Mesopotamia By mtorrey24 Period: 3000 BCE to 2530 BCE Sumer Period: 2350 BCE to 2150 BCE Akkadians Period: 2000 BCE to 1595 BCE Old Babylonian Empire Period: 2000 BCE to 1190 BCE Hittite Empire Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE King Hammurabi Period: 1595 BCE to 1160 BCE Kassites and other groups 1500 BCE Hittites Take over northern Mesopotamia 1500 BCE First iron Weapons 1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh 1190 BCE Tribes attacked from the north, Capital Burned, Hittite empire falls Period: 1100 BCE to 824 BCE Phonecian Empire Period: 1100 BCE to 612 BCE Assyrian Empire Period: 705 BCE to 681 BCE King Sennecharib Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE King Ashurbanipal Period: 612 BCE to 539 BCE Neo-Babylonian Empire Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE Nebuchadnezzar Period: 550 BCE to 530 BCE Cyrus the Great 539 BCE Cyrus conquered Babylon in a “bloodless victory” Period: 539 BCE to 331 BCE Persian Empire 530 BCE Cyrus Dies in battle