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4000 BC |
The oldest artifacts of the Mesopotamian city of Ur dated to about this time. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Sumer 
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3000 BC |
Banking developed in Mesopotamia about this time. Links: Money, Mesopotamia, Banking
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2500 BC |
A queen named Shubad died about this time in the city of Ur in Mesopotamia. She was buried with a staggering amount of personal property later uncovered by English archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Archeology, Sumer
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2500 BC |
The making of glass began about this time in Mesopotamia. Links: Technology, Mesopotamia, Glass
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2334 BC 2279 BC |
Sargon I (2371BC-2315BC) founded and ruled the city-state of Akkad, after he left the city of Kish where he was an important official. He was the first ruler to maintain a standing army. His empire lasted less than 200 years. Links: Akkad, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC
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2320 BC |
Sargon conquered the independent city-states of Sumer and instituted a central government. Links: Akkad, Mesopotamia, Sumer
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2315 BC 2306 BC |
Rimush, son of Sargon, ruled Akkad. He was assassinated. Links: Akkad, Mesopotamia
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2306 BC 2291 BC |
Manishtusu, another son of Sargon, took power over Akkad. He died in a palace revolt. Links: Akkad, Mesopotamia
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2291 BC 2254 BC |
Naram-Sin ruled Akkad. He defeated a rebel coalition in Sumer and re-established Akkadian power. He re-conquered Syria, Lebanon, and the Taurus mountains, destroying Aleppo and Mari in the process. During his reign the Gutians sacked the city of Agade and eventually destroyed all of Sumer (southern Iraq). During his reign Naram-Sin campaigned against the region of Magan (Oman). Links: , Syria, Lebanon, Akkad, Mesopotamia, Sumer
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2254 BC 2230 BC |
Shar-Kali-Sharri, son of Naram-Sin, ruled Akkad. He fought to preserve the realm but it disintegrated under rebellion and invasion. Links: Akkad, Mesopotamia
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2230 BC 2118 BC |
Gutians, a tribe from the Zagros region of Iran, gained power in Mesopotamia and Gutian kings dominated the area. Links: Iran, Akkad, Mesopotamia
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2058 BC |
Dungi was the king of the Mesopotamian city of Ur. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Sumer
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2005 BC |
Bur-Sin ruled as the king of Ur. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Sumer
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1700 BC |
A Larsa king ruled Ur about this time. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Sumer
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1400 BC |
This was the Kassite period of the Mesopotamian city of Ur. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Sumer
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650 BC |
Nabonidas, the last ruler of Ur, made extensive renovations to the ziggurat there. His daughter, princess Bel-Shalti-Nannar, maintained a museum of local antiquities. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, HistoryBC, Sumer
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117 Aug 11 |
The Roman army of Syria hailed its legate, Hadrian, as emperor, which made the senate's formal acceptance an almost meaningless event. One of his first acts was to withdraw Rome’s army from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Links: Romans, Syria, Mesopotamia
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400 500 |
The 63-volume, 2,711-page compendium of Jewish law was compiled in Mesopotamia during this time. In 1923 the custom, known as “Daf Yomi,” Hebrew for “daily page," began, when Polish Rabbi Meir Shapiro conceived of the idea of reading the Talmud with the aim of uniting Jews globally in a daily regimen of Talmud study. It takes seven years and five months to finish at a rate of a single page per day. Links: Israel, Jews, Mesopotamia
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1336 1405 |
Timur (aka Timur Lang or Timur Lenk or Tamerlane because of a lame leg) was a Tartar conqueror of a vast empire from southern Russia to Mongolia and southward to India, Persia, and Mesopotamia. After his death the empire fell apart. Prince Timur is a national hero of Uzbekistan. Links: Uzbekistan, Russia, India, Persia, Mesopotamia
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1922 Nov 2 |
English archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley began excavating the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, located between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Links: Iraq, Britain, Mesopotamia, Archeology, Sumer
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1922 |
A kind of draught board in an elongated 'H' shape, together with its pieces and dice, were found during archaeological excavations at the royal cemetery in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, known now as Tal al-Muqayyar, in southern Iraq. It took more than five decades until experts managed to match up and translate a set of rules carved into a piece of clay with the board game. It became known as the Royal Game of Ur. Links: Iraq, Mesopotamia, Games, Sumer
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1960 Feb 20 |
English archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley (b.1880), best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia, died. He was knighted by King George V in 1935. Links: Britain, Mesopotamia, Archeology, Sumer
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2018 Nov 25 |
Two San Diego teenagers and a Mexican youth were found shot dead at an apartment complex in Tijuana. Christopher Alexis Gomez (17), Juan Suarez-Ojeda (18) and Mexican youth Angel Said Robles (17) were headed to a barbecue on Nov. 23 in Ensenada, south of Tijuana, and were supposed to return that night. The three teens were reportedly tortured before they were shot. Links: USA, California, Murder, Mesopotamia, Teens Amuck
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