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Timeline of World History

| 15 bya-3000 BC | 3000 BC-476 AD | 476 AD-1450 | 1450-1650 | 1650-1770 | 1770-1832 | 1832-1880 | 1880-1950 | 1950-present |

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Antiquity

3,300 BC
	Invention of writing by Sumerians in Mesopotamia, wheel, plows
	Ötzi (Oetzi) the Iceman, frozen corpse in Alpine glacier between Austria and Italy
3,250 BC
	Scorpion King, unification of upper Egypt, earliest known hieroglyphics from his tomb
3,100 BC
	King Narmer/Menes, unification of upper and lower Egypt
2,700 BC
	Gilgamesh, Sumerian king of Uruk in Mesopotamia
2,600 BC
	Oldest pyramid, step pyramid at Saqqara, Egypt, tomb of 3rd dynasty king Djoser, built by priest/architect Imhotep
2,500 BC
	Great Pyramids at Giza, Egypt -- tombs of 4th dynasty kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. Sphinx, monument in honor of Khafre or Khufu
2,450 BC
	Oldest Pyramid Texts --religious inscriptions carved on pyramids of the 5th and 6th dynasties
2,100 BC
	Ur-Nammu, Sumerian king of Ur in Mesopotamia, first law book, step pyramids (ziggurat)
2,000 BC
	oldest written versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh on clay tablets from library at Nippur in Mesopotamia

 

350 BC
	Tollund Man, Scandinavian peat bog body found in Denmark, hanging victim, oldest peat bog bodies date back to 10,000 years ago (Koelbjerg Woman), some bodies suggest human sacrifice rituals associated with Celtic cultures

 

1,100 AD
	Warm climate spurs food production, economic prosperity and expansionism in Europe (lasted till around 1,300 AD)
1,300 AD
	Little Ice Age, lasted till around 1500

 

| 15 bya-3000 BC | 3000 BC-476 AD | 476 AD-1450 | 1450-1650 | 1650-1770 | 1770-1832 | 1832-1880 | 1880-1950 | 1950-present |

 

Last updated: 08/14/2006

 

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