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Timeline of Ancient History revision I'm working on

 *  c. 3200 BC: Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing systems are developed.
 *  3600 BC: Around this time, the Minoan culture begins.
 * 3200 BC: Newgrange built in Ireland.
 * 3200 BC: Cycladic culture in Greece
 * 3200 BC: Norte Chico civilization begins in Peru
 * 3200 BC: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran
 * 3150 BC:First Dynasty of Egypt, the first series of kings to rule over a unified Egypt
 * 3100 BC: Skara Brae in Scotland
 * c. 3000 BC: Egyptian calendar
 * c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge construction begins. In its first version, it consisted of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
 * c. 3000 BC: Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in Romania and Ukraine
 * 3000 BC: Jiroft civilization begins in Iran
 * 3000 BC: First known use of papyrus by Egyptians
 * 2800 BC: Kot Diji phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins
 * c.2900 BC Early Dynastic Period begins in Mesopotamia.
 * 2800 BC: Longshan culture in China
 * 2700 BC: Minoan Civilization ancient palace city Knossos reach 80,000 inhabitants
 * 2700 BC: Rise of Elam in Iran
 * 2700 BC: The Epic of Gilgamesh becomes the first written story. However, books and the printing press weren't invented until 1440 AD!
 * 2700 BC: The Old Kingdom begins in Egypt
 * c.2550: Eannatum King of Lagash establishes one of the first recorded empires and erects the Stele of the Vultures
 * 2600 BC: Oldest known surviving literature: Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh, including the Instructions of Shuruppak and the Kesh temple hymn.
 * 2600 BC: Mature Harappan phase of the Indus Valley civilization (in present-day Pakistan and India) begins
 * 2600 BC: Emergence of Maya culture in the Yucatán Peninsula
 * 2560 BC: King Khufu completes the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Land of Punt in the Horn of Africa first appears in Egyptian records around this time.
 * 2500-1500 BC: Kerma culture in Nubia
 * 2500 BC: The mammoth goes extinct.
 * 2334 or 2270 BC: Akkadian Empire is founded, dating depends upon whether the Middle chronology or the Short chronology is used.
 * 2200-2100 BC: 4.2 kiloyear event: a severe aridification phase, likely connected to a Bond event, which was registered throughout most North Africa, Middle East and continental North America. Related droughts very likely caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.
 * 2200 BC: completion of Stonehenge.
 * c.2135 BC: Gutian dynasty of Sumer established as the Gutians overrun the Akkadian Empire and Sumer
 * 2181 BC: First Intermediate Period of Egypt begins as central authority in the Old Kingdom collapses.
 * 2055 BC: The Middle Kingdom begins in Egypt
 * 2000 BC: Domestication of the horse
 * 1900 BC: Erlitou culture in China
 * 1800 BC: alphabetic writing emerges
 * 1780 BC: Oldest Record of Hammurabi's Code.
 * 1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to an end but is continued by the Cemetery H culture; The beginning of Poverty Point Civilization in North America
 * 1600 BC: Minoan civilization on Crete is destroyed by the Minoan eruption of Santorini island.
 * 1600 BC: Mycenaean Greece
 * 1600 BC: The beginning of Shang Dynasty in China, evidence of a fully developed Chinese writing system
 * 1600 BC: Beginning of Hittite dominance of the Eastern Mediterranean region
 * c.1650 BC: Second Intermediate Period of Egypt, period of disunion after the Middle Kingdom; Hyksos establish the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
 * c.1550 BC: The New Kingdom begins in Egypt
 * 1500 BC: Composition of the Rigveda is completed
 * c.1400 BC: Oldest known song with notation
 * 1400-400 BC: Olmec civilization flourishes in Pre-Columbian Mexico, during Mesoamerica's Formative period
 * 1200 BC: The Hallstatt culture
 * 1200-1150 BC: Bronze Age collapse in Southwestern Asia and in the Eastern Mediterranean region. This period is also the setting of the Iliad and the Odyssey epic poems (which were composed about four centuries later).
 * c. 1180 BC: Disintegration of Hittite Empire
 * 1100 BC: Use of Iron spreads.
 * 1000 BC: Nok culture in West Africa
 * c. 1000 BC: King David begins his reign as the second King of Israel, after Saul
 * 1046 BC: The Zhou force (led by King Wu of Zhou) overthrow the last king of Shang Dynasty; Zhou Dynasty established in China
 * 890 BC: Approximate date for the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey
 * 970 BC: King Solomon begins his reign as third King of Israel, after David
 * 814 BC: Foundation of Carthage by the Phynician in today known Tunisia
 * 800 BC: Rise of Greek city-states
 * c.785 BC: Rise of the Kingdom of Kush