| 7000 BC | Neolithic pottery: textiles, figurines, private houses with wall paintings, wooden vessels A-17 | ||
| 6000's | Neolithic cultures in Macedonia | ||
| 2600 | Early Bronze Age at Troy and other cities A-17 | ||
| 1900 | First Hitittie settlement A-17 | ||
| 1800 - 1700 | Anittas, King of Kushshar (Kussar) and his father Pitkhana in Cappadocia defeated Bijustis, King of Hatti and their capital Hattushash A-49 | ||
| 1600/2 | Labarnash ruled at Kushshar, queen Tawannannas, son Hattishlish I | ||
| 1600 | Kassiti ? Murshilish I captured Aleppo, ruled north Syria, raided Babylon taking down the first dynasty, moved capital to Hattushah | ||
| 1500 | Telepinush ruled after three usurpers, fixed leadership on heriditary basis | ||
| to 1450 | Obscure period, probably paid tribute to Egypt | ||
| 1450 | Hittitie Dynasty began, threatend by Mitannis and Kashka | ||
| 1380 | Shubbiliuliu, the greatest Hittitii king took Anatolia, subjected Syria,
Artadama held Aleppo and Carchemish of Syria, which later easily went to
Shubbiliuliu He reduced Mitanni to a small kingdom with help from Artadama of Mitanni, a rival of Tuishrata of Mitanni. Shubbiliuliu and his son died of the plague |
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| 1315 | Muwatallish, Hittitie king defeated Ramses II on the Orontes 1298, both sides claimed victory A-50 | ||
| 1271 | Hattushilish III made treaty with the Kassites and with Ramses
II. Syrian property owned by Hittites recognized as such Treaties were made to help stave off growing Assyria? |
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| 1200's | Cimmerians invade, driven from their homeland in Russia by Scythians | ||
| 1230ish | Hittitie kingdom came to an end as a result of the Aegean people invading, leaving the Homeric wars | ||
| 1000 | Kingdom of Phrygians created as they came from Thrace, little else is known | ||
| 1000 | Greeks had been migrating to Anatolia, settling in three areas: Aeolians from Thessaly at Gryneium, Cyme, Mytilene on Lesbos, Magnesia on the Hermus Ionians from Attica and Euboea at Mycale, Phocaea, Colophon, Ephesus. Miletus, and islands of Chios and Samos Dorians from Peloponnese at Cnidus, Halicarnassus, islands of Cos, Rhodes and Crete |
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| 715 | Phrygian king Midas, or Mita of Mushku ruled | ||
| 696 | Cimmarians devasted the Phrygian dynasty but they survived until 547 | ||
| 670 | Gyges (a Lydian) of the Phrygians defeated Cimmerians with Assyria's help | ||
| 547 | Cyrus ended the Phrygian dynasty completely, taking Croeus prisoner | ||
| 547 | Anatolia becomes part of the Persian empire | ||
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| 301 | The current king Antigonus, died in battle the Ipsus, Anatolia divided between the Ptolomies and the Seleucids | ||
| Minor kingdoms in Anatolia at this time were: Bithyna: occupied by Ziboetes and then given to Rome Cappadocia: reduced to a province Pontus: ruled by Mithradates, arch enemy of the Romans Galatia occupied by 20,000 Celts who invaded Greece with Brennus in 279 and ravaged Anatolia, then confined to this area and called Gauls. Peragum: independent who defeated Galatia, controlled western Anatolia nd gave his kingdom to Rome |
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