REL328 Time Line Worksheet.  Noting the major Periods in which they belong (or the event with which they are associated),

place the major Rulers as listed below in Chronological Order within the chart, by geographical area (Egypt/Mesopotamia).

Then enter the names of their capitals as listed below, plus the city gods as marked. 

Date   Egypt: Period/Event,  >Ruler, @ Capital                                      Mesopotamia: Period/Event, >Ruler, @ Capital

Early Bronze                        Scorpion ?

                                     > Narmer ?    @ __________

3100        ____________,     Menes   ?                           *god: ______

                                (Dyn 1) > Aha          ? @ _________

                                                                                              *god: ______

2800(?)                                                                                                           _________, > ________, @ _____                                                     

2650        ____________,  > _________, @ ________

                                                                                            *god: ______           

2350                                                                                                             _________, > ________, @ ______                                                     

                                                                                                                                              + ________

2150(?)                                                                                                        _________, > _________, @ Lagash                                                

2100(?)                                                                                                       _________, > _________, @ ______

                                                                                                                                            + _________                 *god: _______

                                                 / Dyn. 9-10     , @ ________                     

2060        ____________, >|                                                     

                                                 \  _________, @ ________

Middle Bronze                                                                    *god: ______

2040                                                                                                                                    / ________, @ _______

2000(?)                                                                                                        ________, >|                                      

1990        ____________, > ___________, @ ___________                                 \ ________, @ _______   

                                                                                                                                               + _______

                                                                                                                    _________, > _________, @ _______

                                                                                                                                                                                        *god: ______

1750                                                                                                            _________, > _________, @ _______

                                                                                                                                                                                        *god: ________

1600       ____________, > Hyksos Rule, @ ____________         _________, > _________, @ Hattusa

                                                                                                                      (event)          (Hittite ruler)   (Hittite capital)

Late Bronze                                                                                             Kassites take over…

1550        Hyksos Expelled, >___________, @ Thebes  _________________________________________________             

                     (event; begins New Kingdom)      |                                  CHOOSE FROM:

                                                                                |    Periods                                |            Rulers                   |  Capitals

|    Akkadian                             |            Ahmose                 |  Agade/Akkad

                                                                                |    Egyptian Early Dynastic  |         *Amunemhet I          |  Ashur/Assur

                                                                                |    First Intermediate               |            Gilgamesh              |  Avaris

|    Gutean                                  |            Gudea                     |  Babylon

*Name the gods associated                                |    Isin / Larsa                           |            Gungunum            |  Herakleopolis

with the cities as marked:                                    |    Middle Kingdom                |            Hammurabi            |  Hierakonpolis

Amun                                                     |    Neo-Sumerian (Ur III)        |            Ishbi-Erra               |  Isin

Ashur                                                     |    Old Assyrian                       |            Mentuhotep II      |  Itj-Tawy

                Horus                                                     |    Old Babylonian                   |            Mursili I                 |  Larsa

Marduk                                                  |    Old Kingdom                       |            Naram-Sin              |  Memphis            

Osiris                                                      |    Raid on Babylon                 |            Narmer/Menes      |  Thebes

Ptah                                                        |    Second Intermediate          |            Rim-Sin                  |  This/Thinnes

              Sin (Nanna)                                             |    Sumerian Early Dynastic   |            Sargon                   |  Ur

What was Enlil’s city?  __________               |                                                  |            Shamshi-Adad      |  Uruk

                |                                                  |            Shulgi              Locate these cities on the map!

Be able to describe each of the rulers             |                                                  |            Snefru                                   

named in a sentence or two.                              |                                                  |            Ur-Nammu             (*=Ammenemes)