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Mesopotamian

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  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Early Sumer Civiization

    5000 BC - The Sumer form the first towns and cities use irrigation to farm large areas of land.
    4000 BC - The Sumer establish powerful city-states with large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to the gods.
    3500 BC - lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by numerous Sumer city-states such as Ur, Uruk, and Eridu..
  • Period: 3300 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Age of improvement

    3300 BC - Sumerians invent the first writing, using pictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets.
    3200 BC - The Sumerians begin to use the wheel on vehicles
    3000 BC - The Sumerians start to implement mathematics
  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Begining of power changes

    2700 BC Famous Sumerian King Gilgamesh rules city-state of Ur.
    2400 BC - Sumerian language replaced by the Akkadian language
    2330 BC - Sargon I of the Akkadians conquers most of Sumerian city states and creates the world's first empire, the Akkadian Empire.
    2250 BC - King Naram-Sin of the Akkadians expands empire to largest state. rules for 50 years.
    2100 BC - Akkadian Empire crumbles Sumerians gain power, Ur is rebuilt.
    2000 BC - Elamites capture Ur
  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1595 BCE

    Conutining of power changes

    1900 BC - Assyrians rise to power in northern Mesopotamia.
    1792 BC - Hammurabi becomes king of Babylon. Establishes the Code of Hammurabi and Babylon takes over much of Mesopotamia.
    1781 BC - King Shamshi-Adad of the Assyrians dies. The First Assyrian Empire is soon taken over by the Babylonians.
    1750 BC - Hammurabi dies and the First Babylonian Empire begins to fall apart.
    1595 BC - The Kassites take the city of Babylon.
  • Period: 1360 BCE to 744 BCE

    Second assyrian empire

    1360 BC - The Assyrians once again rise in power.
    1250 BC - The Assyrians begin to use iron weapons and chariots.
    1225 BC - The Assyrians capture Babylon.
    1115 BC - The Second Assyrian Empire reaches its peak under the rule of King Tiglath-Piliser I.
    1077 BC - Tiglath-Piliser dies and the Assyrian Empire becomes weaker for a time.
    744 BC - The Assyrian Empire becomes strong once again under the rule of Tiglath-Piliser III.
  • Period: 721 BCE to 626 BCE

    Assyria

    721 BC - King Sargon II takes control of Assyria. The empire grows stronger.
    709 BC - Sargon II takes control of the city of Babylon.
    705 BC - Sargon II dies and Sennacherib becomes king. Moves the capital to Nineveh.
    668 BC - Ashurbanipal becomes the last great King of Assyria. He establishes a great library in the city of Nineveh.
    626 BC - Ashurbanipal dies and Assyria begins to crumble.
  • Period: 616 BCE to 539 BCE

    Nabopolassar and Cyrus the Great

    616 BC - Nabopolassar takes control of Babylon back from the Assyrians crowns himself king. The neo-Babylonian empire begins.
    604 BC - Nabopolassar dies and Nebuchadnezzar II becomes King of Babylon. rules for 43 years and brings the Babylonian Empire to its peak.
    550 BC - Cyrus the Great rises to power, the Persian Empire begins.
    539 BC - Cyrus the Great takes the city of Babylon and lets the Jewish people return to Israel.
  • Period: 522 BCE to 518 BCE

    Persian Empire

    522 BC - Darius I becomes King of Persia. He expands the empire and divides it up into states each ruled by a governor called a satrap.
    518 BC - Darius I establishes the capital of the Persian Empire at Persepolis.
  • Period: 490 BCE to 333 BCE

    Battle with the Greeks

    490 BC - Darius I attacks the Greeks. He is defeated at the Battle of Marathon.
    480 BC - Xerxes I tries to conquer the Greeks with a huge army. He is eventually turned back in defeat.
    333 BC - Alexander the Great invades the land and conquers the Persian Empire.