List of Bronze Age states


The Bronze Age marks the emergence of the first complex state societies, and by the Middle Bronze Age the first empires.
This is a list of Bronze Age polities.
By the end of the Bronze Age, complex state societies were mostly limited to the Fertile Crescent and to China, while Bronze Age tribal chiefdoms with less complex forms of administration were found throughout Bronze Age Europe and Central Asia, in the northern Indian subcontinent, and in parts of Mesoamerica and the Andes.

West Asia

NameCapitalState typeExisted
Akkadian EmpireAkkadEmpire2334 BC–2154 BC
AlashiyaEnkomi, KalavasosKingdom1450 BC–1050 BC
AmurruSumerKingdom2000 BC–1200 BC
Arme-ShupriaVanKingdom1290 BC–1190 BC
ArmiArmiKingdom city state/client2290 BC–40 BC
ArzawaApasaConfederation of principalities1700 BC–1300 BC
AssyriaAssurEmpire2025 BC–609 BC
Assuwa leagueVariousConfederation of city states1400 BC–1250 BC
BabyloniaBabylonEmpire1894 BC–1595 BC
ByblosByblosPhoenocian city state1800 BC–970 BC
CanaanVariousConfederation of city states1800 BC–1194 BC
DilmunQal'atKingdom2600 BC–675 BC
EblaEblaKingdom3500 BC–1600 BC
ElamSusaKingdom3200 BC–539 BC
EshnunaEshnunnaKingdom city state2000 BC – 8th century BC
GutiumArrapkhaKingdom2141 BC–2050 BC
HattiHattusaPrincipality city states2700 BC–1900 BC
Hayasa-AzziSamuha2 Kingdom confederation1500 BC–1190 BC
Hittite EmpireHattusaEmpire1600 BC–1178 BC
HyksosItjtawy, ThebesConfederacy1800 BC–1180 BC
Isuwanot specifiedKingdom2800 BC – 12th c BC
KassiteBabylonKingdom1595 BC–1135 BC
KaskiaZalpa, NerikTribal confederation/kingdom1430 BC–1200 BC
KizzuwatnaKummanniKingdom1600 BC–1220 BC
KussaraKussaraKingdom city states1900 BC–1650 BC
LukkaNot specifiedTribal kingdom2000 BC–1183 BC
LullubiLulubunaTribal kingdom2400 BC–650 BC
LuviaTribal kingdom2000 BC–1400 BC
MaganNot specifiedKingdom2200 BC–550 BC
MarhasiMarhašiKingdom city state2900 BC–1900 BC
MariMariKingdom city state2900 BC–1759 BC
MittaniWashukanniKingdom1600 BC–1300 BC
NamarNamarKingdom2350 BC–750 BC
NagarNagarKingdom2600 BC–2300 BC
Pala?Kingdom???–1178 BC
PhoeniciaVariousKingdom city states1500 BC–332 BC
PurushandaPurušhandaKingdom city state2000 BC–1650 BC
QatnaQatnaCity-State2000 BC–1340 BC
Sea PeoplesNot specifiedTribal confederacy1575 BC–1175 BC
SumerVariousKingdom city states4500 BC–2334 BC
TroasTroyKingdom2000 BC–700 BC
UgaritUgaritKingdom city state2500 BC–1090 BC
UrUrcity state3800 BC–800 BC
UrkeshUrkeshKingdom city state/client2250 BC–1350 BC
YamhadHalabKingdom1810 BC–1525 BC
ZalpaZalpaKingdom city state/client1830 BC–1670 BC

Europe

NameCapital/sTypeExisted
MinoaKnossosKingdom city states3100–1000 BC
MycenaeaMycenaeKingdom city states1600–1100 BC
Sea PeoplesNot specifiedTribal confederacy1500 – 1175 BC

Asia

East Asia

namecapitalstate typeexisted
QiQiDukedom1600–445 BC
ShangAnyangKingdom1600–1046 BC
XiaYangchengKingdom2070–1600 BC

South Asia

namecapitalstate typeexisted
MehrgarhMehrgarhunclear7000 –2500/2000 BC
Indus Valley civilizationHarappa ?unclear3300–1300 BC