Mesopotamian history

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  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    Pre-Pottery Neolithic Age, Also known as The Stone Age

    The urbanization of Mesopotamia started. The change from Hunters and gatherers to farmers happened during this age, slowly. Tribes fought each other over fertile land and crops. They relied on agriculture and animal husbandry for food. People started to create permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, as well as more sophisticated systems of agriculture.
  • Period: 7000 BCE to 5900 BCE

    Pottery Neolithic Age

    There was a widespread of stone tools and weaponry, as well as pottery. Manufacturing processes of ceramics and stone tools/weapons started. Completely permanent settlements were being developed, as well as more sophisticated and advanced ways to do things.
  • Period: 5900 BCE to 3200 BCE

    Copper Age

    People stopped using stone tools and started using copper ones. The city-states Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Kish, Nuzi, Lagash, Nippur, and Ngirsu emerged in Sumer, the new empire. In Elam, Susa emerged. Uruk was the earliest city-state in Mesopotamia. Many inventions were invented during this period.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3500 BCE

    the invention of the wheel

  • Period: 3200 BCE to 3200 BCE

    The first war (fought between Sumer and Elam, Sumer won)

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    The invention of cuneiform, the worlds first writing system

  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2119 BCE

    Early bronze age

    Bronze replaced copper as the material used for tools and weapons. There was political and cultural stability allowing for the invention of the plough, the chariot, the sailboat and the cylinder-seal.
  • Period: 2350 BCE to 2350 BCE

    The rise of the Akkadian empire.

    The city state of Akkad became powerful enough to take over Mesopotamia, starting a new empire.
  • Period: 2119 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Middle Bronze age

    The city-states expanded, and Babylon emerged in city states Babylon and Chaldea. The Guti tribe toppled the Akkadian empire and took over politics, until they were defeated by the the armed forces of the kings. Babylon became a leading center in intellectual and cultural practices. But the center was sacked and looted by the Hittites, which were followed by the Kassites.
  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Hammurabi started-ended ruling.

  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Late Bronze age

    The rise of the Kassite Dynasty leads to a shift in power and an expansion of culture and learning. The Babylon culture was declining, but the Elamites drove the Kassites out and let the Armean s come to Mesopotamia. They took over and the Assyrian Empire was firmly established. Most Mesopotamian states were either destroyed or weakened following the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BCE.
  • Period: 1000 BCE to 500 BCE

    Iron age

    The rise and expansion of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Neo-Hittite and Neo-Babylonian empires.