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2nd thru 20th Millennia BC |
| -1193 | Greeks destroy Troy. | |
| -1200 | Hebrews develop monotheism. | |
| -1374 | Egyptian king Amenhotep introduces monotheism. | |
| -1500 | Moses delivers the Ten Commandments from Mt. Sinai.
In China, Shang kings organize human and animal sacrifices, calling themselves sons of God. |
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| -1800 | Taboos against eating pork established in the Near East. | |
| Invention of alphabet. 1 | -2000 | Hittites plunder Babylon. Egyptians begin worshipping gods. |
| Chinese mill grain. | -2205 |
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| Sumerians develop 600-symbol alphabet.
First Egyptian libraries established. |
-2500 | |
| Huang Ti produces first medical text, Nei Ching. | -2595 | |
| Egyptians sun-dry fish. | -2600 | |
| Wife of Chinese emperor Huang Ti manufacturers silk. | -2640 | |
| Egyptians begin building pyramids.
First standardized system of measurement created in Mesopotamia. |
-2700 | |
| Sumerians invent the sickle. | -2800 | |
| Egyptian physician, Imhotep, begins to treat disease. | -2980 | |
| Gilgamesh, Sumerians write story of a great flood and humans saved in an ark.
Ling-lun invents the first bamboo flute. Cotton woven in Indus Valley. Indian civilization takes root. Sumarians develop a number system. |
-3000 | First dolphins killed in the Black Sea. |
| A picture from Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, reveals the earliest evidence of vehicle wheels. | -3200 | |
| Egyptians establish city of Memphis. | -3400 | |
| Sumerians establish centers of civilization.
Mesopotamians develop the wheel. Sumerians invent an alphabet. Sumerians use plows to cultivate. Mesopotamians use clay to make pots. |
-3500 | |
| Asian artisans begin to work bronze. | -3600 | |
| First Sumerian writing appears on clay tablets. | -4000 | Sumerians create bureaucracies run by priests and begin worshipping gods. |
| Europeans domesticate horses. | -4350 | |
| Cattle domesticated in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates. Egyptians build irrigation canals and dikes. |
-5000 | |
| Persians begin to smelt copper. | -5500 | |
| Egyptians build
the world's first astronomical observatory. |
-6,000 | |
| Sumerians invent the wheel. | -6500 | |
| Neolithic humans cultivate plants, domesticate animals, make cloth and pottery. | -10,000 | |
| Pottery made in Japan. | -10,700 | |
| Iraqis domesticate dogs. | -12,000 | |
| European cave art created. | -20,000 | |
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