Skip to content
Conflict Middle East

Aramean Migrations & Wars

1100 BCE – 900 BCE · 200 years

Aramean semi-nomadic tribes swept across the Fertile Crescent in the wake of the Bronze Age Collapse, founding powerful kingdoms like Aram-Damascus and Bit Adini. Their pressure nearly destroyed Assyria and reshaped the political map of the Near East.

See it on the timeline

Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Aramean tribal confederations
  • Assyria & Babylonia

Key moments

Defining events in the Aramean Migrations & Wars.

  1. c. 1050 BC Siege of Babylonian cities
  2. c. 1000 BC Foundation of Aram-Damascus

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Middle East

Temple of Solomon

957 BCE – 586 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Andronovo

2299 BCE – 999 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Conflict · Middle East

Wars of David & Solomon

1010 BCE – 930 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Egypt

Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Dead Sea

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1100 BCE and 900 BCE.

1010 BCE Wars of David & Solomon 957 BCE Temple of Solomon 1100 BCE Cádiz 1100 BCE Pulemelei Mound 1046 BCE Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Ephesus Landmark · Europe 1000 BCE – still standing Chavin Polity · Americas 1000 BCE – 100 BCE Amber Road Trade route · Europe 1000 BCE – 400 CE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence Conflict · Europe 911 BCE – 824 BCE King David Figure · Israel / Judah 1040 BCE – 970 BCE Leptis Magna Landmark · Africa 1000 BCE – still standing
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons