Dates
The name of the age that ranges from 120,000-4000 BC
Stone Age
The Sumerian Civilization
The First Great Civilization in Mesopotamia.
The Sumerians
Assurnasipal
The Pharoah who built the Pyramid at Saqqara (the first pyramid in history)
Djoser
The name of the period of that ranges from 120,000-12,000
The Paleolithic Age
The man who created the first Empire
Sargon
The Sumerians were taken over by this group of people. This was considered the first empire.
The Akkadians
The unpopular Neo-Babylonian King who changed the state god from Marduk to the moon-god Sin. He was so disliked that the people let the Persians come in and take them over.
Nabonidus
The second female Pharoah that was credited for expanding the trade route and building many buildings including many stone obelisks.
Hatshepsut
The name of the age of with the period that ranges from 12,000 BC through 8000 BC
Mesolithic Period
The Babylonian King that developed the first extensive and organized code of laws for his kingdom.
Hammurabi
This group of people came in and sacked Babylon and the Babylonian Empire. They left it devasted allowing for the Kassites to come and rule for 500 years.
The Hittites
The son of the above Neo-Babylonian King. He was the one left in charge to rule in his father's place but did so unsuccessfully.
Belshazzar
The Pharoah who changed the state god from Amun-Re to Aton and banned the worship of all other gods, thus making the Egyptian religion a monotheistic religion.
Akhenaton
The First Complete Code of Laws in History (Hammurabi Code of Laws)
1700 BC to 2000 BC
The two groups of people that fought at the Battle of Kadesh.
The Hittites and the Egyptians
This group of people were a nomadic people from Levant who were assimilated into the Mesopotamian Culture (c. 1900 BC)
The Amorites
The Neo-Babylonian King who is credited with having built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and for having deported thousands of Jews from Judah to Babylon.
Nebuchadnezzar II
The Pharaoh who was a relatively minor king, having died young, but whose burial artifacts are the only ones to have survived tomb-robbers.
Tutankhamun (King Tut)
The name of the age that begins in 1200 BC through 500 BC
Iron Age
This mysterious semitic people migrated into lower Egypt from the Levant.
The Hyksos
This group of people rose in military power and took over all of Mesopotamia from the Kassites. They were known for being very harsh and oppressive.
The Assyrians
The Chaldean governor of Babylonia who rose up, allied himself with the Medes in the East and destroyed Assyria. He was the first king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Nabopolassar
The Pharaoh who expanded the Egyptian Empire into Palestine and demonstrated that he was perhaps the greatest military strategists of all time.
Thutmose III