Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Bronze Age he waahanga o te punaha o nga tau e toru. I roto i tenei punaha, ka whai ake i te Tau Neolithic i etahi waahanga o te ao. I te rautau 24 BC, i whakatuhia te Emepaea Akkadian. Ko te Wā Tuatahi o Ihipa (c. 22nd rautau BC) i whai ake i te Middle Kingdom o Ihipa i waenga i nga rautau 21 ki te 17th BC. I whakawhanakehia hoki te Renaissance Sumerian c. Te rau tau 21 o mua i te Karaiti. Tata ki te rau tau 18 BC,
I tiimata te wa tuarua o Ihipa. I te 1600 BC, i whakawhanakehia a Mycenaean Greece, i puta mai te timatanga o te Tangata o Shang i Haina, a, i kitea he tohu mo te punaha tuhituhi Hainamana kua tino whanakehia. I te taha o te 1600 BC, ka kitea te timatanga o te mana o Hittite o te rohe o te rawhiti o te Mediterranean. Mai i te rautau 16 ki te rautau 11 BC te New Kingdom o Ihipa i kaha ki te raorao o Naera. I waenga i te 1550 BC me te 1292 BC, i whakawhanakehia te Wā Amarna.