Egypt & Nubia |
Europe & The Near East |
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5000 | earliest Egyptian settlements | trade
between northern Egypt and Palestine Late Neolithic culture in Mesopotamia organised irrigation farming |
4500 | trade between southern Egypt and Nubia | |
4000 | Nagada I artefacts apparent throughout south | |
3500 | Nagada II artefacts apparent throughout Egypt | urban settlement in Mesopotamia |
semi-nomadic A-group living and trading in southern Egypt and Nubia | ||
3000 | major towns in south, associated with elite burials |
early historic dynasties in
Mesopotamia cultural ascendancy of Sumer |
2950 | earliest written texts from elite burials at Abydos | |
2900 |
Narmer or Aha first king of all Egypt royal burial at Abydos Aha attacks Nubia |
Egyptian royal trade with Palestine |
2800 | Gilgamesh, king of Uruk | |
2770 |
2nd Dynasty Egyptian work Wadi Allaqi gold mines |
Egyptian artefacts at Byblos |
2650 | 3rd Dynasty | |
2630 | Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara | |
2600 | depopulation of Wawat apparent | |
2575 | 4th Dynasty | |
2550 | Great Pyramid of Khufu | |
2500 | Egyptian town founded at Buhen | |
2465 |
5th Dynasty sun temples at Abu Gurab |
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2400 | repopulation of Wawat by C-group | |
2325 | Sargon, king of Agade, builds an empier of Babylonia and Assyria | |
2323 | 6th Dynasty | |
2250-2240 | Harkhuf's expeditions to Nubia | |
2150 | death of Pepy II marks end of Old Kingdom | |
2090 | Utukhegal resserts historic intependence of Sumer | |
2080 | Ur-Nammu establishes pre-eminence in Babylonia of 3rd Dynasty of Ur | |
2050 | war between Thebes and Asyut | |
1995 | regional authority of Ur dwindles during reign of Ibbi-Sin | |
1994-1986 | civil war Mentuhotep II king of reunified Egypt |
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1933 |
tribute levied from Wawat southern oases occupied by Egyptian troops |
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1937 |
12th Dynasty Amenemhat I establishes royal residence at Itjtawy |
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1920 | border with Egypt fortified and policed | |
1913-1903 | armies of Senuseret I reduce
Wawat to Egyptian control first series of forts built |
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1842 | workmen's town founded at Kahun | |
1840 | Red Sea port founded at Sawu | |
1830 | campaign of Senuseret III in southern Palestine | |
1829-1818 | Senuseret III pushes Egyptian control beyond second cataract: second series of forts built | |
1790 | Shamshi-Adad I, king of Assyria builds an empire in Mesopotamia | |
1765 | Hammurabi, king of Babylon | |
1759 | end of 12th Dynasty | |
1750-1650 | Egyptian garrisons gradually assimilated into local population | |
1730 | Yanti, governor of Byblos,
buried according to Egyptian funerary cult Hammurabi attacs Mari |
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