Template: Ancient Near East

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|title = Timeline of the [[Ancient Near East]]
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  at:-3300 text:[[Kish tablet]]
  at:-3100 text:[[Warka Vase]]
  at:-3050 text:[[Narmer Palette]]
  from:-2620 till:-2560 color:lives shift:(25,-6)  text:[[Great Sphinx]]
  from:-2400 till:-2350 color:lives shift:(17,-6)  text:[[Ur-Nanshe]]
  from:-2285 till:-2250 color:lives shift:(12,-6) text:[[Enheduanna]]
  from:-2144 till:-2124 color:lives shift:(10,-6) text:[[Gudea]]
  at:-2050 text:[[Code of Ur-Nammu]]
  from:-1970 till:-1830 color:lives shift:(46,-6) text:[[Kültepe texts]]
  at:-1900 text:[[Linear A]] 
  at:-1800 text:[[chariot|introduction of chariot warfare]]
  at:-1700 text:[[Code of Hammurabi]]
  at:-1500 text:[[Proto-Sinaitic alphabet]]
  at:-1457 text:[[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]]
  from:-1352 till:-1335 color:lives shift:(10,-6)  text:[[Akhenaten]]
  at:-1312 text:[[Mursili's eclipse]]
  at:-1274 text:[[Battle of Kadesh]]
  from:-1250 till:-1150 color:lives shift:(35,-6)  text:[[Bronze Age collapse]]
  at:-1190 text:[[Troy VIIa]]
  from:-1186 till:-1156 color:lives shift:(14,-6) text:[[Ramesses III]]
  from:-1115 till:-1076 color:lives shift:(14,-6)  text:[[Tiglath-Pileser I]]
  at:-1050 text:[[Phoenician alphabet]]
  from:-884 till:-859 color:lives shift:(10,-6) text:[[Ashur-nasir-pal II]]
  at:-813 text:[[Carthage]]
  at:-750 text:[[History of the Greek alphabet|Greek alphabet]]
  from:-745 till:-727 color:lives shift:(10,-6) text:[[Tiglath-Pileser III]]
  at:-612  shift:(-75,-6)  text:[[Fall of Nineveh]]

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  bar:periods
  from:-3300 till:-3000 shift:(10,-3) color:eba text:[[Early Bronze Age|EBA I]]
  from:-3000 till:-2700 shift:(10,-3) color:eba text:[[Early Bronze Age|EBA II]]
  from:-2700 till:-2200 shift:(10,-3) color:eba text:[[Early Bronze Age|EBA III]]
  from:-2200 till:-2000 shift:(10,-3) color:eba text:[[Early Bronze Age|EBA IV]]
  from:-2000 till:-1750 shift:(10,-3) color:mba text:[[Middle Bronze Age|MBA I]]
  from:-1750 till:-1550 shift:(2,-3) color:mba text:[[Middle Bronze Age|MBA II-III]]
  from:-1550 till:-1400 shift:(10,-3) color:lba text:[[Late Bronze Age|LBA I]]
  from:-1400 till:-1200 shift:(10,-3) color:lba text:[[Late Bronze Age|LBA II]]
  from:-1200 till:-1000 shift:(10,-3) color:eia text:[[Early Iron Age|Iron Age I]]
  from:-1000 till:-586 shift:(10,-3) color:eia text:Iron Age II

  bar:egypt
  from:start till:-3200 shift:(2,-2) color:yellow text:[[Predynastic Egypt|Pre-,]]
  from:-3200 till:-3000 shift:(0,-2) color:yellow text:[[Protodynastic Period of Egypt|Protodynastic]]
  from:-2920 till:-2686 shift:(2,-2) color:yellow text:[[Early Dynastic Period of Egypt|Early Dynastic]]
  from:-2686 till:-2183 shift:(10,-2) color:yellow text:[[Old Kingdom]]
  from:-2030 till:-1650 shift:(10,-2) color:yellow text:[[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]
  from:-1650 till:-1540 shift:(0,-2) color:yellow text:[[Hyksos]]
  from:-1540 till:-1077 shift:(10,-2) color:yellow text:[[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]]
  from:-1070 till:end shift:(10,-2) color:yellow text:[[Third Intermediate Period of Egypt|3rd Intermediate Period]]

 bar:mesopot
  from:-3300 till:-2900 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[Uruk period|Uruk III-IV]]
  from:-2900 till:-2334 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[Early Dynastic Period of Sumer|Early Dynastic Sumer]]
  from:-2333 till:-2150 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[Akkadian Empire|Akkad]]
  from:-2150 till:-2050 shift:(0,-2) color:orange text:[[Gutians|Gutian]]
  from:-2050 till:-1940 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[Third Dynasty of Ur|Ur III]]
  from:-1894 till:-1595 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[First Babylonian Dynasty|Old Babylonian]]
  from:-1595 till:-1155 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[Kassites]]
  from:-1155 till:-1025 shift:(2,-2) color:orange text:[[Fourth Dynasty of Babylon|Isin]]
  from:-911 till:-626 shift:(-4,-2) color:red text:
  from:-626 till:end shift:(0,-2) color:orange text:[[Neo-Babylonian Empire|Kaldu]]

 bar:assyria
  from:-3000 till:-2300 shift:(2,-2) color:red text:[[Ebla]]
  from:-1900 till:-1600 shift:(2,-2) color:red text:[[Assyria|Old Assyrian]]
  from:-1600 till:-1240 shift:(2,-2) color:red text:[[Hurrians]]
  from:-911 till:-612 shift:(2,4) color:red text:[[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Neo-Assyrian]]

 bar:canaan
  from:-2000 till:-1600 shift:(4,-2) color:purple text:[[Amorites|"Amorites"]]
  from:-1450 till:-1200 shift:(4,-2) color:purple text:[[Ugarit]]
  from:-1030 till:-587 shift:(4,-2) color:purple text:[[History of ancient Israel and Judah|Israel and Judah]]

 bar:anatolia
 from:-2100 till:-1950 shift:(4,-2) color:green text:[[Troy|Troy IV]]
 from:-1750 till:-1550 shift:(4,-2) color:green text:[[Old Hittite Kingdom|Old Hittite]]
 from:-1400 till:-1160 shift:(4,-2) color:green text:[[New Hittite Kingdom|New Hittite]]
 from:-1160 till:-700 shift:(4,-2) color:green text:[[Neo-Hittite|Syro-Hittite polities, Urartu]]

  bar:mediterr
 from:-1900 till:-1700 shift:(2,-2) color:mediterr text:[[Minoan Crete|Protopalatial]]
 from:-1700 till:-1450 shift:(2,-2)  color:mediterr text:[[Minoan Crete|Neopalatial]]
 from:-1450 till:-1100 shift:(2,-2)  color:mediterr text:[[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean Greece]]
 from:-1100 till:-750 shift:(2,-2)  color:mediterr text:[[Greek Dark Ages]]
 from:-750 till:end shift:(2,-2)  color:mediterr text:[[Archaic period in Greece|Archaic Greece]]

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==See also==
*{{Tl|History of Anatolia}}
*{{Tl|Timeline of classical antiquity}}

[[Category:Ancient Near East templates|Timeline]]
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