Aleppo 3000 to 2800 BC – Earliest evidence of Taxation found in Egypt 3rd millennium BC 3000 to 2000 BC – First domestication of the dromedaries in Somalia and southern Arabia 3000 to 2300 BC – First Kingdom of Ebla 2900 to 2350 BC – First ziggurats in Sumer 2900 to 2500 BC – First Kingdom of Mari 2800 BC – Beginning of Uruk's decline 2700 to 539 BC – Elam 2600 to 2350 BC – early Dynastic III period in Mesopotamia 2600 to 2300 BC – Kingdom of Nagar 2600 to 2025 BC – Early Assyrian Period 2575 to 2150 BC – Old Kingdom of Egypt 2560 BC – completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza 2500 BC – First use of war wagons as recorded by the Standard of Ur 2500 BC – First domestication of the camel in central Asia and Arabia 2500 BC – Ur-Nina first king of Lagash 2500 to 2290 BC – Second Kingdom of Mari 2340 to 2280 BC – Reign of Sargon of Akkad, founder of the dynasty of the Akkad 2334 to 2154 BC – Akkadian Empire 2300 to 2000 BC – Second Kingdom of Ebla 2266 to 1761 BC – Third Kingdom of Mari 2254 to 2218 BC – Naram-Sin of Akkad, under whom the empire reached its maximum strength and the first taking the title "god of Akkad" 2200 BC – Akkad taken by the Guti 2112 to 2094 BC – Ur-Nammu, founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur 2111 to 2004 BC – Third Dynasty of Ur 2052 to 1570 BC – Middle Kingdom in Egypt 2025 to 1378 BC – Old Assyrian Empire 2004 BC – Elamites destroy Ur 2004 to 1763 BC – Rise of the Amorites who established several city-states in Mesopotamia 2000 to 1600 BC – Third Kingdom of Ebla 2000 to 1334 BC – Kingdom of Qatna 2000 BC – First use of the spoke-wheel by the Andronovo culture and soon after used by horse cultures of the Caucasus region in war chariots 2nd millennium BC 1900 BC – Hittites Old Kingdom in Anatolia 1800 BC – civilization in Canaan 1800 to 1200 BC – the emergence of the city of Ugarit when it ruled a coastal kingdom, trading with Egypt, Cyprus, the Aegean, Syria, the Hittites, and others 1792 to 1750 BC – the reign of Hammurabi of the First Babylonian Dynasty,