Mesopotamia
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Mesopotamia includes the
territory under control of the modern states of: Iraq, Iran, Syria
and
Turkey.
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8000BC About
this time the inhabitants of Mesopotamia (centered about modern
Iraq) began using distinctively shaped clay tokens- spheres, disks,
cones, cylinders, triangles, among others- to keep track of
foodstuffs, livestock, and land.
(I&I, Penzias, p.42)(V.D.-H.K.p.10)
6,200BCE The development of irrigation in
Mesopotamia at this time seems to coincide with a cool dry period.
(Econ, 12/20/03, p.114)
4000BC The oldest artifacts of the Mesopotamian
city of Ur dated to about this time.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.9)
3,450 The first cities appeared
along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates just north of what is
now the Persian Gulf. The cities made up the Uruk culture named
after the principal city of Uruk, which corresponds to the Biblical
Erech. The culture invented writing, the lunar calendar, used metal
and built monumental architecture. The cities remained independent
for almost a thousand years.
(eawc, p.1)
c2750BC Queen Paubi lived in the city of Ur in
Mesopotamia.
(WSJ, 3/15/00, p.A24)
2700BC The Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, ruled the
city of Uruk which had grown to a population of over 50,000.
Gilgamesh was the subject of many epics, including the Sumerian
“Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Nether World” and the Babylonian “Epic
of Gilgamesh.”
(eawc, p.1)
2500BC 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.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.8)
2130BC By this time Sumer regained its
independence from Akkadian rule but did not revert to independent
city-states. Sumer was ruled from Ur.
(eawc, p.2)
2068 Shulgi, king of Ur,
accepted gold from the king of Magan (Oman).
(Arch, 9/00, p.47)
2058BC Dungi was the king of the Mesopotamian city
of Ur.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.8)
2005BC Bur-Sin ruled as the king of Ur.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.8)
1700BC A Larsa king ruled Ur about this time.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.8)
1400BC This was the Kassite period of the
Mesopotamian city of Ur.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.8)
1174 Nureddin, the ruler of
Syria died. Saladin, the vizier of Egypt, married Nureddin’s widow
and assumed control of both state. The Ayyubids under Saladin spent
the next decade launching conquests throughout the region and by
1183, the territories under their control included Egypt, Syria,
northern Mesopotamia, Hejaz, Yemen, and the North African coast up
to the borders of modern-day Tunisia.
(ON, 6/07,
p.5)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty)
650BC 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.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.7,8)
1922 Nov 2, English
archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley began excavating the ancient
Mesopotamian city of Ur, located between Baghdad and the Persian
Gulf.
(ON, 8/20/11, p.7)
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