Grade 6 Social Studies Chapter 3: The Dawn of Civilization Fertile Crescent Empires: Timeline Song

First, there’s farming 7,000 B.C.

Then city-states 5,500-3,500 B.C.

Then Akkadians, led by Sargon the Great 2,330 B.C.

Hammurabi’s Code of Laws, leader of Babylon 2,000 B.C.

Then it’s gone, destroyed by the Assyrians 1,300 B.C.

They take over, with great skill, in 721, they capture Israel 721 B.C.

Next Chaldeans, who rebuild Babylon 612 B.C.

Then Judah’s gone in 587 587 B.C.

Then comes Persia, Jews go home 539 B.C.

Persia fights wars, against the Greeks, not Rome 499-449 B.C.

Then defeated, by Alexander the Great 331 B.C.

His empire splits, 323-280 B.C.

Maccabees revolt, 167-160 B.C.

And Palestine’s invaded by Rome. 63 B.C.