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The oldest know community in the West Bank between Israel and Jordan.
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Craftspeople in western Asia mixed copper and tin to form bronze. Copper was harder and longer lasting than copper.
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Many cities had formed in southern Mesopotamian in a region known as Sumer.
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Sargon, the king of Akkadians, conquered Mesopotamia and set up the worlds first empire.
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After Sargon's empire fell a new group of people became powerful in Mesopotamia. They built a city called Babylon.
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Hammurabi was the Babylonian king and conquered cities in north and south and created the Babylonian Empire.
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Assyrians took over about 1,000 years after Hammurabi. They built large armies and took over all of Mesopotamia.
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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.
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Assyrians cruel treatment of people led to rebellions. The Assyrians began fighting each other over who would be the next king.
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The Chaldeans wanted to build an empire. They were led by their king Nebuchadnezzar to take control of Mesopotamia.
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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.
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The Assyrian's were fighting each other and the Chaldeans rebelled and captured Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire crumbled.
