Mesopotamia

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1 BCE

    Mesopotamia

  • 2334 BCE

    Imperí accadi

    Imperí accadi
    The Empire was a great kingdom of Mesopotamia formed from the conquests of Sargon. He stayed for 140 years between the XXIV centuries BC and XXII BC in which five monarchs succeeded: Sargon himself, his sons Rimuix and Manixtuixu, his grandson Naram-Sin and his son, Xar-Kali -Match.
  • 2008 BCE

    Imperi Sumerian

    Is a historical region of the Middle East, southern part of ancient Mesopotamia, between the alluvial plains of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The Sumerian civilization is considered as the first and oldest civilization in the world. Although the origin of its inhabitants, the Sumerians, is uncertain, there are numerous hypotheses about their origins, the most accepted currently arguing that there would have been no cultural break with the Uruk period, which would rule out external factors
  • 1895 BCE

    Babylonia

    Mesopotamia was divided into two satrapies: Assyria and Babylon (538-331 BC). The Achaemenids were so respectful of the customs and religion of the country that they even incorporated the Babylonian into their monumental inscriptions. This did not prevent the revolts: two under Darius I, the first work of Nidintubel, which adopted the name of Nabucodonosor III, and the second of Arahah arameo, and another in the reign of Xerxes I, the which defeated his captain Šamaš-irba and ruined Babylonia
  • 605 BCE

    Assiris

    Assiris
    (605-562 BC), the most important monarch of the Assyrian dynasty, conquered Jerusalem (598 BC), conquest that I repeated the 586, and then deported the Jews ("Babylonian captivity"). The last sovereign, Nabonid (556-539 BC), planted Persian Persian Cir II the Great, but unnecessarily, for this conquering Babylon and ending the dynasty.
  • 550 BCE

    Persian

    Persian
    Mesopotamia was divided into two satrapies: Assyria and Babylon (538-331 BC). The Achaemenids were so respectful of the customs and religion of the country that they even incorporated the Babylonian into their monumental inscriptions. This did not prevent the revolts: two under Darius I, the first work of Nidintubel, which adopted the name of Nabucodonosor III, and the second of Arahah arameo, and another in the reign of Xerxes I, the which defeated his captain Šamaš-irba and ruined Babylonia