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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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