Fertile Crescent Peoples

By mchatila26
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 2004 BCE

    Sumerians

    Used irrigation and the plow for farming;
    developed cuneiform; formed govern
    ments; created tools and weapons with
    bronze; Sumerian city of Uruk was the
    world's first city.
  • Period: 2334 BCE to 2193 BCE

    Akkadians

    Sargon formed the world's first empire
  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Old Babylonians

    Formed a system of laws and government under Hammurabi
  • Period: 934 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrians

    Built a strong military state; Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal built the city of Nineveh.
  • Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE

    Neo-Babylonians

    Nebuchadnezzar II expanded Babylonia to the borders of Egypt; also restored Babylon by erecting a stone bridge across the Euphrates River and building the Hanging Gardens.
  • Period: 539 BCE to 331 BCE

    Persians

    Cyrus expanded the empire to Asia Minor, Ionia, India, and Babylon; Cambyses and Darius later expanded the empire more.