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Period: 3000 BCE to 2330 BCE
SUMERIAN PERIOD
The written language was invented, the wheel, and the bricks. -
Period: 2330 BCE to 1800 BCE
AKKADIAN EMPIRE
King Sargon l conquered Sumer and stablished the Akkadian Empire -
Period: 1800 BCE to 1356 BCE
BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
Babylon moved into power. Hammurabi, the Babylonian king, took power of Mesopotamia. They imposed the code of Hammurabi, wich is one of the earliest law codes. -
Period: 1356 BCE to 612 BCE
ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
Ashurbanipal, their last great king conquered many territories.