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Sep 8, 600
Assyria destroyed by Chaldeans
The Chaldeans were tribal groups that moved into Babylonia around 1000 B.C. In 626 B.C. a Chaldean chief called Nabopolassar was crowned king of Babylonia. He defeated the Assyrians in 612 B.C. and his dynasty lasted until 539 B.C. when it was defeated by the Persians. -
Sep 8, 700
King Sennacherib has Nineveh built
Sennacherib was the son and successor of Sargon II, from whom he inherited an empire that extended from Babylonia to southern Palestine and into Asia Minor. Before his accession he served, with ability demonstrated by his extant reports, as a senior administrator and diplomat in the north and northwest of the empire. The main problem of his reign was in Babylonia, where the growth of the power of the Chaldean and Aramaean tribes seriously disturbed the old urban centres, whose interests in comme -
Sep 7, 1100
Aramaean and Chaldaean tribes become important
Aramaic is the ancient language of the Semitic family group, which includes the Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Arameans, Hebrews, and Arabs. In fact, a large part of the Hebrew and Arabic languages is borrowed from Aramaic, including the Alphabet. The modern Hebrew (square) script is called "Ashuri", "Ashuri" is the Hebrew name for Assyrian. -
Sep 7, 1200
Assyrians conquer much of Mesopotamia
After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Amorites were the next people to dominate Mesopotamia. The Amorites were a Semitic tribe that moved into central Mesopotamia. King Hammurabi of the city of Babylon is the most famous of the Amorite rulers. Hammurabi founded an empire known as the Babylonian Empire, which was named after his capital city. Hammurabi ruled from about 1792-1750 BC. -
Sep 7, 1400
Mitannian Empire controls north Mesopotamia Kassites control south Mesopotamia
The Kassites may have come from the mountains to the east of Mesopotamia, and ruled Babylonia from about 1500 B.C. until 1150 B.C. They were the longest ruling dynasty in Babylonian history. -
Hittites raid Babylon
Probably originating from the area beyond the Black Sea, the Hittites first occupied central Anatolia, making their capital at Hattusa (modern Bogazköy). Early kings of the Hittite Old Kingdom, such as Hattusilis I (reigned c. 1650-c. 1620 BC), consolidated and extended Hittite control over much of Anatolia and northern Syria. Hattusilis' grandson Mursilis I raided down the Euphrates River to Babylon, putting an end (c. 1590 BC) to the Amorite dynasty there. After the death of Mursilis, a dynast -
Hammurabi unites much of Mesopotamia
Hammurabi was king of Babylon (1792 -1750) and conquered much of Mesopotamia in the last ten years of his reign.One of the earliest and most complete ancient legal codes was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, who reigned from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Hammurabi expanded the city-state of Babylon along the Euphrates River to unite all of southern Mesopotamia. His code, a collection of 282 laws and standards, stipulated rules for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments. -
King Ashurnasirpal II has Nimrud built
The annals of Ashurnasirpal II give a detailed account of the campaigns of his first six years as king and show him moving from one corner of his empire to another.Ashurnasirpal used the captives from his campaigns to rebuild the city of Calah, which had been founded by Shalmaneser I (reigned c. 1263–c. 1234 bce) but was then only a ruin. By 879 bce the main palace in the citadel, the temples of Ninurta and Enlil, shrines for other deities, and the city wall had been completed
