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Timechart of Early Mesopotamian History
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| Date (BC) | Area | City Event |
| 3200 | Near East | Farming, Clay bricks, irrigation canals, pottery and metallurgy |
| 3100-2300 | Southern Mesopotamia | The Ubaid culture flourishes |
| 3000 | Southern Mesopotamia | The Uruk period. Named after Uruk: an early city. First cities are created. |
| 3000 | Mesopotamia | Writing invented |
| 2750 | Mesopotamia | A Semitic people: the Akkadians begin to settle |
| 2600 | Mesopotamia | Wheeled transport introduced |
| 2600 | Ur | Ur is a leading center of civilization Sargon I becomes King-founds Akkadian dynasty |
| 2400 | Agade | Sargon I usurps the kingdom of Kish and builds a new city called Agade- Akkadian dynasty founded Early ziggurat |
| 2371 | Sumer & Akkad | Sargon I forms an empire in Sumer and Akkad |
| 2255-2218 | Agade | Naram-sin, grandson of Sargon I, becomes King and continues the empire |
| 2230 | Agade | Akkadian dynasty ends |
| 2200 | Northern Babylonia | The savage Gutians occupy northern Babylonia |
| 2100 | Lagash | The city of Lagash flourished during this time particularly under the King Gudea. |
| 2100 | Ur | Third dynasty of Ur forms extensive empire in Babylonia. Revival of the Sumerians as a political power |
| 2100 | Ur | Early ziggurat built |
| 2000 | Southern Mesopotamia | Ur and her empire collapses under the pressure of another group of people moving into Mesopotamia: the Amorites |
| 2000 | Mesopotamia | Amorites move into Mesopotamia |
| 2006-1894 | Babylonia | Isin-Larsa period: when Isin and Larsa were the dominant cities |
| 1792-60 | Babylon | Hammurapi rules |
| 1763 | Larsa | Larsa is overthrown by the Kassites |
| 1757 | Mari | Royal palace destroyed by the Babylonians |
| 1415-1155 | Southern Mesopotamia | Kassite invaders rule Babylon and most of southern Mesopotamia |
| 1000 | Assyria | Assyria becomes more important and begins to form an empire |
| 612 | Assyria | Assyria is defeated by the Medes and Babylonians |
| 605-562 | Babylon | Nebuchadnezzar II rules |
| 539 | Babylon | The Achaemenid (Persian) empire captures Babylon |