2,334 BCE - 2,279 BCE. Sargon of Akkad (the Great) reigns over Mesopotamia and thus creates the world's first empire. c. 2,300 BCE. Wide spread production and use of soap. c. 2,000 BCE. Babylon controls Fertile Crescent. 2,000 BCE. Domesticated horses introduced in Mesopotamia. 1,900 BCE. read more
By 2000 BCE, Babylon controlled the Fertile Crescent and the region saw advances in law (Hammurabi’s famous code), literature (The Epic of Gilgamesh, among other works), religion (the development of the Babylonian pantheon of the gods), science (astronomical measurements and technological developments), and mathematics. read more
Kingdoms and Empires of the Fertile Crescent: Sumer to Persia 3000-300 BCE 178 slides. Topics include the origin of governmental institutions, the foundations of Western law, the expansion of Sumer, Babylonia, the Chaldeans, Hitties, Persians, and Egyptians. read more
The Fertile Crescent (also known as the "cradle of civilization") is a crescent-shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations like the Sumer and Ancient Egypt flourished due to inundations from the surrounding Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris rivers. read more