NEAR EASTERN CHRONOLOGY

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Dates	Period	Egypt Correlation
9000-7000 B.C.	Proto-Neolithic/Aceramic Neolithic Pd.	Predynastic Period
7000-4000	Neolithic Period
3500-3000	Protoliterate Period Uruk (Warka)
3000-2350 2500-2340	Early Dynastic Period First Dynasty of Ur	Dyn. I-V Dyn. V
2340-2160 2340-2284 2260-2223	Akkadian Period King Sargon King Naram-Sin	Dyn. VI, First Intermediate Period
2160-2000 2113-2004	Neo-Sumerian Period Third Dynasty of Ur King Gudea of Lagash	First Intermediate Period, Dyn. XI
2017-1763	Isin-Larsa Period	Dyn. XII-XIII
1894-1595 1792-1750	Old Babylonian Period King Hammurabi	Dyn. XIII, Second Intermediate Period
1600-1155	Kassite Period in Mesopotamia	Dyn. XVIII-XX
c. 1430-c. 1200	Hittite Empire in Anatolia	Dyn. XVIII-XIX
900-612 884-859 722-705 704-681 669-627	Assyrian Empire Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud Sargon II at Khorsabad Sennacherib Ashurbanipal II at Nineveh	Third Intermediate Period, Saite Period
625-550 605-562	Neo-Babylonian Period Nebuchadnezzar	Saite Period
550-330 c. 550 520-486 486-465 331	Persian Empire King Cyrus the Great King Darius King Xerxes Persia conquered by Alexander the Great	Saite Period, Late Period