mesopotamia

Hittite King Mursili I invaded Yamhad in Northern Syria to avenge his grandfather Hattusili I's defeat and defeat it's hands. He captured it's capital Aleppo ending it. Next he invaded Mesopotamia and marched on Babylon sacking it which ended the Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi's dynasty. But...

During the siege of Bahurasīr, a Sassanid emissary relayed a message from Shahanshah Yazdegerd III to the Arabs, proposing a new border along the Tigris River, with the lands to the west designated as Arab territory and those to the east as Sassanid. IOTL, this offer was rejected, and the Arabs...

A simple question, why exactly was Mesopotamia such a difficult region for the Roman's to keep hold of that when it actually was annexed, control only lasted two years. The Romans would reastiblish the province again under Septimius Severus, but only to the Khabur river, and since then, not even...

I've seen it laid out that a better use of the same resources than the Gallipoli campaign would have been landings at Alexandretta and Mersin and a subsequent takeover and fortification of Cilicia: complicating Ottoman resupply of Mesopotamia by cutting the Berlin-Baghdad Railway at Adana...

Being the religion of one of the earliest civilizations in the world the ancient Mesopotamia faith lasted in some form for thousands of years before finally fading into irrelevance around the 4th century BCE. Your challenge is to have Mesopotamia polytheism survive and thrive past this point and...

Hittites survive the bronze age collapse by defeating the sea peoples and subduing the kaskas. Hittites create a near monopoly on iron. They conquer Egypt, Mesopotamia, Caucasus, Levant and Grecce emerging as the strongest power in world

Some people argue that regions like Britannia, Dacia, Germania and Mesopotamia brought instability to the empire, which was relatively safe with its borders in the Rhine, Danube and Osrhoene/Western Armenia. What do you think? Were these regions really worthy of conquest? Would the empire...

I was reading some old post from @John7755 يوحنا were he discussed the recovery of the Abbasids in the post Seljuk era and how they might have succeeded in beating back Hulagu and his army the PoD is a different and far more competent Caliph al Musta'sim that take the Mongol threats...

Plausibility check : How early can Elamites Conquer and assimilate Iranian plateau ?

Exactly what says in the title. Would the romans choose to go to battle against the parthians in full force to conquer one of the most wealthy regions of the antiquity instead of just conquering a bunch of celtic tribes in Britannia?

What if the Gutian Dynasty of Sumer had never existed?

OTL, the Akkadian Empire fell 180ish years after it fell due to barbarians and poor leadership. However, its descendants of Assyria and Babylon would be the hegemons of Mesopotamia. Your goal, however, isn't to cement their rule, but to secure the Akkadian empire itself for at least five hundred...

The Akkadian Empire lasted roughly 430 years, dominating Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, the Caucuses, western Persia, and much of northern Oman through the Persian Gulf. But around 180 years in, there were tremendous droughts and barbarian invasions that nearly destroyed the regime, with the...

Horus Triumphant - an Alternate Antiquity timeline - Over the years I've had several ideas for some timelines but never really had the time to do...

Otl, despite being the homeland of early civilization as we recognize it, Mesopotamia was long dominated by foreign empires. This isn't to say Mesopotamia was without power, but much of its realms were fairly limited, mostly to what are now iraq and Syria, with bits poking into turkey or iran...

What if the ancient Dynasty of the Sealand, had taken over the old Babylonian Empire from Amorites, and expanded it to great heights, the Dynasty lasting for centuries in Mesopotamia and the Middle East? From sands of Egypt to deserts of Persia, Sealand Dynasty rules all

The Jewish Exilarchs were nominal leaders of the Jewish talmudic community (or parts of it, at least) who claimed descent from David and established themselves in the highly urbanized region of Mesopotamia under the patronage of the Persian kings. The office was a popular leadership role for...

otl, the period after the Siege of Vienna up to 1918 was bad for the ottomans- repulsed by their catholic rivals, loss of the balkans, greece, and the whole of north africa (not in that order), finally breathing it's last in 1918 for Ataturk to come in and create the modern republic. Your...

What if the Babylonian King Hammurabi (1810-1750 BCE) had never risen to prominence as a regional warlord in Mesopotamia? I can see some immediate consequences being the survival, however short or long, of the small empires of Larsa and Mari, alongside a stronger hegemony for Elam and perhaps an...

Antiochus III was basileus of the Seleucid Empire from 222 BCE until sometime around the 180’s. When he ascended to the throne, his empire was in disarray — there was unrest in the Persian and Median satrapies under the rebel leaders Molon and Alexander, Parthia and Bactria were nibbling at the...