A Timeline of The Ancient Near East

Sorry about the vertical and horizontal scrolling.  I hate it when a website inflicts both on me, but
I could not think of a way to include all the data here without doing that -- and what you see here
I consider to be little more than the bare minimum for understanding the known world in pre-classical
times.  This timeline covers the six major zones of civilization in the Middle East, plus Egypt, from
3200 to 500 B.C.  I knew some readers would get confused because I use a different chronology
from what you'll see in other history books and webpages, so this will give you a rough idea of
when I believe these civilizations rose and fell.  Most of the words are links, too, so you can click
on them to go to where I wrote about those subjects.

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