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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Basic timeline of Mesopotamia

This post is a basic timeline of Mesopotamia. There are 16 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Pre-Pottery Neolithic A culture (10,000-8,700 BC)
• Pre-Pottery Neolithic B culture (8,700-6,800 BC)
• Ubaid period (6,500-3,800 BC)
• Halaf culture (6,100-5,100 BC)
• Hassuna culture (6,000 BC)
• Samarra culture (5,500-4,800 BC)
• Uruk period (4,000-3,100 BC)
• Jemdet Nasr period (3,100-2,900 BC)
• Early Dynastic period (2,900-2,350 BC)
• Akkadian period (2,350-2,170 BC)
• Ur III period (2,112-2004 BC)
• Isin-Larsa period (2025-1763 BC)
• Middle Assyrian period (1720-1076 BC)
• Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-612 BC)
• Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BC)
• Achaemenid Assyria (539-330 BC)