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10000 BCE: Beginnings of agriculture in the Middle East.
8000 BCE: Ovens in use in the Near East are applied to pottery production.
7700 BCE: First domesticated wheats in the Fertile Crescent.
7000 BCE: Domestication of goats.
5000 BCE: Irrigation and agriculture begin in earnest in Mesopotamia.
5000 BCE - 651 CE: Dates of the history of the ancient Near East.
853 BCE: Babylonian kings depend on Assyrian military support.
850 BCE: Medes migrate into Iran from Asia.
750 BCE: Persians migrate into Iran from Asia.
734 BCE: Babylon is captured by Chaldeans.
729 BCE: Babylon is occupied by Assyrians.
722 BCE - 705 BCE: Peak of the Assyrian empire under the reign of Sargon II.