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Fifth Dynasty royal pyramid complexes and mortuary architecture (c. 2494–2345 BCE)

2494 BCE - 1898 BCE

Fall of Babylon: Cyrus's Conquest and the Achaemenid Transition (539–530 BCE)

539 BCE - 530 BCE

Evolution of writing: bronze inscriptions to early script in the Zhou Dynasty (c.11th–3rd centuries BCE)

1046 BCE - 300 BCE

Eridu: Temple City and Early Sumerian Settlement Sequence (c. 5400–2000 BCE)

5400 BCE - 2016

Enfeoffment and the feudal order of early Western Zhou (c.1046–900 BCE)

1046 BCE - 900 BCE

Empire-wide Military Campaigns and Frontier Conflicts of the Akkadian Empire (c. 2334–2193 BCE)

2334 BCE - 2154 BCE

Elaboration and meanings of Olmec iconography (were‑jaguar, felines, serpents) (c. 1400–400 BCE)

400 - 1200

El Manatí sacrificial offerings and ritual deposits (c. 1600–900 BCE)

1700 BCE - 1989

Egyptian Control and Administration of Nubia: Campaigns, Forts, and Trade (c. 1500–1100 BCE)

1529 BCE - 1264 BCE

Economic and agricultural change in Zhou states: iron, land use, and monetization (c.8th–3rd centuries BCE)

221 - 800

Economic Administration and Long-Distance Trade in Old Babylon (c. 1900–1600 BCE)

1894 BCE - 1595 BCE

Eastern Zhou (771–256 BCE)

771 BCE - 249 BCE

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