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9th millennium B.C. 8500 BC – first domestication of the cow (taurine line from the aurochs near Çayönü Tepesi in southeastern Anatolia and Dja'de el-Mughara in northern Iraq). 8400 to 8100 BC – first settlements at Nevali Cori in Anatolia; 8200 to 7650 BC – first domestication of emmer wheat near Damascus, Syria; 8th millennium BC
6th century BC (23 C, 15 P) 5th century BC (24 C, 11 P) 4th century BC (23 C, 6 P) 3rd century BC (24 C, 11 P) 2nd century BC (25 C, 9 P) 1st century BC (27 C, 16 P) 10th century BC (12 C, 17 P) 1st millennium BC by continent (3 C) 1st millennium BC by country (25 C)
Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The history of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity.This history is pieced together from evidence retrieved from archaeological excavations and, after the introduction of writing in the late 4th millennium BC, an increasing amount of historical sources.
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The Neo-Assyrian Empire was an empire in Mesopotamia during the Iron Age. During its existence from 911-609 BC, it was the largest empire in the world up to that time, [3] doing many early techniques of imperialism which became normal in later empires. [4] It was, according to many historians, the first real empire in history. [5]
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The artifacts range in date from the late second millennium BC through the Partho-Sasanian period, but most of the objects are dated to the 9th-8th centuries BC. Dating and meaning of the known objects (bronze weapons and animal figurines, human statuettes of terra cotta and bronze, pottery animal effigy vases, and burnished black, gray, or ...
