Chart 2.1 Political Regimes of the Ancient Near East,Political 3000-63 Regimes PoliticalB.C.E. of the Regimes Ancient ofNear the East, Ancient 300 Near East, 3000 – 63 B.C.E.
B.C.E.
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Median Kingdom Persian Empire
IRAN Sumerian Revival Sumerian Revival Elamites Lagash, Ur, Larsa, Isin Lagash, Ur, Larsa, Isin (Cyrus, Darius I, Xerxes I)
Sumerian City-States Guti Old Babylonian-Amorite Kassite Kingdom (e.g., Lagash, Erech) Highlanders Dynasties Neo-
LOWER (Hammurabi) Babylonian/ Chaldean Empire Seleucid Kingdom (Nebuchad- (Antiochus the Akkadian nezzar, Great, Antiochus IV Empire Nabonidus) Epiphanes (Sargon I, MIDDLE Naram-Sin)
MESOPOTAMIA Parthian Kingdom of Mari Kingdom of Mari Kingdom of Kingdom (Zimri-Lim) Mitanni (Tiglath-Pileser I, Shalmaneser III,Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal) UPPER Assyrian Kingdom (Ashur–Uballit I)
Color blocks represent the areas and times a regime ruled.
Vertical connections represent GREECE the conquest of one regime by another.
Hittite Kingdom/Empire (Augustus) (Supiluliumas I, Hattusilis III) Persian Empire ANATOLIA (Cyrus, Darius I, Kingdom of Xerxes I) Maccabean- Roman Empire Damascus Hasmonean State United Kingdom of Israel Israel
Kingdom Sea Peoples Kingdom Kingdom of Alalakh Judah
SYRIA–PALESTINE of Ebla of Ugarit (Philistines) Amarna Age (Alexander the Great) (Alexander Macedonian/Hellenistic Empire Proto-Dynastic Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Late Age Old Kingdom/Pyramid Age Period I Middle Kingdom Period II New Kingdom Dynasties Libyan Dynasty Ptolemaic Kingdom Dynasties I–II Dynasties III–VI Dynasties VII–XI Dynasties VII–XI Dynasty XII Dynasties XIII–XVII Dynasties XVIII–XX (Thutmosis III, XXI–XXXI (Shishak) Saite Dynasty (Ptolemy Philadelphus II) (Menes) (Khufu, Khaf-Re) (Amen-em-het III) (Hyksos kings) Akhenaton, Seti, Rameses II, Merneptah) Theban Dynasty Nubian EGYPT (Psalmtik I, Neco) Dynasty
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CHART 2.1 POLITICAL REGIMES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST, 3000–63 B.C.E.
Gottwald Final Pages.indd 36 10/1/08 2:37:24 PM Chart 2.1 Political Regimes of the Ancient Near East,Political 3000-63 Regimes PoliticalB.C.E. of the Regimes Ancient ofNear the East, Ancient 300 Near East, 3000 – 63 B.C.E.
B.C.E.
3000 2800 2600 2400 2200 2000 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0
Median Kingdom Persian Empire
IRAN Sumerian Revival Sumerian Revival Elamites Lagash, Ur, Larsa, Isin Lagash, Ur, Larsa, Isin (Cyrus, Darius I, Xerxes I)
Sumerian City-States Guti Old Babylonian-Amorite Kassite Kingdom (e.g., Lagash, Erech) Highlanders Dynasties Neo-
LOWER (Hammurabi) Babylonian/ Chaldean Empire Seleucid Kingdom (Nebuchad- (Antiochus the Akkadian nezzar, Great, Antiochus IV Empire Nabonidus) Epiphanes (Sargon I, MIDDLE Naram-Sin)
MESOPOTAMIA Parthian Kingdom of Mari Kingdom of Mari Kingdom of Kingdom (Zimri-Lim) Mitanni (Tiglath-Pileser I, Shalmaneser III,Tiglath-Pileser III, Shalmaneser V, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal) UPPER Assyrian Kingdom (Ashur–Uballit I)
Color blocks represent the areas and times a regime ruled.
Vertical connections represent GREECE the conquest of one regime by another.
Hittite Kingdom/Empire (Augustus) (Supiluliumas I, Hattusilis III) Persian Empire ANATOLIA (Cyrus, Darius I, Kingdom of Xerxes I) Maccabean- Roman Empire Damascus Hasmonean State United Kingdom of Israel Israel
Kingdom Sea Peoples Kingdom Kingdom of Alalakh Judah
SYRIA–PALESTINE of Ebla of Ugarit (Philistines) Amarna Age (Alexander the Great) (Alexander Macedonian/Hellenistic Empire Proto-Dynastic Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Late Age Old Kingdom/Pyramid Age Period I Middle Kingdom Period II New Kingdom Dynasties Libyan Dynasty Ptolemaic Kingdom Dynasties I–II Dynasties III–VI Dynasties VII–XI Dynasties VII–XI Dynasty XII Dynasties XIII–XVII Dynasties XVIII–XX (Thutmosis III, XXI–XXXI (Shishak) Saite Dynasty (Ptolemy Philadelphus II) (Menes) (Khufu, Khaf-Re) (Amen-em-het III) (Hyksos kings) Akhenaton, Seti, Rameses II, Merneptah) Theban Dynasty Nubian EGYPT (Psalmtik I, Neco) Dynasty
3000 2800 2600 2400 2200 2000 2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0
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