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Important Historical Dates

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When were Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs first used?

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  1. 1When were Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs first used?
    Late 4th millennium BC (around 3200 BC)
  2. 2When did the Cycladic culture begin in Greece?
    3200 BC
  3. 3When did the Caral-Supe civilization begin in Peru?
    3200 BC
  4. 4When was Skara Brae built in Scotland?
    3180 BC
  5. 5When did the First Dynasty of Egypt begin?
    3100 BC
  6. 6When did construction of Stonehenge begin?
    Around 3000 BC (first version with circular ditch and 56 wooden posts)
  7. 7When did the Indus Valley Civilization's Kot Diji phase begin?
    2800 BC
  8. 8When did the Minoan civilization's Knossos reach 80,000 inhabitants?
    2700 BC
  9. 9When did the Old Kingdom begin in Egypt?
    2700 BC
  10. 10What is the oldest known surviving literature, and when was it written?
    Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh (2600 BC), including the Instructions of Shuruppak and Kesh temple hymn
  11. 11When did the Mature Harappan phase of the Indus Valley civilization begin?
    2600 BC
  12. 12When did King Khufu complete the Great Pyramid of Giza?
    2560 BC
  13. 13When was the Akkadian Empire founded?
    Late 24th century BC (exact date depends on chronology used)
  14. 14When was Pharaoh Teti, the earliest known victim of assassination, thought to have been killed?
    2291 BC
  15. 15When was Stonehenge completed?
    2200 BC
  16. 16When did the Middle Kingdom begin in Egypt?
    2055 BC
  17. 17When did the last mammoth population go extinct on Wrangel Island?
    2000 BC
  18. 18When was the oldest record of the Code of Hammurabi?
    1780 BC
  19. 19When did the Mycenaean civilization begin in mainland Greece?
    Around 1750 BC
  20. 20When did the Minoan eruption destroy Akrotiri and damage sites in Crete?
    1600 BC
  21. 21When did the Shang dynasty begin in China?
    1600 BC
  22. 22When did the New Kingdom begin in Egypt?
    Around 1550 BC
  23. 23When did the Olmec civilization flourish in Pre-Columbian Mexico?
    1500 – 400 BC
  24. 24When was the composition of the Rigveda completed?
    Around 1500 BC
  25. 25When was the oldest known song with notation created?
    Around 1400 BC (Hurrian songs)
  26. 26When did the Late Bronze Age collapse occur?
    1200 – 1150 BC (in Southwestern Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean)
  27. 27When was the Phoenician alphabet created?
    Around 1050 BC
  28. 28When did the Zhou dynasty overthrow the Shang dynasty in China?
    Around 1046 BC (King Wu of Zhou)
  29. 29When was Carthage founded by the Phoenicians?
    814 BC in Tunisia
  30. 30When did Greek city-states rise?
    800 BC

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