Condensed Chronology of Mesopotamian History
Compiled by Melanie Byrd, PhD, Professor of History
Palace at Nimrod, source :
www.ancientdays.net/
Uruk Period, ca. 3700-3300 B.C.E
Jemdet Nasr Period, ca. 3300-3000 B.C.E
Early Dynastic Period, ca. 3000-2330 B.C.E.
Akkadian Empire, ca. 2334-2193 B.C.E.
Third Dynasty of Ur, ca. 2112-2004 B.C.E.
Isin-Larsa Period, ca. 2000-1800 B.C.E. (Overlaps with the first part
of the Old Babylonian Period)
Old Babylonian Period, ca. 2000-1595 B.C.E. (Reign of Hammurabi, ca. 1792-1750)
End of the Bronze Age, ca. 1200-1100 B.C.E.
Zenith of the Assyrian Empire, ca. 744-627 B.C. E.
Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean Empire, 625-539 B.C.E. (The ruler Nabodinus
reigned 556-539)
*(Note: Various books give slightly different dates for each period).
Read More About Mesopotamia
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Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion.
Yale University Press, 1976.
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