Mesoptamia

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  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Sumer

    First known civilization. In modern day Iraq
  • Period: 2016 BCE to 2016 BCE

    Royal Road

    built by Darius
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1595 BCE

    Old Babylonian Empire

    Creates 1st written lawcode
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 2016 BCE

    Phoenicians

    Powerful traders in wealthy cities/ colonies along
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 612 BCE

    Assyrians

    had a standing army of 100,000- 200,000 men
  • Period: 705 BCE to 681 BCE

    Sennacherib

    King of Assyria
  • Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE

    King Ashurbanild

    Collects over 20,000 clay tablets
  • Period: 612 BCE to 206 BCE

    The Assyrian Empire Crumbles

    Civil War weakens them
  • Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar

    The Chalden King who restores Babylon as Capital
  • Period: 550 BCE to 530 BCE

    Cyrus the Great

    Conqueres neighboring lands and creates the persian empire
  • Period: 539 BCE to 331 BCE

    The Persians

    Begin east of Mesopotamia
  • Period: 530 BCE to 522 BCE

    Cambyses III

    Conqueres egypt
  • Period: 522 BCE to 486 BCE

    Darius I

    Seizes control of the Persian Empire with help of the 10,000 Immortals
  • Period: 486 BCE to 465 BCE

    Xerxes

    Son of Darius I
  • Period: 465 BCE to 2016 BCE

    Greco-Persian Wars

    Xerxes is defeated by the Greeks
  • Period: 200 BCE to 1190 BCE

    Hittittes

    Take over northern Mesopatimia
  • Period: 195 to 2016 BCE

    NEO Babyloian Empire

    Conquered the Assyrians and is later taken over by the Persians