Prehistory and Uruk
before c. 2900 BCE
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Early Dynastic Sumer
c. 2900 to 2334 BCE
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Akkadian Empire
c. 2334 to 2154 BCE
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Ur III and Neo-Sumerian revival
c. 2112 to 2004 BCE
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Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian
c. 2004 to 1595 BCE
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Kassite Babylonia and Middle Assyria
c. 1595 to 1000 BCE
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Neo-Assyrian Empire
c. 911 to 609 BCE
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Neo-Babylonian Empire
626 to 539 BCE
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Achaemenid rule
539 to 331 BCE
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Seleucid rule
331 to c. 141 BCE
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Parthian rule
c. 141 BCE to 224 CE
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Sasanian rule
224 to c. 636 CE
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Early Islamic period (Rashidun and Umayyad)
c. 636 to 750 CE
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Abbasid Caliphate
750 to 1258
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Mongol, Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, Timurid and Turkmen rule
1258 to 1508
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Safavid and Ottoman Iraq
1508 to 1917
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British occupation and Mandate
1917 to 1932
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Hashemite Kingdom
1932 to 1958
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Republic (Qasim and the Arifs)
1958 to 1968
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Ba'ath rule
1968 to 2003
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2003 to today
2003 onward
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