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Prehistory
6-5 million BCE - Earliest protohumans 2.5 million BCE - Homo habilis 2.2-1.8 million BCE - Homo erectus 400,000-200,000 BCE - Homo sapiens 200,000-100,000 BCE - Modern humans in Africa 120,000 BCE - Modern humans in West Asia 100,000-9500 BCE - Paleolithic and Mesolithic Eras 70,000-35,000 BCE - Modern humans in India, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe 20,000-15,000 BCE - Modern humans in the Americas 9500-8000 BCE - Neolithic Era; the beginning of agriculture in southwestern Asia 7000-5000 BCE - Agriculture in Nubia, China, Mexico, New Guinea, Greece, India, and Thailand 3500-3200 BCE - First cities in western Asia 3100-2000 BCE - First cities in India, Egypt, China, Peru 3000 BCE - Introduction of Bronze 3000-1000 BCE - Agriculture in island southeast Asia, tropical West Africa, North America 2000 BCE - Modern humans to western Pacific islands 1600-1000 BCE - First cities in Crete and Mexico 1500 BCE - Introduction of Iron 1000 BCE - Modern humans to New Zealand 100 BCE - First cities in West Africa
Mesopotamia
5500 BCE - First Sumerian settlements 3200 BCE - First cuneiform writing 3000-2300 BCE - Sumerian city-states 2500-2100 BCE - Jiroft 2350-2160 BCE - Akkadian Empire 2100-2000 BCE - Neo-Sumerian Empire led by Ur Ca. 2000 BCE - Epic of Gilgamesh 1800-1595 BCE - Old Babylonian Empire Ca. 1790-1780 BCE - Hammurabi's Law Code 1600-1200 BCE - Hittite Empire 1155-605 BCE - Assyrian Empire Ca. 626-539 BCE - Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian) Empire Ca. 539-3320 BCE - Persian Empire
India and Central Asia
2600-1750 BCE - Harappan city-states 2200-1800 BCE - Oxus cities 1500-1000 BCE - Aryan age 1000-700 BCE - Compilation of Brahmanas 1000-450 BCE - Height of Indo-Aryan synthesis 800-600 BCE - Compilation of Upanishads
Egypt
3100-3000 BCE - Upper and Lower Egypt unified 2686-2181 BCE - Old Kingdom (Pyramids of Giza) 2181-2041 BCE - First Intermediate Period 2040-1786 BCE - Middle Kingdom 1786-1550 BCE - Second Intermediate Period 1550-1064 BCE - New Kingdom 1064-525 BCE - Third Intermediate Period
Sub-Saharan Africa
8000-5000 BCE - Earliest agriculture in Sahara, Nubia, and Ethiopia 2000-500 BCE - Bantu migrations 1800-1500 BCE - Nubian kingdom of Kerma 1200 BCE - Early urbanisation in western Sudan 1000-500 BCE- Beginning of trans-Saharan trade 900 BCE - Rise of Kush 900-800 BCE - Mande towns
Eastern Mediterranean
2000-1500 BCE - Possible time frame for Abraham (biblical) 2000-1400 BCE - Minoan Crete 1600-1200 BCE - Mycenaean 1500-650 BCE - Phoenicia 1300-1200 BCE - Hebrew Exodus from Egypt (biblical) 1250 BCE - Destruction of Troy, possibly by Mycenaeans 1200-800 BCE - Greek "Dark Age" 1000-722 BCE - Hebrew kingdoms 750 BCE - Carthage colony established by Phoenicians 722 BCE - Assyrian conquest of Israel 586 BCE - Chaldean conquest of Judah 539 BCE - End of the Babylonian captivity
China
8000-7000 BCE - Agriculture begins in the Yellow River Basin 7000-5000 BCE - Agriculture begins in the Yangzi River Basin 5000-3000 BCE - Yangshao culture 3000-2200 BCE - Longshan culture 2183-1752 BCE - Xia dynasty in northern China 1752-1122 BCE - Shang dynasty 1400 BCE - Beginning of the bronze-casting industry 1122-221 BCE - Shou dynasty
Japan and Southeast Asia
10,000-300 BCE - Jomon culture 8000-6000 BCE - Agriculture begins in Southeast Asia 7000-4000 BCE - Agriculture begins in New Guinea 5000-2000 BCE - Agriculture begins in Korea 4000-2000 BCE - Austronesian migrations 2000-1500 BCE - Bronze age begins in Southeast Asia 1600-1000 BCE - Melanesian and Austronesian migrations into South Pacific 1000-800 BCE - First Southeast Asian states 1000 BCE - Austronesian settlement of Samoa and Tonga
The Americas
20,000 BCE - Possible earliest migrations to America 11,500-9500 BCE - Beginning of Clovis culture 8000 BCE - Beginning of agriculture in Mesoamerica and Andes 3000-1600 BCE - Peruvian cities 2500 BCE Earliest mound-building cultures 2500 BCE Agriculture in lower Mississippi Valley 2000 BCE - Earliest agriculture in southwestern North America 1500 BCE - Agriculture in Amazon Basin 1200-300 BCE - Olmec 1200-200 BCE - Chalvín 1000-500 BCE Poverty Point culture 650 BCE - Olmec writing
