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Period: 100,000 BCE to 8000 BCE
The Ice Age
Thick ice sheets covered parts of Europe, Asia, and North America. -
Period: 8000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Stone Age
People learned how to grow food, stay in one place to grow grains and vegetables, and gradually farming replaced hunting and gathereing. -
4000 BCE
Bronze Was Made
Craftspeople in western Asia mixed copper and tin to form bronze. It became widley used between 3000 B.C. and 1200 B.C. which was the period known as the Bronze Age. -
3000 BCE
Cities Are Being Formed
Many cities had formed in southern Mesopotamia in a region known as Sumer. -
2340 BCE
Sargon's Empire
Sargon, the king of the Akkadians, conquered all of Mesopotamia and he set up the world's first empire. His empire lasted for more than 200 years. -
1792 BCE
Hammurabi Began Conqering Cities
The Babylonian king, Hammurabi, began conquering cities to the north and south and created the Babylonian Empire. Hammurabi is best known for his law code. -
1750 BCE
Hammurabi's Law Code
King Hammurabi wrote 282 laws to govern th people of Babylon. -
900 BCE
Assyrians Take Over Mesopotamia
To defend their land, the Assyrians built a large army and they began taking over the rest of Mesopotamia. -
650 BCE
The Assyrians Fighting Over the King Spot
The Assyrians began fighting each other over who would be their next king. -
650 BCE
Persian Gulf
By 650 B.C. the empire strechted from the Persian Gulf in the east to Egypt's Nile River in the west.. -
612 BCE
The Chaldeans Rebel
The Chaldeans seized the oppurtunity to rebel. They captured Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire soon crumbled. -
Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE
The Chaldeans Controlled Mesopotamia
The Chaldeans were led by King Nebuchadnezzar and they controlled all of Mesopotamia.
