The Last 10 Thousand Years BCE	00,000s BP

9 Thousands - Wisconsin Glacial	8,000s - Present Interglacial begins
7,000s - Agricultural Revolution	6,000s Jericho settlement
5,000s	4,000s Archaeology of Sumeria The potter's wheel was invented c.4200–4000 BC in Mesopotamia.
3,000s Indo European Migrations from c.4000 to 1000 BC spread Proto-Indo-European PIE languages from the Don and Volga Rivers throughout Europe and India. The first depictions of a wheeled vehicle appeared between c. 3600 and 3380 BC on clay pots. Domestication of the horse estimated to have occured c. 3500 - 2200 BC Egyptian hieroglyphs c.3250 – c.400 CE King Narmer (Menes) unites Upper and Lower Egypt. Sumerian pictographs (circa 3300 BC) Early Bronze Age 3300–2100 BC	2,000s Ancient Civilizations 3000-1100 BC Minoan Civilization on the island of Crete Egyptian Old Kingdom c.2686 – c.2181 BC / First Intermediate Period c.2181 – c.2055 BC / Middle Kingdom Cuneiform (c.2900 BC – 100s CE Left-to-right) is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write Sumerian, Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Urartian, Palaic, Aramaic, Old Persian . Sumerian City States / Semitic Akkadian Empire Semitic-speaking Bronze Age Amorites established several city-states (c.2500-1600 BC), such as Isin, Larsa, Mari and Ebla, and later founded Babylon and the Old Babylonian Empire . Middle Bronze Age 2100–1550 BC The first horse-drawn chariots 2100–1700 BC soon after the invention of the spoked wheel
1,000s Ancient Civilizations Middle Kingdom of Egypt c.2055 - c.1700 Indo European Migrations into Iran and India Old Assyrian Empire 1800-1375 Second Intermediate Period of Egypt c.1700 - 1550 BC Mycenaean Greece c.1750 – c.1050 BC Old Hittite Kingdom c.1650–c.1500 BC / Middle K. / New Hittite Kingdom c.1400 –c.1180 BC Late Bronze Age 1550–1200 BC Egyptian New Kingdom 1550 - 1069 BC Iron Age begins c. 1300 BC Middle Assyrian Empire 1375-1070 Semitic-speaking Arameans in Syria c.1200 An alliance of Greeks destroyed the city of Troy in the legendary Trojan War c. 1200s or 1100s Greek Dark Ages c.1200–800 BC in which Ancient Greek dialects e.g. Aeolic, Doric, and Ionic, and Attic appear, likely due to unsubstantiated invasions Phoenician alphabet c. 1050–150 BC Xia dynasty of China c.2070 – c.1600 BC Shang dynasty of China c.1600 BC–c.1046 BC Western Zhou of China c.1046 – 771 BC Chinese characters c.1200s – present	0,000s   Ancient / Classical Civilizations Third Intermediate Period of Egypt c.1077 – c.664 BC Kingdoms of Judah and Israel c.1000-587 BC / c.930-720BC Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 – 609 BC (Egypt conquered then lost) Greek alphabet (c.800– present Left-to-right) The Olympic Games are held every four years in Olympia, Greece. 776 BC - 339 CE Neo-Babylonian Empire 612 - 539BC Persian Empire (Achaemenid) 550 - 330 BC Old Persian cuneiform 525 BC – 330 BC Latin alphabet c.700 BC – present Roman Republic 509 - 27 BC Macedonia Empire 336 - 323 BC, Seleucid Empire 312 - 63 BC, Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 - 30 BC Western Zhou of China c.1046 – 771 BC Eastern Zhou c.771 - 256 BCE Spring and Autumn period 770 - 481 BCE Warring States period c.475–221 BC Qin dynasty Chinese Empire begins 221 – 206 BC Western Han 202 BC – 9 CE;

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