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Aug 27, 605
Nebuchadnezzar II becomes king of Babylon
King Nebuchadnezzar was consider one of the best kings of ancient Babylon defeating many different regions and empries.Under his reign, Babylon became the most powerful city-state in the region and Nebuchadnezzar II himself the greatest warrior-king and ruler in the known world
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Aug 27, 1220
Babylon is under Assyrian control
Babylon was always the better empire until in 1220 B.C when Assyria attack babylon and won. Assyrians destroyed the city of Babylon and was later rebuilt to honor Marduk. -
Sep 3, 1400
Assyria regains its independence.
Surrounding nations ultimately proved to be too powerful for the opportunistic Mitanni, chipping away at Mitanni territory until completely swallowing it in the 15th century. Being outnumbered, and without natural geographic boundaries/barriers, a continual theme of Mesopotamia repeats itself in the case of the Mitanni as well. Most of Mitanni fell under Assyrian ruleAfter the collapse of Mitanni, Assyria regained its independence and was able to retain it thanks to the weakness of its neighbors -
Trade flourishes between Mesopotamia and other regions
Mesopatamia was a country that had limited resources so the people who lived there traded to get the resources they needed and made the country sucessful.Grain, oils and textiles were taken from Babylonia to foreign cities and exchanged for timber, wine, precious metals and stones. In addition, merchants from other countries travelled to Babylonia to exchange their goods
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Ancient Mesopotamian
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Early bronze age
Bronze took over copper and was now used to make tools and weapons.The rise of the city-state laid the foundation for economic and political stability which would eventually lead to the rise of the Akkadian Empire
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Rise of the Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian empire ruled a vast expanse of mesoptamia built by the king sargon the Great who unified Mesopotamia under the rule of his Akkadian Empire and set the standard for future forms of government in Mesopotamia
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The Summerians being to use wheels
The concept of the wheel actually grew out of a mechanical device that the Sumerians had invented shortly after 3500 B.C.—the potter’s wheel. No other civilization of their time had one. This was a heavy flat disk made of hardened clay. It was spun horizontally on an axis to allow the potter to form evenly shaped jars and bowls from wet clay. The Sumerians didn’t, however, simply turn this clay-splattered wheel on its end and hook it to a wagon to make a wheel. -
Writing begins to be developed
At first this is based on pictograms, and takes about a thousand years to evolve into a full cuneiform script.The first known writing derives from the lower reaches of the two greatest rivers in this extended region, the Nile and the Tigris. So the two civilizations separately responsible for this totally transforming human development are the Egyptian and the Sumerian.
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The Sumerians build their first temple
Because there's practically no building stone in this area, but there's lots of clay, Sumerian architects built their buildings out of mud-brick or fired brick. This was so early that the architects didn't know how to make a big building stay up if it was hollow inside, so the first big buildings are solid - like a sand-castle - rather than really useful as buildings.
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The city of Eridu is founded
Eridu (present day Abu Shahrein, Iraq) was considered the first city in the world by the ancient Sumerians and, certainly, is among the most ancient of ruins. Founded in circa 5400 BCE, Eridu was thought to have been created by the gods and was home to the great water god Enki
http://www.ancient.eu/eridu/
