Mesopotamia

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  • Early writing tablet
    3000 BCE

    Early writing tablet

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2350 BCE

    SUMERIAN

  • 2700 BCE

    The Sumerian King, Gilgamesh

    The Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, ruled the city of Uruk which had grown to a population of over 50,000. Gilgamesh was the subject of many epics, including the Sumerian “Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Nether World" and the Babylonian “Epic of Gilgamesh."
  • 2500 BCE

    Statue of a "praying Sumerian",

  • 2350 BCE

    Sargon instituted a central government.

    Sargon conquered the independent city-states of Sumer and instituted a central government.
  • Period: 2350 BCE to 1800 BCE

    AKKADIAN

  • monument celebrating victory against the Lullubi from Zagros
    2260 BCE

    monument celebrating victory against the Lullubi from Zagros

  • 2215 BCE

    death of Sargon the Great

  • 2193 BCE

    Gutian invasion destroys Akkadian empire.

  • Period: 1800 BCE to 1350 BCE

    BABYLONIAN

  • 1792 BCE

    Ereshkigal's place in the Mesopotamian Pantheon solidifies

    Ereshkigal's place in the Mesopotamian Pantheon solidifies during the reign of King Hammurabi of Babylon.
  • 1792 BCE

    King Hammurabi builds walls of Babylon.

  • 1763 BCE

    Hammurabi died

  • 1595 BCE

    Kassite Dynasty rules over Babylonia

  • Period: 1350 BCE to 539 BCE

    ASSYRIAN

  • 1275 BCE

    end of Adad Nirari I's reign

  • 1220 BCE

    Babylon is under Assyrian control

  • 627 BCE

    Death of King Ashurbanipal.

  • Period: 539 BCE to 1 BCE

    PERSIAN CONQUEST

  • 490 BCE

    Athens builds a treasury

    Athens builds a treasury at Delphi following their victory at Marathon against Persia
  • 485 BCE

    Xerxes, King of Persia destroys Babylon

  • 412 BCE

    Sparta allies with Persia.