4000-1000 BC Sumerian Timeline
- 4000 Sumerians arrive in Mesopotamia
- 3750 Eridu is earliest known walled Sumerian city [Mesopotamia, by Jane Shuter]
- 3000-2300 Early Dynastic Period [James A. Armstrong "Mesopotamia" The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Brian M. Fagan, ed., Oxford University Press 1996.]
- 2800 Kish, the dominant city, challenged by Lagash;
Semites dominate Kish
- 2700 Sumerian King, Gilgamesh, rules the city of Uruk [EAWC]
- 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 [EAWC]
- 2230 Akkadian dynasty ends
- 2150 Nomadic Gutians overruns Akkadians and Sumer, but Sumer revives
- 2100 - Writing of the Sumerian Kings List [EAWC]
- 2130 Sumer regains independence from Akkadian rule
- 2000 Hittites migrate to Asia Minor
- 1950 Elamites from Zagros attack Sumer and overrun the Syrian Amorites;
Amorites go to Babylon to create colonies with Ashur as center of a kingdom that will be called Assyria
- c. 2000-1600 - First Dynasty of Babylon [Mesopotamia, by Jane Shuter]
- 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.
Rough chronology provided in 2000 by [URL = www.dubsar.com/nippur/ ] Dubsar, the Ancient Sumerian Scribe.
