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One of the oldest known Mesopotamian cities, Nineveh may have been settled as early as 6,000 B.C. Sumer civilization arose in the lower Tigris-Euphrates valley around 5,000 B.C.
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The earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq.
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Evidence indicates the wheel was created to serve as potter's wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia.
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The earliest archaeological evidence of horses’ transition from prey to pets, unearthed several years ago at a site in Kazakhstan associated with the prehistoric Botai culture, dates back to 3500 B.C.
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Was first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city Uruk.
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Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk in Mesopotamia best known from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the great Sumerian/Babylonian poetic work which pre-dates Homer’s writing by 1500 years and, therefore, stands as the oldest piece of epic world literature.
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One of four periods in which the history of Assyria is divided.
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Was an ancient Akkadian-spoken state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia.
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One of the greatest strengths of the Assyrian army was its chariots. A chariot is a wheeled vehicle pulled by two to four horses.The Assyrians were the first to use iron to make their weapons. Iron was stronger than the bronze used by their enemies and gave them a distinct advantage.
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Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated back to about 1754 BC
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The Kingdom of Israel occupied that part of the land on the Mediterranean Sea known as the Levant which corresponds roughly to the State of Israel of modern times.
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Was a thalassocratic ancient Semitic speaking Mediterranean civilization that originated in the Levant in the west of the Fertile Crescent.
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The first Phoenician Alphabet was discovered by the French archaeologist Pierre MontetOffsite in 1923 in Jbeil, Lebanon, is the oldest known evidence of the Phoenician alphabet.
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Land in southern Babylonia frequently mentioned in the Old Testament.
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Was an Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, and became the largest empire of the world up till that time.
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In the Assyrian empire in the 9th century BCE and incorporated tunnels several kilometres in length.
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The Northern Kingdom of Israel was the first of the two kingdoms to fall, when it was conquered by the Assyrian monarchs. The captivities began in approximately 722 B.C
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The oldest surviving royal library in the world is that of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria. British Museum archaeologists discovered more than 30,000 cuneiform tablets and fragments at his capital Nineveh.
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It was the largest empire the world had ever seen, surpassing the size of their Assyrian predecessors. Today the country of Iran.
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King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon turned against the Israelites, finally capturing the city in July 587 BC after a long seige lasting a year and a half.
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Alex began his war against the Persians in 334 BC. At the time the Macedonian leader was twenty-two years old. At his death eleven years later, Alexander ruled the largest empire of the ancient world.