mesopotamia timeline

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    2700 B.C. The famous Sumerian King Gilgamesh rules the city-state of Ur.

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    2330 B.C. Sargon i of the Akkadians conquers most of the Sumerian city states and creatas the world's first empire, the Akkadian.

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    2100 B.C. After the Akkandian Empire crumbles, the Sumerians once again gain power. the city of Ur is rebuilt.

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    3200 B.C. The Sumerians begin to use the wheel.

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    3000 B.C. The Sumerians started to implement mathematics using a number system with base 60.

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    2400 B.C. The Sumerian language is replaced by the Akkadian language as the primary spoken language in Mesopotamia.

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    2250 King Naram-Sin of the Akkadians expands the empire to its largest state. He will rule for 50 years.

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    2000 B.C. The Elamites cature Ur.

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    1900 B.C. The Assyrians rise to power in northern mesopotamia.

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    1792 B.C. Hammurabi becomes king of babylon. He estabilshes the code of Hammurabi and babylon soon takes over much of mesopotamia.

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    1781 B.C. King shamshi-Adad of the Assyrians dies. The First Assyrian Empire is soon taken over by the babylonians.

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    1750 B.C. Hammurabi dies and the first babylonian Empire begins to fall apert.

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    1595 B.C. The kassites take city of babylon.

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    1360 B.C. The Assyrians once again rise in power.

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    1250 B.C. The Assyrians begin to use iron weapons and chariots.

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    1225 B.C. The Assyrians capture Babylon.

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    1115 B.C. The second Assyrian Empire reaches its peak under the rule of Tiglath-Piliser l.

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    1077 B.C. Tiglath-Piliser dies and the Assyrian Empire becomes weaker for a time.

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    744 B.C. The Assyrian Empire become strong once again under the rule of Tiglath-Piliser lll.

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    721 B.C. King Sargon ll takes control of Assyria. The empire grows stronger.

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    705 B.C. Sargon ll dies and Sennecherib becomes king. He moves the capital to Niveveh.

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    668 B.C. Ashurbanipal dies and Assyria begins to crumble.

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    616 B.C. Nabopolassar dies and Neuchadnezzar ll bcomes King of babylon. He will rule for 43 years and bring the Babylonian Empire to its peak.

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    709 B.C. Sargon ll takes control the city of babylon.