The document provides a timeline of important political, cultural, and linguistic periods in Mesopotamian history from 3100 BCE to 539 BCE. It lists the major ruling dynasties and leaders in Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria. Key events included the invention of writing in Sumer, the Gutian invasion that ended the Sumerian civilization, and the later Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE that marked the end of Mesopotamian rule.
The document provides a timeline of important political, cultural, and linguistic periods in Mesopotamian history from 3100 BCE to 539 BCE. It lists the major ruling dynasties and leaders in Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria. Key events included the invention of writing in Sumer, the Gutian invasion that ended the Sumerian civilization, and the later Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE that marked the end of Mesopotamian rule.
The document provides a timeline of important political, cultural, and linguistic periods in Mesopotamian history from 3100 BCE to 539 BCE. It lists the major ruling dynasties and leaders in Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria. Key events included the invention of writing in Sumer, the Gutian invasion that ended the Sumerian civilization, and the later Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE that marked the end of Mesopotamian rule.
Political/Cultural Periods Linguistic/Textual Periods
Uruk IVa 3100 Pictographic Tablets WRITING INVENTED Jemdet Nasr 3000
(Great Flood) 2900
Early Dyn I 2800 Archaic Sumerian
Uruk I Ki I 2700 Archaic Ur Tablets Gilgame Enmebaragesi Lugalbanda Akka Early Dyn II 2600 uruppak (Fara) Ebla Abu Salabikh Laga I 2500 Pre-Sargonic Ur-Nane, Eanatum Tablets Laga Enmetena, Urukagina Early Dyn III 2400 Old Sumerian Sargon, Narm-Sn Sargonic 2300 Enheduanna Empire Old Akkadian 2200 Laga II Gudea Utuhegal Gutian Period 2100 Neo-Sumerian Early Old Babylonian Ur III Ur-Nammu, ulgi, Amar-Suen, (Enunna ) -Sn, Ibbi-Sn 2000 Amorite Dynasties of 1900 Old Assyrian SUMERIAN DEAD Yasmah-Addu, Zimri-Lim Mari, Isin, 1800 Hammurapi Larsa, and Old Babylonian Babylon 1700