The prehistory and history of Mesopotamia is divided by archaeologists and historians into periods.
Sumer
- 3500 - 3000 Uruk Period
- 3000 - 2350 Early Dynastic
- 2350 - 2100 Agade Empire
- 2100 - 2000 Third Dynasty of Ur (or Ur III)
Babylonia
- 2000 - 1600 Old Babylonian
- 1600 - 1500 Dark Age
- 1500 - 1150 Kassites
- 1150 - 729 Various Dynasties
- 729 - 625 Neo-Assyrian
- 625 - 539 Neo-Babylonian
- 539 - 331 Achaemenid Persian
Assyria
- 2000 - 1600 Old Assyrian
- 1600 - 1500 Dark Age
- 1500 - 1350 Mitannian Empire
- 1350 - 1000 Middle Assyrian
- 1000 - 612 Neo-Assyrian
- 612 - 539 Neo-Babylonian
- 539 - 331 Achaemenid Persian
