Harcourt Social Studies world history timelines ch 3

When is The code of Hammurabi is written?

• About 3000 B.C

• About 1800 B.C.

• About 1790 B.C.

• 2500 B.C.

Nebuchadnezzar's rule begins

• 2600 B.C.

• 605 B.C.

• About 1800 B.C.

• 700 B.C.

Akkadian Empire begins

• *2350 B.C.

• 1595 B.C.

• 1766 B.C.

• 3100 B.C.

Ancient Egypt creates a unified government

• 2350 B.C.

• 2600 B.C

• 3100 B.C.

• 2500 B.C

The first cities in the Indus Valley form

• 2600 B.C.

• 2500 B.C.

• *2350 B.C.

• 612 B.C.

1766 B.C.

• The Shang dynasty begins to rule China

• The Assyrian Empire forms

• Sumerian begin to write in cuneiform

• The Medes conquer the Assyrians

Kassites conquer Babylon

• 2600 B.C.

• About 3000 B.C

• *2350 B.C.

• 1595 B.C.

The Assyrian Empire forms

• 700 B.C.

• 612 B.C.

• 605 B.C.

• 1766 B.C.

About 3000 B.C

• Sumerian civilization begins

• Sumerian begin to write in cuneiform

• Akkadian Empire begins

• Nubia is an important African trading center

2350 B.C.

• The first cities in the Indus Valley form

• Sumerian civilization begins

• The worlds first empire forms in Mesopotamia

• The Medes conquer the Assyrians