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Mesopotamia Timeline
Our students chose an event throughout Mesopotamia's history to dipict a significant event. Click on any of the descriptions below to view thair drawings ...
5000 B.C.E. - Invention of irrigation and the ox-drawn plow
3500 B.C.E. - Mud brick villages were developed
3500 B.C.E. - Sumerians settled
3500 B.C.E. - Sumerians develop pictographic writing
3500 B.C.E. - One of the first ziggurats was built
3400 B.C.E. - The cyinder seal is invented that can make continous design
3000 B.C.E. - Sumerian pictographic writing develops into cuneiform
3000 B.C.E. - The sumerians invented the first wooden wheel
1792 B.C.E. - Hammurabi takes control of Babylon
1750 B.C.E. - The Code of Hammurabi is completed
1000 - 800 B.C.E. - Mesopotamians have recipes for over 100 kinds of soup, 300 types of bread and 20 different cheeses
605 - 562 B.C.E. - Nebuchadnezzar rules; builds the hanging Gardens of Babylon
600 B.C.E. - The first use of colored glazed bricks
This program is supported in part by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
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