Egypt
•-9000 Domestication of animals
•-6000 Wild grasses and grains of Anatolia lead to domesticated wheat and barley
•-5000 Colonization and farm settlements in Tigris-Euphrates and Nile Valleys
•-3100 Menes unites Egypt, dynasties begin
•-3000 Development of major cities in Sumer
•-1166 Death of Ramses III, last great Egyptian
pharaoh
• -720 Assyria
at height of power