MMW 11 Final: MMW 11 Timeline

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

10,500 natufians (transitional foragers) harvest cereals in syria and lebanon (ne) 9,000 earliest sickles and millstones in iraq sites (wild cereals cultivation and wild sheep management) (ne) 7,000 rice beer at jiahu hu site (henan yangtze valley) (china) 6,200 copper melting and textile manufacture at catal hoyuk (turkey) (ne) 6,000 earliest farming villages develop in the mountains of baluchistan. 5,500 irrigation agriculture in the foothills of the zagro mts. (ne) 5,000 neolithic period ends; chalcolithic (copper age) begins. 5,000 predynastic period begins (egypt); badarian period begins. 4,000 farmers settled in indus valley (pakistan); copper comes into use. 4,000 badarian period ends; naqada i (amratian) period begins (egypt) 3,500-3,100 naqada i ends; naqada ii (gerzean) period. 3,100 predynastic period (naqada iii) ends; early dynastic (archaic) period (dynasties 1-2) begins (egypt) 2,700 early dynastic period ends (egypt); old kingdom (d 3-6) begins. 2,140 middle kingdom (11-12) (setting of eloquent peasant) 2,100 old babylonian empire begins; the first ziggurats built in sumeria.