Ancient Mesopotamia

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  • Period: 5000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Sumerians

    Sumerians form the first towns and cities. Irrigation was used to farm large areas of land.
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Sumerians

    The sumerians establish powerful city-states, building large ziggurats in the center of the cities as temples to their gods.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3300 BCE

    Sumerians

    Lower Mesopotamia is inhabited by numerous Sumer city-states such as Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Kish, Lagash and Nippur.
  • Period: 3300 BCE to 3200 BCE

    Sumerians

    The Sumerians invent the first writing. They use pictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets.
  • Period: 3200 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Sumerians

    The Sumerians begin to use the wheel on vehicles.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2700 BCE

    Sumerians

    Mathematics is implemented using a number system with a base of 60.
  • Period: 2700 BCE to 2400 BCE

    Sumerians

    King Gilgamesh rules the city state of Ur.
  • Period: 2400 BCE to 2330 BCE

    Sumerians

    The Sumerian language is replaced with the Akkadian language.
  • Period: 2330 BCE to 2100 BCE

    Akkadians

    Sargon l of the Akkadians takes over most of the Sumerian city-states.
  • Period: 2100 BCE to 1900 BCE

    Sumerians

    The Sumerians rise to power once again.
  • Period: 1900 BCE to 1792 BCE

    Assyrians

    The Assyrians rise to power in Northern Mesopotamia.
  • Period: 1792 BCE to 1781 BCE

    Assyrians

    Hammurabi becomes king of Babylon. The code of Hammurabi is established and Babylon soon takes over most of Mesopotamia.
  • Period: 1781 BCE to 1750 BCE

    Old Babylonians

    King Shamshi-Adad of the Assyrians dies. The First Assyrian Empire is soon taken over by the Babylonians
  • Period: 1750 BCE to 1595 BCE

    Old Babylonians

    Hammurabi dies and the Old Babylonian empire begins to fall apart.
  • Period: 1360 BCE to 1250 BCE

    Assyrians

    The Assyrians begin to rise to power once again.
  • Period: 1250 BCE to 1225 BCE

    Assyrians

    The Assyrians begin using iron weapons and chariots.
  • Period: 1225 BCE to 1115 BCE

    Assyrians

    The Assyrians capture Babylon.
  • Period: 1115 BCE to 1077 BCE

    Assyrians

    The Second Assyrian Empire reaches its peak under the rule of King Tiglath-Piliser I.
  • Period: 1077 BCE to 744 BCE

    Assyrians

    Tiglath-Piliser dies and the Assyrian Empire becomes weaker for a time.
  • Period: 744 BCE to 721 BCE

    Assyrians

    The Assyrian Empire becomes strong once again under the rule of Tiglath-Piliser III.
  • Period: 721 BCE to 709 BCE

    Assyrians

    King Sargon II takes control of Assyria. The empire grows stronger.
  • Period: 709 BCE to 705 BCE

    Assyrians

    Sargon II takes control of the city of Babylon.
  • Period: 705 BCE to 668 BCE

    Assyrians

    Sargon II dies and Sennacherib becomes king. He moves the capital to Nineveh.
  • Period: 668 BCE to 626 BCE

    Assyrians

    Ashurbanipal becomes the last great King of Assyria. He establishes a great library in the city of Nineveh.
  • Period: 626 BCE to 616 BCE

    Assyrians

    Ashurbanipal dies and Assyria begins to crumble.
  • Period: 616 BCE to 604 BCE

    New Babylonians

    Nabopolassar takes control of Babylon back from the Assyrians and crowns himself king. The neo-Babylonian empire begins.
  • Period: 604 BCE to 550 BCE

    New Babylonians

    Nabopolassar dies and Nebuchadnezzar II becomes King of Babylon. He will rule for 43 years and bring the Babylonian Empire to its peak.