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Period: 3500 BCE to 1700 BCE
Sumerians
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Period: 2025 BCE to 1378 BCE
Old Assyrian empire
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Period: 1787 BCE to 1500 BCE
Babylonians
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Period: 1200 BCE to 587 BCE
Israelites
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Period: 1100 BCE to 700 BCE
Phoenicians
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Period: 911 BCE to 609 BCE
Neo Assyrian empire
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Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE
Chaldeans
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578 BCE
King Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem and exiles Israelites
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Period: 550 BCE to 330 BCE
Persians
