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JAIN JOURNAL: Vol-XXXV, No. 4 April 2001 Prehistoric Age : 4000 B.C. to 1500 B.C.
Main Events
Chronology by centuries 4000 B.C.
Mesopotamia : Sumerian settlements of Sumer and Akkadia in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Egyptians settled in the Nile Valley Development of Agriculture in Egypt. First written records (Cunneiform writing) in Mesopotamia
3500 B.C. First Assyrian settlements in Mesopotamia.
Invention of Hieroglyphics in Egypt. 3102 B.C. Epoch of the Kali Yuga and of the Bhārata
War according to one school of astronomers. 3000 B.C. Pyramid texts (completed) 3000-2500 B.C. | Chinese settlement in the Yellow River Valley.
Migration of Indo-Hittite People. Agricultural Communities in Baluchistan. Growth of cities in Harappa and Mohenjodaro in
the Indus Valley (3000-2500 B.C.) 2800 B.C. Semitic Documents in Akkadia 2700 B.C.
Period of Indus Valley seals found in Kish. Some Jina
Images of Mohenjodaro and Harappa. 2500-2000 B.C. | Migration of the Indo-European People. 2449 B.C.
Date of heroes of the Bhārata War according to a
second group of astronomers and chronologists. 2000-1750 B.C. Indo-Iranian settlement. 1750-1500 B.C. Movenient of one group of the Indo-Iranian
People towards India (Proto-Iranian and Proto-Indo
Aryan stages of Indo-Iranian languages). 1500 B.C.
Settlement of the Indo-Aryan People. 1435 B.C. Aryan kings in Western Asia. 1414 B.C. Date of the Bhārata War according to certain
Purānas. 1375 B.C. Worship of Aryan deities in the land of Mitanni.
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