Eras Beginning from 3300 to 626 BCE

the period spanning c. 2700, c. 2200 BC

Chronologically, it spans from around the 10th century BC or 9th-8th century BC to the mid-3rd century AD

The Spring and Autumn period (c. 770, c. 481 BCE)

The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500, c. 500 BCE)

King Hammurabi ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC

Early Bronze Age (EBA or EB): 3300-2100 BC

The Preclassic period ran from 2500 BCE to 200 CE.

The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.

The Olmecs () or Olmec were an early major Mesoamerican civilization, flourishing in the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco from roughly 1200 to 400 BC during Mesoamerica's formative period.

Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612-609 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC, less than a century after the founding of the Chaldean dynasty.

The New Kingdom (circa 1570 to circa 1069 BCE) is the era in Egyptian history following the disunity of the Second Intermediate Period

The city of Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2350/2334-2154 BCE), the first multinational political entity in the world

While the history of the overall country is quite ancient, the Kingdom of Kush flourished between c. 1069 BCE and 350 CE.

The Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE) is considered ancient Egypt 's Classical Age, during which it produced some of its greatest works of art and literature .

This same situation holds for the end of the period, in that some scholars cite the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at 612 BCE with the fall of Ashur and Nineveh , while others claim 610 BCE as the final date because all of the cities had by that time been destroyed.