Table 5.1.

Ancient Near East and Middle East Periodization Chart

Copper Age	Chalcolithic (4500–3300 bce)	Early Chalcolithic	4500–4000 bce	Ubaid period
		Late Chalcolithic	4000–3300 bce	Ghassulian, Uruk period, Gerzeh, Predynastic Egypt
Bronze Age (3300–1200 bce)	Early Bronze Age (3300–2000 bce)	Early Bronze Age 1	3300–3000 bce	Protodynastic to Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
		Early Bronze Age II	3000–2700 bce	Early Dynastic Period of Sumer
		Early Bronze Age III	2700–2200 bce	Old Kingdom of Egypt, Akkadian Empire
		Early Bronze Age IV	2200–2100 bce	First Immediate Period of Egypt
	Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 bce)	Middle Bronze Age I	2100–2000 bce	Middle Kingdom of Egypt and end of Sumer
		Middle Bronze Age IIA	2000–1750 bce	Minoan civilization and Begining of End of Indus Valley Civilization
		Middle Bronze Age IIB	1750–1650 bce	Second Intermediate Period of Egypt
		Middle Bronze Age IIC	1650–1550 bce	Hittite Old Kingdom, Minoan eruption
	Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 bce)	Late Bronze I	1550–1400 bce	Hittite Middle Kingdom
		Late Bronze Age IIA	1400–1300 bce	Hittite New Kingdom, Mitanni, Ugarit and End of Indus Valley Civilization
		Late Bronze Age IIB	1300–1200 bce	(Dark Age, Sea Peoples)
Iron Age (1200–539 bce)	Iron Age I (1200–1000 bce)	Iron Age IA	1200–1150 bce	Troy V II, Hekla 3 eruption
		Iron Age IB	1150–1000 bce	Neo-Hittite states
	Iron Age II (1000–539 bce)	Iron Age IIA	1000–900 bce	Neo-Assyrian Empire
		Iron Age IIB	900–700 bce	Kingdom of Israel, Urartu, Phrygia
		Iron Age IIC	700–539 bce	Neo-Babylonian Empire