93 Chronology

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Chronology of Mesopotamia
N.B.: all dates are B.C. and approximate and subject to revision.

Ubaid Period	5000-4000
	4500	Tell Hamoukar (urban center, N. Mesopotamia)
Proto-Literate Period	4000-2900
Early Uruk Period	4000-3500
	4000	trade contacts with N. Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia
	3750	founding of Uruk
Late Uruk Period	3500-3200	colonization of N. Mesopotamia
	3300	invention of writing (Uruk)
Jemdet Nasr Period	3200-2900	initial trade contacts with Egypt
Early Dynastic Period	2900-2334
Sumerian civilization
Akkadian Empire	2334-2154
Sargonic period
Guti Interregnum	2154-2112
conquest of Akkad	2154
liberation of Sumer	2120
Third Dynasty of Ur	2112-2004
Sumerian empire
fall of Ur (Elamites)	2004
Isin-Larsa Period	2025-1887
Dynasty of Larsa (Amorite)	2025-1863
Dynasty of Isin (Sumero-Akkadian)	2017-1887
Old Assyria	2025-1365
Amorites found Assyria	2025
Old Babylonian conquest	1753
Assyrian independence	1715
Mitanni conquest	1500-1365
Old Babylonian Period	1994-1595
Babylon Dynasty 1: Amorite
Hammurabi	1792-1750
conquest of Assyria	1753
Hittites sack Babylon	1595
Dynasty of the Sea-Land	1700-1570
Middle Babylonia	1570-689
Dynasty 3: Kassite	1570-1225
Assyrian domination	1225-1186
Babylonian independence	1186-1157
Elamite conquest	1157-1156
Dynasties 4-9	1156-689
Middle Assyria	1365-883
absorption of Mitanni	1274
conquest of Babylon	1225-1186
Neo-Assyria	883-609
conquest of Babylon	689-625
conquest of Egypt	671-663
fall of Nineveh (Chaldeans)	609
Neo-Babylonia	625-539
Dynasty 10: Chaldean
conquest of Assyria	609-539
fall of Babylon (Medes)	539
Persian Empire	547-331
Achaemenid Dynasty
conquest of Troy	547
conquest of Ionia	546-478
conquest of Babylon	539
1st conquest of Egypt	525-404
conquest of Macedonia	492
sack of Babylon (Persians)	482
1st Persian War	499-490
2nd Persian War	480-479
liberation of Ionia	478
campaign of Xenophon	401
2nd conquest of Egypt	343-332
Macedonian invasion	334
liberation of Egypt	332
fall of Babylon (Macedonians)	331
Macedonian Empire	334-305
reign of Alexander	334-323
era of the Diadochi	323-305
Seleucid Kingdom	305-63
fall of Babylon (Parthians)	126
Roman conquest	63