Historical and Political Snippets in Time
The following entries mark events of historical or political significance
over the period 4000 B.C. through 2501 B.C.
- -4000 to -3501
- End of Paleolithic period along Mediterranean coastline
- Sumerians settle on the site of the city of Babylon
- Babylonian influence predominant in Mediterranean regions of
Asia (to -2000)
- -3500 to -3001
- Height of Sumerian civilization
- Neolithic period in western Europe (to -1700)
- Bronze age in Bohemia
- King Menes the Fighter unites Upper and Lower Egypt
- 1st and 2nd dynasties in Egypt (Archaic period to -2800)
- -3000 to -2501
- Semitic tribes occupy Assyria in northern part of the plain of
Shinar and Akkad
- Phoenicians settle on Syrian coast, with centers at Tyre and Sidon
- Neolithic settlements in Crete
- Height of Danubian culture
- Beginning of the period of the "Sage Kings" in China
- Old Kingdom of Egypt, 3rd to 6th dynasty (-2815 to -2294)
- Beginning of early dynastic period of Mesopotamia (to -2350)
- Zoser, king of 3rd Egyptian dynasty (-2780 to -2720)
- Gilgamesh, legendary king of Uruk (Erech) (c. -2750)
- Cheops, king of 4th Egyptian dynasty (-2700 to -2675)
- Egyptians invade Palestine as reprisal for attacks on trade caravans
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