Mesopotamia Timeline

• 5000 BCE Earliest Evidence of Man

• 4000 BCE Many farming villages

• 3500 BCE Sumerian city-states from

• 3300 BCE Sumerian writing on clay tablets

• 3250 BCE Cuneiform writing

• 3250 BCE Wheel used

• 2750 BCE Gilgamesh rules Uruk

• 2500 BCE First Sumerian Dynasty of Ur

• 2350 BCE Sargon established the Akkadian Empire

• 2000 BCE Sumerians developed symbols into a complete writing system called cuneifrom

• 1790 BCE Hammurabi conquers Babylon and reunites Mesopotamia

• 1758 BCE Hammurabi write Code of Hammurabi

• 721 BCE Assyria conquers the kingdom of Israel

• 490-489 BCE Darius I invades Greece - Persian Wars

• 480-479 BCE Invasion of Greece by Xerxes

• 479 BCE Defeat of Persian armies by the Greeks

• 334-330 BCE Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great