Middle Elamite period

Middle Elamite period was a state in Iran (Middle East) that lasted from c. 1500 to 1100 BCE, about 400 years. Its people spoke Isolates and ancient languages (Sumerian, Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian, Hattic, Kassite, Etruscan, Basque, Ainu).

Elam at its height. Untash-Napirisha built the ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil, and Shutruk-Nahhunte carried Hammurabi's law stele off to Susa. Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon defeated Elam around 1100 BCE.

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Facts

Dates

c. 1500 to 1100 BCE

Duration

400 years

Type

State

Region

Iran, Middle East

Language family

Isolates and ancient

Capital

Susa, Al Untash-Napirisha

Came from

• Old Elamite period c. 2700 to 1500 BCE

Became

• Neo-Elamite period c. 1100 to 539 BCE

Events in Middle East during its time

• 1274 BCE Battle of Kadesh
• 1177 BCE Late Bronze Age collapse

Neighbours in Middle East

• Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE
• Old Elamite period c. 2700 to 1500 BCE
• Phoenician city-states c. 1200 to 332 BCE
• Middle Assyrian Empire 1365 to 912 BCE
• Kassite Babylonia c. 1595 to 1155 BCE
• Mitanni c. 1550 to 1260 BCE
• Hittite Old Kingdom c. 1650 to 1400 BCE
• Dilmun c. 2800 to 544 BCE
• Troy c. 3000 to 1180 BCE
• Byblos c. 2800 to 1200 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa

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