Zigurats

mesopotamia

By Beatriz Ceballos
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2350 BCE

    sumerial

  • low mesopotamia
    2980 BCE

    low mesopotamia

    The Sumerians created a set of city-states in Lower Mesopotamia: Uruk, Lagaš, Kiš, Uma, Ur, Eridu and Ea whose economy was based on irrigation
  • 2500 BCE

    invasion of mesopotamia

    the Semitic tribes (Arabs, Hebrews and Syrians) constantly invaded the Mesopotamian region
  • Period: 2350 BCE to 1800 BCE

    akkadian

  • 2100 BCE

    Sumerian Renaissance

    According to a commemorative tablet it was Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, who defeated and expelled the gutis rulers from the Sumerian lands
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 1350 BCE

    babylonian

  • Period: 1350 BCE to 539 BCE

    assyrian

  • 1250 BCE

    asirios

    Towards 1,250 a.C. the Assyrians, who took control of the whole country, settled in the north of Babylon
  • 600 BCE

    the Neobabylons

    Babylon re-emerged with the Chaldeans, another Semitic tribe, when it was re-founded by its king Nabopolassar, at the end of the 7th century.
  • 539 BCE

    Persian invasion

    the Persian king Cyrus, the new king of Asia, occupied Babylon and established his power throughout Mesopotamia.
  • Period: 539 BCE to 1 BCE

    persian conquest