4000-1000 BC Sumerian Timeline

4000-1000 BC Sumerian Timeline



Timeline for Mesopotamia


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4000-1000 BC 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 and 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.