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9000 BC: People live in a walled community at Jericho, a crossroads town at a spring-fed oasis near the Jordan River. It would grow into a city.

About 5000 BC: Barley and flax farmers dig networks of irrigation canals and build villages along those canals between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what would become Iraq.

About 3100 BC: King Menes unites Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt into one kingdom with its capital at Memphis.

2000 BC: Egypt conquers the neighboring Kush culture to the south.

About 1700 BC: Earthquakes and sudden mass flooding may be responsible for ending the sophisticated Indus River Valley civilization.

512 BC: Cyrus, a young Persian king, leads troops against his grandfather, king of the Medes.

404 BC: Sparta defeats Athens in the 27-year Peloponnesian War.

323 BC: While staying in Babylon, Alexander the Great comes down with a sudden fever and dies.