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Ancient Mesopotamia |
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HASSUNA, SAMARRA & HALAF CULTURES / LATE NEOLITHIC |
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Life Before Civilisation
By 10,000 BC, people had abandoned cave
dwelling in favour of living in the first permanent
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The Hassuna Culture
Farming arrived in the fertile lowlands of Mesopotamia from
8000 BC onwards, transforming human society. |
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The Samarra Culture
This was the second of the early Neolithic cultures which
led to the creation of civilisation in Mesopotamia. |
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The Halaf Culture
By the mid-sixth millennium the Halaf dry-farming culture
had appeared in northern Mesopotamia and Syria. |
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UBAID PERIOD (5300-3900 BC) / CHALCOLITHIC |
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The Ubaid Period
This was the crossover point between prehistory and the
threshold of early urban civilisation in Mesopotamia. |
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URUK IV PERIOD (3900-3100 BC) / GAWRA CULTURE (4000-3500 BC) |
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JEMDET NASR /
URUK III PERIOD (3100-2900 BC) / EARLY BRONZE AGE |
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EARLY DYNASTIC I PERIOD (2900-2800 BC) / BEFORE THE FLOOD |
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The Sumerian King List
This highly important list was written on clay tablets, with
the first version appearing around 2100 BC. |
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First Writing System
The first communications revolution occurred when the
Sumerians developed a written script from pictures. |
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EARLY DYNASTIC II PERIOD (2800-2600 BC) / AFTER THE FLOOD |
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EARLY DYNASTIC IIIa PERIOD (2600-2500 BC) |
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EARLY DYNASTIC IIIb PERIOD (2500-2334 BC) /
LAGASH DYNASTY PERIOD |
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AKKAD DYNASTY PERIOD (2450-2250 BC) |
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GUTIAN PERIOD (2250-2150 BC) |
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UR III PERIOD (2150-2000 BC) |
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OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD (2000-1600 BC) / MIDDLE BRONZE AGE |
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CONTEMPORARY STATES |
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LATE BRONZE AGE (1600-1200 BC) |
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IRON AGE I (1200-1000 BC) / DARK AGE |
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IRON AGE II (1000-586 BC) |
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GREAT EMPIRES (586-1 BC) / CLASSICAL & ROMAN |
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