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Ancient Chronology

Egyptian Chronology

• Predynastic Period (5000-3200 Predynastic Period (5000-3200 B.C.)
• Old Kingdom (3200-2200 B.C.)
• First Intermediate Period (2200-2000 B.C.)
• Middle Kingdom (2000-1750 B.C.)
• Second Intermediate Period (1750-1570 B.C.)
• New Kingdom or Empire Period (1570-1100 B.C.)

Mesopotamian Chronology

• Sumerians (5000-2200 B.C.)
• Akkadians [Semites] (2200-2000 B.C.)
• Old Babylonians [Amorites/Semites] (2000-1650 B.C.)
• Kessites (1650-1050 B.C.)
• Assyrians [Semites] (1100-612 B.C.)
• Chaldeans [Neo-Babylonians] (612-535 B.C.)