Use vertical time lines and chart these dates as horizontal bars
with date and event on top of the bars. Insert maps showing the
extent of the empires. ca. 4000-2200/Sumerian and Akkadian
empires in Mesopotamia ca. 3600-3100/Pre-dynastic period in
Egypt ca. 3500/Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt ca. 3200/Cuneiform
writing in Mesopotamia ca. 3100-2200/Old Kingdom in Egypt ca.
3000-1100/Minoan-Mycenaean civilization (Aegean islands) ca.
3000/First villages and cultures in the Americas ca.
3000-2500/Early civilization in northern India ca.
2700/Construction of great pyramids in Egypt ca. 2500/Aryan
invasion of India ca. 2000-800/Cimmerians in Russia ca.
2000-200/Phoenician confederacy ca. 2000-A.D. 300/Kingdom of
Kush (Nubia) in Africa 1991-1786/Middle Kingdom in Egypt ca.
1950-1650/Old Babylonian kingdom ca. 1900-1200/Hittite empire
1786-1570/Hyksos rule in Egypt ca. 1700/Code of Hammurabi ca.
1650/Overthrow of Old Babylonia by the Kassites 1570-1087/New
Kingdom in Egypt ca. 1500-900/Early Vedic Age in India ca. 15