5100 BCE The world's oldest wine found at a Neolithic village site in Iran
3800 BCE The first bronze is smelted at Tepe Yahya (Western Iran)
2900 BCE First known use of cuneiform script.
2860 BCE Gilgamesh is crowned king of Uruk.
2334 BCE Sargon conquers Mesopotamia.
2250 BCE The development of the composite bow, it is able to penetrate leather armor and has twice the range of simple bows.
2060 BCE The re-unification of Egypt making the beginning of what is nowcalled the Middle Kingdom. Ur is sacked by the Elamites.
2000 BCE Knossos is founded by the Minoans in Crete.
1975 BCE The Egyptians conquer Nubia.
1800 BCE Aryan migration from Southern Russia to Near East.
1304 BCE Ramesses II is crowned the king of Egypt.
1300 BCE Hittites first use of iron for weapon
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