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<timeline>
ImageSize = width:800 height:250
PlotArea  = width:720 height:200 left:65 bottom:20
AlignBars = justify

Colors = 
    id:time value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # 
    id:period value:rgb(1,0.7,0.5) # 
    id:egypt value:rgb(1,0.7,0.5) # 
    id:age value:rgb(1,0.75,0.5) # 
    id:maya value:rgb(1,0.75,0.5) # 
    id:era value:rgb(1,0.85,0.5) # 
    id:india value:rgb(1,0.85,0.5) # 
    id:eon value:rgb(1,0.95,0.5) # 
    id:mideast value:rgb(1,0.95,0.5) # 
    id:china value:rgb(0.7,0.7,1) # 
    id:filler value:gray(0.8) # background bar
    id:black value:black

Period     = from:-3000 till:600
TimeAxis   = orientation:horizontal
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:500 start:-3000
ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:100 start:-3000

PlotData =
  align:center textcolor:black fontsize:8 mark:(line,black) width:25 shift:(0,-5)

  bar:Time color:eon fontsize:10
  from: -3000 till: -2000 text:Old Period
  from: -2000 till: -1000 text:Early Period
  from: -1000 till:     0 text:Middle Period
  from:     0 till:   600 text:New Times

  bar:Egypt color:period fontsize:8
  from: -3000 till: -2055 text:[[Old_Kingdom|Early/Old Egypt]]
  from: -2055 till: -1650 text:[[Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt|Middle Egypt]]
  from: -1650 till:  -800 text:[[New Kingdom|Later Empires]]
  from:  -800 till:   500 text:[[Greek|Greek/Roman Empires]]

  bar:Peru color:era fontsize:8
  from: -3000 till: -1800 text:[[Norte Chico civilization|Caral-Supe]]
  from: -1800 till:  -900 text:[[Cultural periods of Peru|Initial Ceramic]]
  from:  -900 till:   200 text:[[Cultural periods of Peru|Early Horizon]]
  from:   200 till:   500 text:[[Cultural periods of Peru|Early Intermediate]]


  bar:India color:age fontsize:8
  from: -3000 till: -2700 text:[[Indus_Valley_Civilization|EarlyIndus]]
  from: -2700 till: -1900 text:[[Mature Harappan]]
  from: -1900 till: -1550 text:[[Cemetery_H_culture|Late Harappa]]
  from: -1550 till:  -600 text:[[Vedic Period]]
  from: -600  till:   500 text:[[History of India|Various kingdoms]]

  bar:China color:eon fontsize:8
  from: -3000 till: -2000 text:[[Three_Sovereigns_and_Five_Emperors]]
  from: -2000 till:  -1600 text:[[Xia_Dynasty|Xia]]
  from: -1600 till:  -1046 text:[[Shang_Dynasty|Shang]]
  from: -1046 till:   -256 text:[[Zhou_Dynasty|Zhou]]
  from: -256  till:   -206 text:[[Qin Dynasty|Qin]]
  from: -206  till:    220 text:[[Han Dynasty|Han]]
  
  bar:Maya color:period fontsize:8
  from: -3000 till: -2000 text:Pre-Mayan
  from: -2000 till:   250 text:[[Maya_civilization|Mayan Period]]
  from:  250  till:   500 text:[[Maya_civilization|Classic]]

  bar:Mideast color:era fontsize:8
  from: -3000 till:  -2750 text:[[Sumer|Early Sumer]]
  from: -2750 till:  -2300 text:[[Uruk|First Uruk]]
  from: -2300 till:  -2080 text:[[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian]]
  from: -2080 till:  -1800 text:[[Uruk|Third Uruk]]
  from: -1800 till:  -1170 text:[[Babylon|Old Babylon]]
  from: -1170 till:   -612 text:[[Assyrian]]
  from:  -612 till:   -300 text:Latter period 
  from:  -300 till:    500 text:Iran Kingdoms


  bar:Greece color:age fontsize:7
  from: -2700 till: -1600 text: [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]]
  from: -1600 till: -1100 text: [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]]
  from: -1100 till:  -750 text: [[Greek Dark Age|Dark Ages]]
  from:  -750 till:  -510 text: [[Archaic Greece|Archaic]]
  from:  -510 till:  -323 text: [[Classical Greece|Classical]]
  from:  -323 till:  -146 text: [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]]
  from:  -146 till:   500 text: [[Roman Greece|Roman/Byzantine Empires]]

</timeline>

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[[Category:Graphical timeline templates|World]]

{{documentation|content=
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The Template shows the Timeline of ancient world of Egyptian, Europian, Indian, Chinese, Mayan, and Sumerian.
The references are:
[http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/TIMELINE.HTM] 
[http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html] 
[http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm] 
[http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/TIMELINE.HTM].

}}
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