southwestern Asia, Egypt, and Europe
- 4,000-1,000 BC
- First cities established and writing developed in Mesopotamia
- 4,000-3,000 BC
- The wheel invented in Sumer
- 3,000 BC
- Old Kingdom in Egypt
- 2686-2181 BC
- Sargon establishes the first empire in Akkadia in Mesopotamia
- 2350 BC
- Earliest Minoan palaces on Crete
- 2200 BC
- Middle Kingdom in Egypt
- 2050-1786 BC
- Reign of Hammurabi, king of Babylon
- 1792-1750 BC
- Beginning of Hittite kingdom in Anatolia
- 1750 BC
- Hebrews migrate into Egypt
- 1600-1400 BC
- New Kingdom in Egypt
- 1567-1085 BC
- Mycenaeans take over Minoan Crete
- 1400 BC
- Exodus of Hebrews from Egypt
- 1250 BC
- The Near East's Dark Age
- 1200-1000 BC
- Greece's Dark Age
- 1000-750 BC
- Neo-Assyrians create an Empire
- 900 BC
- Traditional date of first Olympic Games in Greece
- 776 BC
- Greeks establish many new settlements around the Mediterranean
- 775-500 BC
- Greeks begin to create city-states
- 750 BC
- Nebuchanezzar II creates Neo-Babylonian Empire, exiles Hebrews to Babylon
- 605-562 BC
- Athenians appoint Solon to recodify theirlaws and try to end social unrest
- 594 BC
- Cyrus founds the Persian Empire
- 559 BC
- Cyrus allows exiled Hebrews to return from Babylon to Palestine
- 539 BC
- Cleisthenes begins to reform Athenian democracy
- 508 BC