Period 1 AP World History

Events

End of Last Ice Ade

16000 bce - 10000 bce

Earliest Agricultural Revolutions

12000 bce - 10000 bce

First Chiefdom in Mesopotamia

6,000 bc

Beginnings of Mesopotamia and other Civilizations

3500 bc - 3000 bc

Period of Independent Sumerian city - states

3200 bc - 2350 bc

Beginnings of Chinese, Indus Valley and Central Asian (Oxus) Civilizations

2200 bc - 2000 bc

Xia Dynasty in China

2070 bc - 1600 bc

Epic Of Gilgamesh

2000 BC

Babylonian Empire

1900 bc - 1500 bc

Reign Of Hammurabi

1792 bc - 1750 bc

Abandonment of Indus Valley civilizations

1700 BCE

New Egyptian Kingdom

1550 bc - 1064 bc

Babylonian conquest of Judah

586 bc

Egyptian and Mesopotamia incorporated into Persian Empire

500 bc

Beginning of Olmec Civilization

120 bc