Unit 1 timeline

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  • 5000 BCE

    Discovery of Mesopotamia

    Evidence of human culture
  • 4700 BCE

    Hassunah period

    Earliest pottery making culture
  • 3900 BCE

    Ubaid period

    First evidence of temples and other architecture
  • 3600 BCE

    Warka period

    First civilization of Mesopotamia and first stages of written language
  • 2900 BCE

    Pre-dynastic sumerians

    The earliest known civilization of Mesopotamia
  • 2750 BCE

    First sumerian dynasty

    First rulers of the dynasty from the city of Ur
  • 2340 BCE

    Sargon I begins

    Akkadian is the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia which discovered the first postal system by using clay tablets messages that led to the oldest cuneiform script
  • 1800 BCE

    Old Babylonian period

    Dynasty leaders gained and ruled over large southern parts of Mesopotamia
  • 1728 BCE

    Hammurabi

    Author of first known code of laws
  • 1600 BCE

    Hittite hegemony over Mesopotamia

    Known for skill building and the use of chariots
  • 1520 BCE

    Periods of Kassite dominance

    Established the middle Babylonian dynasty
  • 1200 BCE

    Assyrian period

    Developments of government and military and known as a city-state
  • 714 BCE

    Reign of Sennacherib

    Destroyed temple of Jerusalem and deported Hebrews
  • 668 BCE

    Reign of Ashurbanipal

    Was the largest empire in the world and he was known as a ruthless military leader
  • 612 BCE

    Fall of Nineveh

    The Babylonians mustered their army and destroyed the city after three months of laying siege
  • 539 BCE

    Fall of Babylonian and beginning of Persian dominance in Mesopotamia

    Babylonians fell to the Persians
  • 499 BCE

    Rebellion of Greek cities

    The Ionian revolt were made of military rebellions and revolted against the Persians
  • 480 BCE

    Invasion of Greece by Xerxes

    360,000 Xerxes soldiers invaded Greece
  • 400 BCE

    Beginnings of Mithraism

    The earliest references to the Persian Mithra
  • 250 BCE

    Founding of Manicheism

    A preacher and healer to Mesopotamia and lived in the development of major religions