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Mesopotamia /
Kings
The Mesopotamian kings that stand out as particularly important the development of history and civilizations, seem to overshadow all other individuals. This being a time where the ruler could control history, a period with textual evidence of varying quality and quantity, it must be taken into account that much may be legendary, that many claims of importance may be theft from other rulers and periods.
This being a time when religion was intrinsic in the total world view, a king, and his queen, had their legitimacy from being descendants of the gods. The kings where, however, not gods like they could be in other cultures, like the Egyptian.
Enneatum. Ca. 2600, king of Lagash.
Sargon. Ca. 2334-2279, king of Akkad.
Hammurabi. 1792-1750, king of Babylonia.
Ashurnasirpal 1. Ca. 1050-1032 or 1031, king of Assyria.
Ashurnasirpal 2. 884 or 883-859, king of Assyria.
Tiglath-Pileser 3. 745-727, king of Assyria.
Ashurbanipal. 669-627, king of Assyria.
Nebuchadnezzar 2. ca. 635-561, king of Babylonia.
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