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4000-1000 BC Sumerian |
- 4000
Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia.
- 3800
Sumerians supplant Ubaidians in Mesopotamia and start cities.
- 2800
Kish, the dominant city, challenged by Lagash;
Semites dominate Kish.
- 2700
Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, rules the city of Uruk.
- 2340
Sargon (a Sumerian in the city of Kish) overthrows the Sumerian king of Nippur. Sargon's new kingdom is called Akkad;
Sargon extends his kingdom to Syria.
- 2320
Sargon conquers Sumer.
- 2230
Akkadian dynasty ends.
- 2150
Nomadic Gutians overruns Akkadians and Sumer, but Sumer revives.
- 2130
Sumer regains independence from Akkadian rule.
- 2000
Hittites migrate to Asia Minor.
- 1950
Elamites from Zagros attack Sumer. They overrun the Syrian Amorites.
Amorites go to Babylon to create colonies with Ashur as center of a kingdom that will be called Assyria.
- 1753
Ammorite King Hammurabi conquers all of Sumer. Hammurabi rules to 1750. His empire lasts until 1600, when the Kassites conquer most of Mesopotamia.
- 1800
Kassites defeat the Babylonians.
- 1593
Hittites sack Babylon and end Hammurabi's dynasty.
- 1365
Ashur the Great, King of Assyria marries his daughter to a Babylonian.
- 1300
The Assyrians control all of Mesopotamia.
- 1200
Hittites' capital Hattusas is wiped out (plague); Phrygians move in.
- 1050
Cosmopolitan area, with tolerance for diverse ethnicity.
- 1000
Assyrian Empire.
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