4000-1000 B.C. Sumerian Timeline
- 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.
