Transcript Sargon of Akkad creates the first empire (range of dates)

Sargon of Akkad creates the
first empire (range of dates)
2334 – 2279 BCE
12 Great Sumerian city-states
existed by this year
3000 BCE
Hammurabi of Babylon ruled
during these years (range of dates)
1792 – 1750 BCE
Shamshi-Adad of Assyria ruled
during these years (range of dates)
1813 – 1781 BCE
Ziggurat at Ur is constructed
2600 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar ruled Babylon
during these years (range of dates)
605 – 562 BCE
Groups of hunters-gatherers settled
along the Tigris and Euphratres rivers
and started farming
8500 BCE
Cyrus the Great comes to power in
Persia
550 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar puts down the Jewish
rebellions and burns the city of
Jerusalem
587 BCE
Hanging Gardens of Babylon are
constructed
600 BCE
Sumerians in southern Mesopotamia
invent the wheel and the sailboat to
help them transport goods
3500 BCE
Writers simplify pictographs into
wedge-shaped cuneiform
2500 BCE