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Period: 3000 BCE to 2350 BCE
Sumer
First known civilization. In modern day Iraq -
Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE
Royal Road
built by Darius -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1595 BCE
Old Babylonian Empire
Creates 1st written lawcode -
Period: 1100 BCE to 2016 BCE
Phoenicians
Powerful traders in wealthy cities/ colonies along -
Period: 1100 BCE to 612 BCE
Assyrians
had a standing army of 100,000- 200,000 men -
Period: 705 BCE to 681 BCE
Sennacherib
King of Assyria -
Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE
King Ashurbanild
Collects over 20,000 clay tablets -
Period: 612 BCE to 206 BCE
The Assyrian Empire Crumbles
Civil War weakens them -
Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar
The Chalden King who restores Babylon as Capital -
Period: 550 BCE to 530 BCE
Cyrus the Great
Conqueres neighboring lands and creates the persian empire -
Period: 539 BCE to 331 BCE
The Persians
Begin east of Mesopotamia -
Period: 530 BCE to 522 BCE
Cambyses III
Conqueres egypt -
Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE
Darius I
Seizes control of the Persian Empire with help of the 10,000 Immortals -
Period: 486 BCE to 465 BCE
Xerxes
Son of Darius I -
Period: 465 BCE to 2016 BCE
Greco-Persian Wars
Xerxes is defeated by the Greeks -
Period: 200 BCE to 1190 BCE
Hittittes
Take over northern Mesopatimia -
Period: 195 to 2016 BCE
NEO Babyloian Empire
Conquered the Assyrians and is later taken over by the Persians