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Mesopotamia

By Kavindu
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Mesopotamia history

  • 3500 BCE

    Cities grown over Mesopotamia

  • 3200 BCE

    Pictographic record keeping

  • 3000 BCE

    Signs used to write sumerian

  • 2800 BCE

    Legendary rulers like Gilgamesh

  • 2600 BCE

    Royal tombs of Ur were built

  • 2400 BCE

    Signs become cuneiform

  • 2300 BCE

    Sumerian cities united by King Sargon of Agade (Akkad)

  • 2200 BCE

    Agade empire expands and declines

  • 2100 BCE

    Ur becomes the capital of a new empire

  • 2000 BCE

    Ur destroyed by Elamites and Amorites

  • 1900 BCE

    Akkadian becomes the main spoken and written language

  • 1800 BCE

    Hammurabi unites much of Mesopotamia

  • 1600 BCE

    Hittites raid Babylon

  • 1500 BCE

    Mitannian Empire controls north Mesopotamia Kassites control south Mesopotamia

  • 1300 BCE

    Assyrians conquer much of Mesopotamia

  • 1100 BCE

    Aramaean and Chaldaean tribes become importan.

  • 1000 BCE

    Assyrians being recon quest of Mesopotamia

  • 900 BCE

    King Ashurnasirpal II has Nimrud built

  • 700 BCE

    King Sennacherib has Nineveh built Egypt conquered by Assyria

  • 600 BCE

    Assyria destroyed by Chaldeans Babylon rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II

  • 500 BCE

    Mesopotamia becomes part of the Achaemenid Persian empire

  • 400 BCE

    Alexander the Great defeats the Persians

  • 300 BCE

    Seleucid empire was established

  • 200 BCE

    Parthian empire was established