CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
| UPPER EGYPT | LOWER EGYPT | NORTH MESOPOTAMIA | SOUTH MESOPOTAMIA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tasian Period | 5000 ? | ||
| Fayum A | Hassunah Period | ||
| Badarian Period | Samarran | ||
| Amratian Period | Merimde | Halaf Period | Eridu |
| Northern Ubaid Period | Southern Ubaid Period | ||
| 3900 ? | |||
| Gawra Period | Warka Period | ||
| 3750 ? | |||
| Early Gerzean Period | Early Protoliterate Period | ||
| Maadi | |||
| Late Gerzean Period | Late Protoliterate Period | ||
| 3100 | Ninevite Period | 3100 | |
| Protodynastic Period: | I | Early Dynastic Period | |
| Dynasties | II | ||
| 2664 | |||
| III | |||
| IV | |||
| Old Kingdom: | V | 2425 | |
| Dynasties | Proto-Imperial Period 2340 | ||
| VI | North Akkadian Period | Dynasty of Akkad 2180 | |
| 2181 |
Footnotes
[1]A. N. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas (New York, 1933), pp. 13, 14.
[2]O. Spengler, Der Untergang des Abendlandes (München, 1920).
[3]“Der Aufbau der europäischen Kulturgeschichte,” in Schmoller’s Jahrbuch für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft im Deutschen Reiche, XLIV (1920), 633 ff.
[4]O. Spengler, op. cit., I, 153.
[5]O. Spengler, op. cit., I, 29.
[6]Spengler’s position is invalidated in his own terms by Bergson’s criticism of a deterministic view of life in nature.