Mesopotamia and Sumer timeline: what happened when?: timeline worksheet for Grade 7, page 1 preview

Timeline worksheet · History, Civics & Social Studies

Mesopotamia and Sumer timeline: what happened when? · Grade 7

Match 8 events about mesopotamia and Sumer to their dates on a timeline using an event bank. Practices chronology and reading a scaled timeline.

Grade 7 · ages 12 to 13
Hard
15 to 20 minutes
1 page
Free

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The events

Directions: Each date on the timeline has a box. Write the letter of the event that happened then.

Events
Cyrus the Great of Persia captures
Babylon.
Babylonians and Medes destroy Nineveh, bringing down the Assyrian Empire.
Sargon of Akkad unites Mesopotamian city-states into an empire.
Hammurabi of Babylon has his code of laws carved in stone.
Nebuchadnezzar II builds the blue-glazed
Ishtar Gate in Babylon.
Ur-Nammu of Ur builds a great ziggurat and issues one of the oldest known law codes.
Scribes in Sumer begin writing in cuneiform on clay tablets.
Assyrian king Ashurbanipal gathers a great library of clay tablets at Nineveh.
oldest newest
about 3200 BCE about 2334 BCE about 2100 BCE about 1754 BCE about 650 BCE
612 BCE about 575 BCE
539 BCE

What your child practices

Your child practices chronology and reading a scaled timeline. The skill is “Change, continuity and causation”: describe how and why things changed over time and compare perspectives.

Grades and ages: Grade 7, ages 12 to 13
Time: About 15 to 20 minutes
Subject: History, Civics & Social Studies
Level: Hard for Grade 7
Answer key: Yes, for grown-ups who sign in
Printing: 1 page, US Letter or A4, low-ink option
Updated: October 15, 2026

How to use it

Try the first question together so the format is clear. Then let your child work through the rest, showing their thinking on the page. It is one of the harder sheets for Grade 7, best once the basics of the skill are secure.

An answer key comes with it as a separate page that grown-ups download after signing in.

Tip for grown-ups: Find the oldest and newest events first, then fill in the middle.

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