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Moro

Jun 16 2007, 11:42 PM

QUOTE(M.A.D @ Jun 16 2007, 06:23 PM) [snapback]1728354[/snapback]

sumerians who else.

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. 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.

apollyon

Jun 17 2007, 12:15 AM

QUOTE(M.A.D @ Jun 16 2007, 03:02 PM) [snapback]1727770[/snapback]

in there myth when do you think that the ancient one's lived if you were able to put it in a time line ,how far back would you have to go?

Myths are usually stories told and retold until their real origin is forgotten and they are written down in whatever format they are told at that time

Cinderellea started off with a fur slipper in Russia during the 16th century and ended up with a glass one by the 17th century when she made the move to france

stories that are transmitted over a cultural barrier are usually retold with the places and names change to reflect their own culture

so youre asking an impossible question
ancient myths generally date from a time before the invention of writing
In Sumer that was 3500bce
but most of the texts tell you themselves about which time period they are set
the Enuma Elish starts with

QUOTE

When in the height heaven was not named,
And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu who begat them,
And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;
Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,

so
dawn of time really

Moro

Jun 17 2007, 12:24 AM

QUOTE(apollyon @ Jun 16 2007, 08:15 PM) [snapback]1728469[/snapback]

Myths are usually stories told and retold until their real origin is forgotten and they are written down in whatever format they are told at that time

Cinderellea started off with a fur slipper in Russia during the 16th century and ended up with a glass one by the 17th century when she made the move to france

stories that are transmitted over a cultural barrier are usually retold with the places and names change to reflect their own culture

so youre asking an impossible question
ancient myths generally date from a time before the invention of writing
In Sumer that was 3500bce
but most of the texts tell you themselves about which time period they are set
the Enuma Elish starts with
so
dawn of time really

I will have to actually agree with apollyon on this one.