Mesopotamia | Egypt | Israel / Palestine | |
3500-3100 BCE | Uruk | ||
3100-2900 BCE | Jemdet-Nasr | 3100-2686 Early Dynastic | 3150-2200 Early Bronze |
2900-2700 BCE | Early Dynastic I | ||
2700-2500 BCE | Early Dynastic II | ||
2500-2300 BCE | Early Dynastic III | 2686-2200 Old Kingdom | |
2300-2150 BCE | Sardonic/Akkadian | ||
2150-2100 BCE | Guti | 2200-2040 1st Intermediate | |
2100-2000 BCE | Ur III | 2040-1786 Middle Kingdom | |
2000-1600 BCE 2000-1700 BCE |
Old Babylonian Old Assyrian |
2000-1200 Middle Bronze II | |
1600-1500 BCE | Dark Age | 1786-1558 2nd Intermediate |
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1600-1050 BCE | Kassite/Middle Babylonian | 1558-1085 New Kingdom | 1100 “Conquest” |
1400-1000 BCE | Middle Assyrian | ||
1000-626 BCE | Neo-Assyrian | 1050-925 United Kingdom | |
625-539 BCE | Neo-Babylonian | 586 Exile | |
539-330 BCE | Persian/Achaemenid | 539 Return | |
330-65 BCE | Alexander and Seleucid successors | ||
250 BCE – 230 CE | Parthians (Arsacid) | ||
230-650 CE | Sassanian | ||
650 CE – present | Arab / Islamic |