Fertilecrescent

Fertile Crescent

  • Agriculture begins
    4200 BCE

    Agriculture begins

    Farming begins near the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
  • Period: 4200 BCE to 600 BCE

    Fertile Crescent

    Timeline of ancient civilizations in or near the Fertile Crescent
  • Sargon
    2300 BCE

    Sargon

    Sargon leads Akkadians to conquer Sumer
  • Abraham
    2000 BCE

    Abraham

    Abraham moves from Ur to the north of Mesopotamia
  • Babylon
    1792 BCE

    Babylon

    Babylon creates empire and brings in laws.
  • Phoenicia
    1550 BCE

    Phoenicia

    Phoenicia is the major trader on the Mediterranean Sea
  • Hittites
    1300 BCE

    Hittites

    Hittites take over Babylon
  • Assyria
    1200 BCE

    Assyria

    Assyria takes over Fertile Crescent
  • Israel comes out of Egypt
    1200 BCE

    Israel comes out of Egypt

    Moses leads the Hebrews to the promised land of Canaan
  • Lydia
    1200 BCE

    Lydia

    Lydia invents coinage
  • Israel
    1100 BCE

    Israel

    Saul becomes king of Israel
  • Chaldeans/Neo Babylonians
    612 BCE

    Chaldeans/Neo Babylonians

    Nebuchadnezzar takes over the Fertile Crescent and Jerusalem