Ancient Mesopotamia

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  • 7500 BCE

    First cities

    Early cities developed in a number of regions, from Mesopotamia to Asia to the Americas. The very first cities were founded in Mesopotamia after the Neolithic Revolution, around 7500 BCE.
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 1800 BCE

    Sumerians Civilization

    The first civilization to rise in Mesopotamia. They used the rivers of Tigris and Euphrates, along with irrigation techniques. Sumerians lived in separate city-states. They invented one of the first writing systems called cuneiform. They had some of the first schools were students learned to read and write.
  • 3500 BCE

    Cuneiform invented

    Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500
  • 3500 BCE

    Invention of wheel

    The first wheels were not used for transportation. Evidence indicates they were created to serve as potter's wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia—300 years before someone figured out to use them for chariots.
  • 2150 BCE

    King Gilgamesh

    According to the Sumerian Royal List, Gilgamesh, son of the goddess Ninsun and a priest named Lillah, was ruler of the Kulab district and fifth king of the Uruk city.
  • 2000 BCE

    Horses domesticated

    Make people transport easilier.
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Old Assyrian Empire

    The Old Assyrian Empire is one of four periods in which the history of Assyria is divided, the other three being the Early Assyrian Period, the Middle Assyrian Empire, and the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Assyria was the height of technological, scientific and cultural achievements for its time.
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Babylonians

    Hammurabi created the Babylonian Empire in 1895 B.C. By conquering cities in Sumer. The beautiful city of Babylon was the center of the Babylonian empire. The Babylonians built roads throughout the empire. Trade made Babylon rich, but all the wealth that Babylon had gathered could not save it from conquest.
  • 1754 BCE

    Hammurabi’s code

    The code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest sets of laws that have been found and one of the best preserved example of this type of document created in ancient Mesopotamia.
  • 1731 BCE

    First library

    Make people entertain and gained more knowledge about all.
  • 1300 BCE

    Assyrians used iron weapons and chariots

    Iron was first utilized as a technology of war around 1300 bce by the Hittites.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 700 BCE

    Neo-Assyrian Empire

    It was the second civilization to rise. They lived in northern Mesopotamia near the start of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They invented the battering ram, a powerful weapon having a wooden beam mounted on wheel. The most feared were the armed charioteers who slashed the way through the enemy troops.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 587 BCE

    Israelites

    The Israelites were a confederation of Iron Age Semitic-speaking tribes of the ancient Near East, who inhabited a part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods. Modern archaeology has largely discarded the historicity of the religious narrative, with it being reframed as constituting an inspiring national myth narrative.
  • 1000 BCE

    First evidence of Phoenician alphabet

    The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BC. Before then the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script. The earliest known inscriptions in the Phoenician alphabet come from Byblos and date back to 1000 BC.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 700 BCE

    Phoenicians

    Phoenicia was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic speaking Mediterranean civilization that originated in the Levant in the west of the Fertile Crescent.Around 1050 BC, a Phoenician alphabet was used for the writing of Phoenician. It became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures, including the Roman alphabet used by Western Civilization today. They were masters at trade.
  • Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE

    Chaldeans

    Chaldea today is Iraq, east Syria, and south east Turkey. The Chaldeans controlled the Fertile Crescent and that was a big advantage beacause they could grow many crops, they could hunt more and drink more. Also they become again the center of learning and science, and Chaldean astronomers charted the paths of the stars and measured the length of a year.
  • Period: 539 BCE to 336 BCE

    Persian Empire

    The Persian Empire became one of the largests empires in history, with an extra of a global hub of culture, religion, science, art and technology for more than 200 years before it fell to the invading armies of Alexander the Great. The Persians were the first people to establish regular routes of communication between three continents Africa, Asia and Europe. They built many new roads and developed the world’s first postal service.
  • 331 BCE

    Alex the Great conquers Persians

    Alexander Defeats The Persians, 331 BC. Alexander began his war against the Persians in 334 BC.
  • 312 BCE

    First aqueducts

    Make the civilization more advanced because transported the water faster.