Mesopotamian Timeline Comic Strip
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- 4000 BCE
- This looks like a great spot for a city!
- 3300 BCE
- Now I can finally send a letter!
- 1792 BCE
- The Mesopotamians establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at thecenter of their cities as temples to their gods.
- 744 BCE
- The Sumerians invent the first writing system known as cuneiform. They usepictures for words and inscribe them on clay tablets.
- 550 BCE
- Hammurabi becomes king of Babylon. He establishes the Code of Hammurabi andBabylon soon takes over much of Mesopotamia.
- 522 BCE
- The Assyrian Empire reaches its peak and is the strongest empire in the world
- Cyrus the Great rises to power and the Persian Empire begins.
- Darius I becomes King of Persia. He expands the empire and divides it up into stateseach ruled by a governor called a satrap.
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