With a pod in the year of 1400 BCE, your challenge is to create an Elamite hegemony over the following areas and the following parameters:
-Controls the entire region of Elam. This area does not have to be the center of the empire, but must be a section of it and its cultural base. With that said, I doubt the Elamites would assimilate to Semitic culture of their enemies, the Elamites are quite sophisticated.
-Controls Sumer and Chaldea. So, it must rule over Uruk, Ur, Eridu, etc.. The ancient cities of the land of Sumer.
-Babylonia and Akkad. So, it must own Babylon and other areas in the Semite section of the Iraqi river valley.
- Must rule or have the northern Iranian plateau as vassals. Thus, Elam must force back, assimilate or subdue the migrating Medes when they arrive. I believe that Elamite influence extended somewhat north, but not to the extent of direct rule. Make this rule direct.
-Elam must control the trade in the Gulf, that is the cities of Maqan, Dilmun, etc... Essentially, the East Arab coast and that of later Omani coast.
^ All of this can be essentially vassals or subjects. However, Elam must own its own highlands and the land of southern Iraq.
Optional:
Own or subjugate:
-Assyria
-Urartu
-Inner Syria
-Israel
-Elamite invasion at least of Egypt
-Elamite rule over inner Anatolia
Other criteria:
-Have the Elamite language replace Semitic and Sumerian languages in the southern river valleys of Iraq. Further, make Elamite a trade language common in the Indian Ocean where it can survive far into the future as a mutually agreed upon trade tongue.
-Create as many pidgins of Elamite + another language as possible. Thus, Elamite brings a similar change to that of Akkadian and Sumerian.
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Just an interesting idea I had. Elam as an ancient civilization does not receive the respect it deserves nor is it looked into as much as its contemporaries of Egypt, Akkad, Sumer, Hatti, Assyria, etc...
-Controls the entire region of Elam. This area does not have to be the center of the empire, but must be a section of it and its cultural base. With that said, I doubt the Elamites would assimilate to Semitic culture of their enemies, the Elamites are quite sophisticated.
-Controls Sumer and Chaldea. So, it must rule over Uruk, Ur, Eridu, etc.. The ancient cities of the land of Sumer.
-Babylonia and Akkad. So, it must own Babylon and other areas in the Semite section of the Iraqi river valley.
- Must rule or have the northern Iranian plateau as vassals. Thus, Elam must force back, assimilate or subdue the migrating Medes when they arrive. I believe that Elamite influence extended somewhat north, but not to the extent of direct rule. Make this rule direct.
-Elam must control the trade in the Gulf, that is the cities of Maqan, Dilmun, etc... Essentially, the East Arab coast and that of later Omani coast.
^ All of this can be essentially vassals or subjects. However, Elam must own its own highlands and the land of southern Iraq.
Optional:
Own or subjugate:
-Assyria
-Urartu
-Inner Syria
-Israel
-Elamite invasion at least of Egypt
-Elamite rule over inner Anatolia
Other criteria:
-Have the Elamite language replace Semitic and Sumerian languages in the southern river valleys of Iraq. Further, make Elamite a trade language common in the Indian Ocean where it can survive far into the future as a mutually agreed upon trade tongue.
-Create as many pidgins of Elamite + another language as possible. Thus, Elamite brings a similar change to that of Akkadian and Sumerian.
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Just an interesting idea I had. Elam as an ancient civilization does not receive the respect it deserves nor is it looked into as much as its contemporaries of Egypt, Akkad, Sumer, Hatti, Assyria, etc...