Talk:Timeline of Middle Eastern history

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"This is the region around which the ancient world revolved, which formed what could be termed universal human culture, and which gave us the world's major monothiestic religions." very strong argument, probably biased from a Middle Eastern perspective. Should be a) improved by giving reasons, e.g. lot of trade-routes to China, India, Greece... strong military, scientifically advanced... b) further expanded ben 08:35, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

I am going to change the structure of the page to make it more transparant and more similar to other timelines. I especially liked the structure of Timeline of planetary exploration, but see other articles in the category timelines as well. Ben (talk) 14:11, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] first very rough sketch

I took main-data from the millennia at centuries and transposed later the structure from History of the Middle East. Please help bringing the timeline in a good shape and add events (especially non-ancient) from either a) centuries, where you can look at the centuries (instead of millennia) what gives more detail, or b) (best) History of the Middle East or any other histories of a country in the region. Ben (talk) 17:28, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)

this has been lying idle for two years. I suggest it should be split: