City Timeline

Jericho is the first major walled city, with a population of about 2,500.

First walled cities. Uruk in Mesopotamia first city.

Uruk Period in Mesopotamia. First cities.

First settlement of Ur.

Priests become the rulers of Mesopotamian cities.

First Bronze Age settlement in Jerusalem.

Mari, the earliest known planned city, is built near the eastern bank of the Euphrates.

Troy VI - probable Troy of Homer's Iliad. City at its zenith.

The legendary founding date of Rome.

The Inca, led by Manco Capac, migrate to the Cuzco Valley and establish their capital at Cuzco.

Traditional date for the founding of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on Lake Texcoco.