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Period: 3000 BCE to 2350 BCE
sumerial
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2980 BCE
low mesopotamia
The Sumerians created a set of city-states in Lower Mesopotamia: Uruk, Lagaš, Kiš, Uma, Ur, Eridu and Ea whose economy was based on irrigation -
2500 BCE
invasion of mesopotamia
the Semitic tribes (Arabs, Hebrews and Syrians) constantly invaded the Mesopotamian region -
Period: 2350 BCE to 1800 BCE
akkadian
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2100 BCE
Sumerian Renaissance
According to a commemorative tablet it was Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, who defeated and expelled the gutis rulers from the Sumerian lands -
Period: 1800 BCE to 1350 BCE
babylonian
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Period: 1350 BCE to 539 BCE
assyrian
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1250 BCE
asirios
Towards 1,250 a.C. the Assyrians, who took control of the whole country, settled in the north of Babylon -
600 BCE
the Neobabylons
Babylon re-emerged with the Chaldeans, another Semitic tribe, when it was re-founded by its king Nabopolassar, at the end of the 7th century. -
539 BCE
Persian invasion
the Persian king Cyrus, the new king of Asia, occupied Babylon and established his power throughout Mesopotamia. -
Period: 539 BCE to 1 BCE
persian conquest