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

2. First, there’s farming
7,000 B.C.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Next Chaldeans, who rebuild Babylon
612 B.C.

9. Then Judah’s gone in 587
587 B.C.

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

11. Persia fights wars, against the Greeks, not Rome
B.C.

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

13. His empire splits,
B.C.

14. Maccabees revolt,
B.C.

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