Mesopotamian Timeline in a single picture
-6000 - -600
Ancient Mesopotamia begins in the 6th millennium BC and ends with the rise of Achaemenid Persians.
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic:
- Jarmo (7000 bc)
- Pottery Neolithic:
- Hassunna (6000 bc), Samarra (5700 bc–4900 bc) and Halaf (6000 bc–5300bc) "cultures"
- Chalcolithic or Copper Age:
- Ubaid Period (5900 BC–4400 BC)
- Uruk Period (4400 BC–3200 BC)
- Jemdet Nasr period (3100 BC–2900 BC)
- Early Bronze Age
- Early Dynastic Sumerian city-states (2900 BC–2350 BC)
- Akkadian Empire (2350 BC–2193 BC).
- Third Dynasty of Ur ("Sumerian Renaissance" or "Neo-Sumerian Period") (2119 BC–2004 BC)
- Middle Bronze Age
- Early Assyrian Kingdom(20th to 18th century BC)
- First Bavylonian Dynasty (18th to 17th c. BC)
- Late Bronze Age
- Middle Assyrian Period(16th to 12th c. BC)
- Bronze Age Period(12th to 11th c. BC)
- Iron Age
- Classical Antiquity
