3500 BCE – 500 BCE
In this unit, a sequence of maps offers a panoramic overview of the Ancient Middle East, from the advent of the earliest civilization in world history to the rise of the Persian Empire.
To go to the first map, please click HERE
Whereas the free atlas covers the period in just five maps, this Premium unit has twenty. This means that much that is left out in our free atlas can be included here, for example:
- the rise and fall of the first empire in world history;
- the kingdom of Babylon at its heigh under Hammurabi, the great code giver;
- the empires of New Kingdom Egypt and the Hittites at their height, just before the widespread collapse at the end of the Bronze Age;
- the rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire, and its disastrous impact on the two Israelite kingdoms; and
- the Babylonian Empire of King Nebuchadnezzar, the destroyer of Jerusalem.
If you want to understand what was going on in the Ancient Middle East, this is the place for you!