+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TIME-TABLE OF THE WORLD: B.C. 8000 to 500 | | | | This Chronology, prepared as a companion to the Summary of the | | World’s History, sets forth in tabular form for ready reference | | the events dealt with in the narrative on opposite pages | +-----+-------------------------------------------------------+------+ |B.C. | Early civilisation of the Nile Basin. Egypt before | B.C. | |8000 | the Pyramids. | 8000 | |7000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 7000 | | | Asiatic invasion of Egypt | | | | Pre-Semitic civilisations of the Euphrates Basin. | | | | Susa founded. | | |6000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 6000 | | | Invasion of Egypt by dynastic race, 5800. Mena rules | | | | all Egypt. First dynasty, 5500. | | | | Babylonian kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad. Ea founds | | | | Eridu and civilises Babylonia. | | |5000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 5000 | | | Egypt. The Pyramid builders. Great Pyramid built by | | | | Khufu (Cheops), 4700. | | | | Earliest monuments to kings in Babylonia, 4700. | | |4000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 4000 | | | Egypt invaded from the north. First, or Babylonian, | | | | Semitic wave in the Euphrates Valley. Rise of | | | | Babylonian kingdoms. Sargon and Naram-Sin, Semitic | | | | rulers of Akkad. Middle kingdom of Egypt. Revival | | | | of art. Twelfth dynasty (3400). | | | | Gudea’s rule in Babylon. Development of commerce, | | | | 3300. | | |3000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 3000 | | | Egypt invaded by the Hyksos, nomadic Semitic | | | | conquerors, the “Shepherd Kings.” Fifteenth Dynasty | | | | (2500). Second Hyksos movement (2250). | | | | Conquest of Babylon by Elamites. Rule of Hammurabi | | | | (Amraphel of Gen. xiv.), 2129. | | | | Second, or Canaanite, Semitic wave, extending to the | | | | Mediterranean. | | | | First Aryan migration westward over Europe, and | | | | southward; conquest of Hindostan. | | |2000 +-------------------------------------------------------+ 2000 |