Years	Mesopotamia	Egypt	South Asia
7000 BCE	Catal Hoyuk - 7000-5000 BCE	Sudanic agriculture 7500 BCE	Beginnings of Agriculture - 7500 - 7000 BCE
6000 BCE
5000 BCE
4000 BCE
3000 BCE	Sumerian dominance - 3200 - 2350 BCE	Writing developed at least by 3200 BCE Unification of Egypt - 3100 BCE Archaic period of Egyptian history - 3100 - 2660 BCE
2000 BCE	Babylonian dominance - 2350 - 1600 BCE Sargon of Akkad - 2334 - 2315 BCE	Egyptian Old Kingdom - 2660 - 2160 BCE Era of Pyramic Building - 2600 - 2500 BCE	High point of Harappan society - 2500 - 2000 BCE
1000 BCE	Writing of Gilgamesh - after 2000 BCE Abraham leaves Ur for Palestine - 1850 BCE Reign of Hammurabi - 1792 - 1750 BCE Hittite state - 1450 - 1200 BCE Moses leaves Egypt - ca. 1300 BCE	Egyptian Middle Kingdom - 2040 - 1640 BCE Egyptian New Kingdom - 1550 - 1070 BCE Pharaoh Tuthmosis III - 1479 - 1425 BCE Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) - 1353 - 1335 BCE	Beginning of Harappan decline - 1900 BCE Beginning of Aryan migration to India - 1500 BCE Vedic age - 1500 - 500 BCE Composition of Rig Veda 1400 - 900 BCE Aryan migrations to Ganges Valley - 1000 BCE Emergence of varna distinctions
100 BCE	Assyrian dominance - 1000 - 612 BCE Hebrew King David - 1000 - 970 BCE Hebrew King Solomon - 970 - 930 BCE Assyrian conquest of Israel - 722 BCE Reign of Nebuchadnezzar - 605 - 562 BCE New Babylonian Empire - 600 - 550 BCE New Babylonian conquest of kingdom of Judah 586 BCE	Conquest of Egypt by King Kashta of Kush - 760 BCE	Vedic age - 1500 - 500 BCE Composition of principal Upanishads - 800-400 BCE Establishment of first Aryan cities in Ganges valley - 750 BCE Aryan migrations to the Deccan Plateau - 500 BCE