Mesopotamia

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  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2530 BCE

    Sumer

  • Period: 2350 BCE to 2150 BCE

    Akkadians

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1595 BCE

    Old Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1190 BCE

    Hittite Empire

  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    King Hammurabi

  • Period: 1595 BCE to 1160 BCE

    Kassites and other groups

  • 1500 BCE

    Hittites Take over northern Mesopotamia

  • 1500 BCE

    First iron Weapons

  • 1274 BCE

    Battle of Kadesh

  • 1190 BCE

    Tribes attacked from the north, Capital Burned, Hittite empire falls

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 824 BCE

    Phonecian Empire

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrian Empire

  • Period: 705 BCE to 681 BCE

    King Sennecharib

  • Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE

    King Ashurbanipal

  • Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE

    Neo-Babylonian Empire

  • Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar

  • Period: 550 BCE to 530 BCE

    Cyrus the Great

  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus conquered Babylon in a “bloodless victory”

  • Period: 539 BCE to 331 BCE

    Persian Empire

  • 530 BCE

    Cyrus Dies in battle