4TH millen- nium B.C. | Neolithic-village near Persepolis of c. 4000 | Ancient Empire c. 3200-2270 | |
| | | First Dynasty Menes, c. 3200 (Upper and lower Egypt united) | First historic dynasty' of Ur |
| | | | Sumerians settle in Babylonia, between 4000 and 3000 |
3d millen- nium B.C. | Step pyramid, Saq- qara | Third Dynasty 2780-2720 Djoser | |
| | Pyramid of Meidum Great pyramid, Gizeh Second pyramid, Gi- zeh, and Sphinx Third pyramid, Gizeh | Fourth Dynasty 2720-2560 Snofru Cheops Kephren Mykerinus | Assyrian conquests Sargon of Kish, 2637- 2581 |
| | Pyramids at Abusir Pyramids at Saqqara | Fifth Dynasty 2560-2420 | Earliest writings dis- covered Hebrews in Egypt |
2d millen- nium B.C | Stonehenge in Eng- land Temple of Knosus, Crete | Middle Empire 2100-1700 Twelfth Dynasty 2000-1790 | The horse appears in Babylonia, c. 2000 Hammurabi of Baby- lon, 1947-05 |
| | | New Empire 1555-712 | |
| | | Eighteenth Dynasty 1555-1350 | |
| | Mortuary temple, Thebes | Amenophis I Thutmosis I Thutmosis II | |
| | Mortuary temple, Thebes | Kemare-Hashepsut (queen) | |
| | Temple of Deir el- Bahari | Thutmois III Amenophis II Thutmosis IV | |
| | Temple at Luxor Hypostyle hall, Karnak, begun Colossi of Memmon Medinet Habu | Amenophis III (Mem- non) 1411-1375 Amenophis IV (Akna- ton) m. Nefretete | Phoenicians invent al- phabet, 15th c. Beehive tombs at My- cenae |
| | | Tutankhamun, c. 1358 | Moses, 14th c. Trojan War |
| | Mortuary temple at Qurna | Nineteenth Dynasty | |
| | Hypostyle Hall, Kar- nak | Ramses I Seti I, 1313-1292 | |
| | Abydos Abu Simbel Ramesseum | Ramses II, 1292-25 | |
| | Medinet Habu Temples of Khons and Amun, Karnak | Twentieth Dynasty Ramses III, 1198-67 | Dorian invasion of Greece after 1100 |