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Fall of the Assyrian Empire

626 BCE – 605 BCE · 21 years

Combined Babylonian and Median forces destroyed the Assyrian heartland. The Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC ended the greatest empire of the ancient Near East. Nebuchadnezzar sealed Babylon's dominance at Carchemish.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Neo-Babylonian Empire & Median Empire
  • Neo-Assyrian Empire & Egypt

Key moments

Defining events in the Fall of the Assyrian Empire.

  1. 612 BC Fall of Nineveh
  2. 609 BC Battle of Harran
  3. 605 BC Battle of Carchemish

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Nineveh

6000 BCE – 612 BCE

Polity · Europe

Assyria

2024 BCE – 608 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Greek city-states

Attested 1500 BCE – 300 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 626 BCE and 605 BCE.

612 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests Conflict · Middle East 612 BCE – 562 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE
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