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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Revival of the Mesopotamian Empires

750-550 BC

Beginning ca. 750 BC: Revival of the Mesopotamian Empires. 745-612 BC: Period of Assyrian dominance 745: Tiglath-pileser III becomes king of Assyria. 732-722 BC: Assyria conquers Israel and Syria.Ancient Israel Chronology 710 BC: Sargon II conquers Babylon. 671 BC: Assyria conquers Egypt. 663 BC: Ashurbainipal conquers Egypt. 625-585: Period of Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) dominance. 625 BC: Beginnings of Chaldean kingdom in Babylon. 612 BC: Assyrian capital of Nineveh is destroyed by the Chaldeans or Neo-Babylonians. 587: Jerusalem is taken by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.Ancient Israel Chronology

Resources Primary Sources Bible: II Kings 15 Bible: II Kings 23 Secondary Sources

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