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3000 BCE
Map in the year 3000BC
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3000 BCE
City-states appear
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3000 BCE
Pictograms
Approximately in 3000 a. C., appeared the writing, at that time used only to carry the administrative accounts of the community. The first writings that have been found are engraved on clay (very common in that area) with drawings formed by lines (pictograms). -
3000 BCE
Video about Mesopotamia
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Period: 3000 BCE to 2350 BCE
Sumerian
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2650 BCE
Gilgames
This was one of the governors of Mesopotamia in the year 2650 BC -
2450 BCE
Estela dels voltors
This was one of the most famous works / sculptures in the Sumerian period, this work was founded in 2450 BC -
2350 BCE
The capital Accad was founded
In the year 2350 a new capital called Accad was founded -
2350 BCE
Map in the year 2350 BC
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Period: 2350 BCE to 1800 BCE
Akkadian
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2279 BCE
Naram-Sim
He was one of the governors of Mesopotamia in the Akkadian period -
2120 BCE
Gudea de Lagash,
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2000 BCE
The people of the Elamites invaded Mesopotamia
Towards the year 2000 a. C. invaded Mesopotamia (approximately the present Iraq) the town of elamitas, but later another nomadic town entered, the Amorreos, coming from Syria that conquered by the south to the sumerios and by the north to the asirios. -
1813 BCE
Imperio antiguo asirio o Primer Imperio asirio[editar]
Between the years 1813 and 1780 a. C., Assyria reached the category of empire. It was the first Assyrian Empire, by the hand of King Shamshiadad I until in the year 1760 a. C., Hammurabi of Babylon defeated and conquered the Assyrians who became part of the Empire of Babylon. -
1800 BCE
Map in the year 1800 BC
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Period: 1800 BCE to 1350 BCE
Babylonian
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1792 BCE
Hammurabi
Hammurabi was king during the Paleo-Babylonian empire of the city-state of Babylon and inherited the power of his father, Sîn-Muballit, around 1792 BC. -
1750 BCE
Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest sets of laws that have been found and one of the best preserved examples of this type of document created in ancient Mesopotamia. It was written in 1750 a. C. by the king of Babylon Hammurabi, where unifies the existing codes in the cities of the Babylonian empire. It is currently preserved in the Louvre Museum in Paris. -
1350 BCE
Map in the year 1350 BC
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Period: 1350 BCE to 539 BCE
Assyrian
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713 BCE
Dur Sharrukin
Dur Sharrukin (literally, "Sargon's Fortress") was an ordered walled city built in 713 BC. C. by Sargon II, as capital of Assyria. It happened to be the capital of the kingdom in 717 a. C. -
628 BCE
King Khosrow
The internal political situation quickly deteriorated after the execution of King Khosrow II in 628 AD. -
604 BCE
Nabucodonosor II
Nebuchadnezzar II the Great (604 - 562 BC), a sovereign of Babylon, the successor of Nabopolassar, is probably the best-known member of the Chaldean Dynasty of Babylon. -
559 BCE
Ciro II
In 559 a. C. assumes the throne of Persia Cyrus II, of the Achaemenid dynasty. Until that time the Persians were nominally subjects -
539 BCE
Map in the year 539 BC
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Period: 539 BCE to 1 BCE
Persian Conquest
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528 BCE
Tomb of Cyrus
The tomb dates from the year 528 a.C., being the structure with the oldest seismic isolation that is known. -
1 BCE
Map in the year 1 BC
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