Foraging Peoples

Settled Agriculture

Primary Urbanization

Early Mesopotamian Civilizations

Expansion and Contraction of Mesopotamian Empires

• Era of Smaller Civilizations
• Revival of Mesopotamian Empires

Cosmopolitan Empires

• Persian Empire
• Hellenistic Kingdoms
• Parthian Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• Sassanid Persia

Islamic Empires

Modern Era

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Primary Urbanization in Mesopotamia

7000 to 3500 BC

Primary Urbanization: 7000-3500 BC c. 7000 B.C.: Peoples in the Ancient Near East develop agricultureSettled Agriculture Chronology 6,000 BC: Jericho c. 3500 B.C.: Sumerians settle in Mesopotamia

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