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