The Fall and Rise of Empires

1100-600 BC: The Era of the Small States

• 1400-1200 BC: The Major Empires are weakened
• 1200-750 BC: The Era of the Small States
• 750-330 BC: Revival of Cosmopolitan Empires

700-612 BC: Revival of the Assyrian Empire

• 732-722 BC: Assyria conquers Israel and Syria
• 671 BC: Assyria conquers Egypt

612-539 BC: Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean Empire

559-323 BC: Persia

• 559-530 BC: Cyrus the Great
• 521-485 BC: Darius
• 485-465 BC: Xerxes

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