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Social Studies 8: Chronology Related to Mesopotamia B.C.E. (all c.) 5000 Neolithic settlement in villages begins 4000 City states form in Sumer 3000 Cuneiform is created 2600 Gilgamesh rules 2500 Queen Pu-abi is buried at Ur 2340-2284 Sargon of Akkad conquers Sumer to form the first empire in history 2100 List of Sumerian kings is first written 2000 Abraham and his family leave Ur for Canaan (and eventually Egypt c.1650-1300) 1792-1750 Hammurabi forms the First Babylonian Empire and writes Hammurabi’s Code 1200 “Epic of Gilgamesh” is written down “12 Tribes” arrive in Canaan, including the large “tribe of Judah” 1020 Monarchy in Israel: King Saul drives the Philistines out of Palestine 970 King David unites tribes; Jerusalem becomes capital 962 King Solomon builds temple: Ark of the Covenant, 10 Commandments 911-612 Assyrians rule Mesopotamia 893-859 Ashurnasirpal reigns 722 Israel falls to the Assyrians under Sargon II (“10 Lost Tribes” in exile) 704-681 Sennacherib reigns 690 Assyrians attack Jerusalem; deport 200,000 612-539 New (or Second) Babylonian Empire of the Chaldeans 605-562 Nebuchadnezzar reigns 586 Jerusalem falls to the Chaldeans: “The Great Captivity” 550-530 Reign of Cyrus the Great of Persia 539 Persians invade Mesopotamia; allow return of Jews to Jerusalem 528-521 Cambyses rules all of Mesopotamia and Egypt 521-485 Darius I: greatest extent of the Persian Empire 334-323 Alexander the Great’s Empire 27-476(C.E.) Roman Empire
