Who were the rulers of Mesopotamia?

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According to the generally accepted definition of Mesoptamia as the land between the Euphrates and Tigris, the history can be charted approximately as follows:

~3000 BCE - Loose conglomeration of Sumerian city-states, each with its own king. The stories about Gilgamesh take place in this time frame.

~2300 - Sargon of Akkad starts the Akkadian empire with Akkad as its capital city (whereabouts still unknown).

2200-1800 - Ruled by kings in Larsa, Isin, and then Ur. Various city-states vied for power.

~1800 BCE - Old Babylonian empire starts under Hammurabi.

~1400 BCE - Middle Babylonian/Assyrian empires

~1000-612 BCE - Neo-Assyrian Empire (Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal, etc.)

612-520 BCE - Neo-Babylonian Empire (Nebuchanezzar II, Nabonidis, etc.)

520-331 BCE - Persian Empire (Cyrus the Great, Darius, etc)

331- Macedonian conquest under Alexander the Great

That's it for Ancient Mesopotamia. After that it stops being its own entity under really modern times, and now it's known as Iran.

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