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8000 BCE
Jericho is founded
The oldest know community in the West Bank between Israel and Jordan. -
4000 BCE
Bronze is formed
Craftspeople in western Asia mixed copper and tin to form bronze. Copper was harder and longer lasting than copper. -
3000 BCE
Sumer is developed
Many cities had formed in southern Mesopotamian in a region known as Sumer. -
2340 BCE
Sargon conquers Mesopotamia
Sargon, the king of Akkadians, conquered Mesopotamia and set up the worlds first empire. -
1800 BCE
Babylon is built
After Sargon's empire fell a new group of people became powerful in Mesopotamia. They built a city called Babylon. -
1792 BCE
Hammurabi becomes king
Hammurabi was the Babylonian king and conquered cities in north and south and created the Babylonian Empire. -
900 BCE
Assyrians take over Mesopotamia
Assyrians took over about 1,000 years after Hammurabi. They built large armies and took over all of Mesopotamia. -
650 BCE
Nineveh becomes the Assyrian capital
The empire stretched from the Persian Gulf in the east to Egypt's Nile River in the west. The capital Nineveh was on the Tigris River. -
650 BCE
Assyrians begin fighting each other
Assyrians cruel treatment of people led to rebellions. The Assyrians began fighting each other over who would be the next king. -
605 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar takes control of Mesopotamia
The Chaldeans wanted to build an empire. They were led by their king Nebuchadnezzar to take control of Mesopotamia. -
539 BCE
Persians take over Mesopotamia
Chaldeans began to lose their power and a group of Persians from the mountains to the northeast capture Babylon and built a new empire, Persian Empire. -
612
Chaldeans capture Nineveh
The Assyrian's were fighting each other and the Chaldeans rebelled and captured Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire crumbled.
