2334 – 2279 bce sargon of akkad creates the first empire (range of dates)
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2334 – 2279 BCE
Sargon of Akkad creates the first empire (range of
dates)
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3000 BCE
12 Great Sumerian city-states existed by this year
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1792 – 1750 BCE
Hammurabi of Babylon ruled during these years (range of
dates)
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1813 – 1781 BCE
Shamshi-Adad of Assyria ruled during these years (range of
dates)
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2600 BCE
Ziggurat at Ur is constructed
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605 – 562 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar ruled Babylon during these years
(range of dates)
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8500 BCE
Groups of hunters-gatherers settled along the Tigris and
Euphratres rivers and started farming
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550 BCE
Cyrus the Great comes to power in Persia
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587 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar puts down the Jewish rebellions and burns the
city of Jerusalem
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600 BCE
Hanging Gardens of Babylon are constructed
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3500 BCE
Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia invent the wheel and the sailboat to help them
transport goods
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2500 BCE
Writers simplify pictographs into wedge-shaped cuneiform