| DATES | MESOPOTAMIA | EGYPT | OTHER AREAS | |
| 4000-3000 BC | Early Urbanization | |||
| 3100-2600 | Early Dynastic Period | |||
| 2600-2150 | Old Kingdom | |||
| 2400-2250 | Floruit of Ebla | |||
| 2350-2200 | Early Akkadian State | |||
| 2040-1650 | Middle Kingdom | |||
| 1700-1200 | Floruit of Hittite Empire | |||
| 1530-1100 | Kassite rule | |||
| Floruit of Mitanni | ||||
| 1567-1069 | New Kingdom | |||
| Floruit of Ugarit | ||||
| 671 |
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| 586-539 | Babylonian captivity of Israel | |||
| 539-330 | Achaemenid Empire in Persia | |||
| 525 | Persian Conquest | |||
| 332-330 |
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