Timelines

	Egypt & Nubia	Europe & The Near East
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
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
1933	tribute levied from Wawat southern oases occupied by Egyptian troops
1937	12th Dynasty Amenemhat I establishes royal residence at Itjtawy
1920		border with Egypt fortified and policed
1913-1903	armies of Senuseret I reduce Wawat to Egyptian control first series of forts built
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