Century BCE
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Dhi Qar
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Muthanna
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Al-Qādisiyyah
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Wasit
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Babil
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Baghdad
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Diyala
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Kirkuk
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35th
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Uruk period (c. 4000 – c. 3100 BCE)
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Eridu
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Uruk I
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Larak
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Sippar
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Kish I
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34th
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33rd
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Kish I
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Hamazi
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32nd
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31st
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Jemdet Nasr period (c. 3100 – c. 2900 BCE)
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Eridu
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Uruk I
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Larak
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Sippar
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Kish I
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Hamazi
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30th
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Uruk I
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Shuruppak
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29th
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Early Dynastic I period (c. 2900 – c. 2700 BCE)
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Eridu
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Uruk I
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Shuruppak
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Larak
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Sippar
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Kish I
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Hamazi
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Bad-tibira
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28th
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Uruk I
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27th
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Early Dynastic II period (c. 2700 – c. 2600 BCE)
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Uruk I
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Uruk I
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Shuruppak
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Larak
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Sippar
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Kish I
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Hamazi
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Predynastic Ur
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Kalam
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26th
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Early Dynastic IIIa period (c. 2600 – c. 2450 BCE)
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Kalam
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Uruk I
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Shuruppak
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Predynastic Adab
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Sippar
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Kish I
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Hamazi
|
Ur I
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Kish II
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Predynastic Lagash
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Uruk I
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25th
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Early Dynastic IIIb period (c. 2450 – c. 2350 BCE)
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Lagash I
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Shuruppak
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Predynastic Adab
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Sippar
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Kish II
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Hamazi
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Umma I
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Uruk I
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Akshak
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Kish III
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Ur I
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Uruk II
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24th
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Kish IV
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Proto-Imperial period (c. 2350 – c. 2334 BCE)
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Ur I
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Uruk II
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Shuruppak
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Akshak
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Sippar
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Kish IV
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Hamazi
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Uruk III
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Adab
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Akkadian period (c. 2334 – c. 2154 BCE)
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Ur I
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Uruk IV
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Shuruppak
|
Adab
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Sippar
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Kish IV
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Sargonic Akkad
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Lulubum
|
Ur II
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23rd
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Lagash II
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22nd
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Gutian period (c. 2154 – c. 2119 BCE)
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Lagash II
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Uruk IV
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Kisurra
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Adab
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Sippar
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Sargonic Akkad
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Gutian Akkad
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Sargonic Akkad
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Gutian Akkad
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Uruk V
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Ur III
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Ur III period (c. 2119 – c. 2004 BCE)
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Ur III
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21st
|
Ur III
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Isin I
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Der
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Sippar
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Kish V
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Eshnunna
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Hamazi
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Larsa
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Uruk VI
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Assur
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20th
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Isin-Larsa period (c. 2025 – c. 1763 BCE)
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Larsa
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Uruk VI
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Isin I
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Der
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Kutha
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Shaduppum
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Eshnunna
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Assur
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19th
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18th
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Old Babylonian period (c. 1894 – c. 1155 BCE)
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Babylon I
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