Editing Mesopotamia (section)

===Periodization===
[[File:Jarmo to Ubaid 7000-4500.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|After early starts in [[Jarmo]] (red dot, {{circa|7500 BC}}), the civilization of Mesopotamia in the 7th–5th millennium BC was centered around the [[Hassuna culture]] in the north, the [[Halaf culture]] in the northwest, the [[Samarra culture]] in central Mesopotamia and the [[Ubaid culture]] in the southeast, which later expanded to encompass the whole region.]]
[[File:Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia c. 1450 BC.png|thumb|A map of 15th century BC, showing the core territory of [[Assyria]] with its two major cities [[Assur]] and [[Nineveh]] wedged between [[Babylonia]] downstream. The states of [[Mitanni]] and [[Hittite Empire|Hatti]] are upstream.]]
* Pre- and protohistory
** [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic A]] (10,000–8700 BC)
** [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B]] (8700–6800 BC)
** [[Jarmo]] (7500–5000 BC)
** [[Hassuna culture|Hassuna]] (~6000 BC)
** [[Samarra culture|Samarra]] (~5700–4900 BC)
** [[Halaf culture]]s (~6000–5300 BC)
** [[Ubaid period]] (~6500–4000 BC)
** [[Uruk period]] (~4000–3100 BC)
** [[Jemdet Nasr period]] (~3100–2900 BC)<ref>{{citation |last=Pollock |first=Susan |title=Ancient Mesopotamia. The Eden that never was |page=2 |year=1999 |series=Case Studies in Early Societies |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-57568-3}}.</ref>
* Early Bronze Age
** [[Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)|Early Dynastic period]] (~2900–2350 BC)
** [[Akkadian Empire]] (~2350–2100 BC)
** [[Third Dynasty of Ur]] (2112–2004 BC)
* Middle Bronze Age
** [[Isin-Larsa period]] (19th to 18th century BC)
** [[First Babylonian dynasty]] (18th to 17th century BC)
** [[Minoan eruption]] ({{circa|1620 BC}})
* Late Bronze Age
** [[Old Assyrian Empire|Old Assyrian period]] (16th to 11th century BC)
** [[Middle Assyrian Empire|Middle Assyrian period]] ({{circa|1365–1076 BC}})
** [[Kassites]] in [[Babylon]], ({{circa|1595–1155 BC}})
** [[Late Bronze Age collapse]] (12th to 11th century BC)
* [[Iron Age]]
** [[Syro-Hittite states]] (11th to 7th century BC)
** [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] (911 BC – 612 BC)
** [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] (626 BC – 539 BC)
* [[Classical antiquity]]
** [[Fall of Babylon]] (539 BC)
** [[Persian Babylonia|Achaemenid Babylonia]], [[Persian Assyria|Achaemenid Assyria]] (539 BC – 331 BC)
** [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucid]] Mesopotamia (4th to 3rd century BC)
** [[Parthian Empire|Parthian Babylonia]] (141 BC – 226 AD)
** [[Osroene]] (2nd century BC to 3rd century AD)
** [[Adiabene]] (1st to 2nd century AD)
** [[Hatra]] (1st to 2nd century AD)
** [[Mesopotamia (Roman province)|Roman Mesopotamia]] (2nd to 7th century AD), [[Assyria (Roman province)|Roman Assyria]] (2nd century AD)
* [[Late Antiquity]]
** [[Asōristān]] (3rd to 7th century AD)
** [[Muslim conquest of Persia|Muslim conquest]] (mid-7th century AD)