Mesopotamia + Greece | Dates

3800 bce

Uruk becomes first city

3100 bce

Egypt united for the first time

2300 bce

Sargon creates first Mesopotamian empire

2000 bce

The Enuma Elish likely written down

1900 bce

Gilgamesh likely written down

1750 bce

Hammurabi's code written

1600 bce

Hittites begin to conquer

1258 bce

peace treaty between Hittites and Rameses || of Egypt

1200 bce

The Bronze Age Collapse

701 bce

Sennacherib's third campaign

612 bce

Assyria collapses

587 bce

Babylon captures Jerusalemn and the beginning of the Babylonian captivity

550 bce

Pentateuch or Old Testament are edited, written down by now

550 bce

Cyrus The great begins his conquests

2000 BCE

cyrus begins to travel around the mediterranean

1650 bce

myceneans establish kingdoms in attica

1450 bce

myceneans attack minoans

1300-1100 bce

Minoan and mycenean civilizations destroyed in a series of wars

800-700 bce

Homer composes illiad and and odyssey

750-650 bce

Hesiod composes works and days

800-500 bce

polis develops

621 bce

draco publishes first law of code in athenian polis

594 bce

solon allowed non nobles into the old aristocratic assembly

508 bce

Cleisthenes reforms athenian democracy to allow for sortition

431-404 bce

Peloponesian war between sparta and athens

399 bce

socrates killed at athens for impiety and corrupting the youth