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3000 BCE
Sumerians
Sumerians were the creators of the first Mesopotamian Civilization. -
3000 BCE
Sumerians
Sumerians cities were surrounded by walls made of sun dried bricks. -
3000 BCE
Sumerians
Sumerians established a number of independent cities in southern Mesopotamia, including Eridu, UR, and Uruk. -
3000 BCE
City States
As cities expanded they started to have political and economic control over the surrounding country side, which formed the city states and that is the basic units of Sumerian civilization. -
3000 BCE
Sumerians
Sumerians believed that the gods ruled the cities, making the state a theocracy (government by divine authority). -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE
Old Babylonians
The city began its rise to power when King Hammurabi took control in 1792 BC -
Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE
Babylon
Hammurabi was the leader of Babylon who gained control of a new Mesopotamian kingdom after the fall of the akkadian empire. -
1781 BCE
The Assyrians
they first rose to power when the akkadian empire fell, but in 1781 they fell when their leader died and the babylonian empire took over. -
Period: 1360 BCE to 1074 BCE
Assyrians
they rose again, this time they conquered all of mesopotamia which included much of the middle east. -
Period: 626 BCE to 539 BCE
New Babylonians
Also known as the Neo-Babylonian Empire: or something related to the "2nd babylonian empire". -
612 BCE
Assyrian Empire
The Babylonians turned to be the most powerful state when the Assyrians took their fall in 612 BCE -
539 BCE
Old Babylonians
They took their fall once the Persian king Cyrus took on Babylonians. -
529 BCE
New Babylonians
Once again fell apart when the persians conquered the babylon and made it part of the persian empire.