Timeline (Assyria Alone)

TIMELINE (Assyria Alone)

Events

 * 12,000-11,000 years ago: The Ice Age/Pleistocene ends, but many megafauna such as mammoths, wooly rhinos, cave lions, Irish elk, ground sloths, and glyptodons survive the mass extinction. Horses in North America die out. Homo sapiens becomes the only hominid species left on the planet.
 * 11,500 years ago: Earliest known signs of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. The Neolithic era begins. Animal husbandry is founded.
 * 5300 BC: earliest known writing occurs. Civilization occurs within Mesopotamia, but is limited to the Middle East. The rest of the known world remains primitive and savage.
 * 4967 BC: Asakhar I, warrior-cheiftain of the Asak tribe, rises to power and becomes the first king of the Empire. Shinshar (Northern Iraq in OTL) is conquered.
 * 4964 BC: Asakhar I conquers the Levant and southern Iran. The tribes of the Nile River form numerous communities.
 * 4951 BC: Asakhar I launches a campaign to conquer the Nile tribes.
 * 4950 BC: The Nile lands of Egypt are conquered. Asakhar I founds the capital city of Asakharath.
 * 4949 BC: Nubia, the land south of Egypt, is conquered. The Hebari tribes (Hebrews of the OTL) are enslaved. Asakhar I dies at the age of 64. His eldest son, Hesroth I (age 20) takes the throne. The Fertile Crescent is renamed Assyria after his mother, Queen Assyria I.
 * 4946 BC: The Atarai, a confederation of mammoth-hunting tribes within the Caucasus Mountains, invades the empire. Hesroth I fends off the barbarians. Southern Anatolia is conquered. The city of Hesrokhar in northern Assyria is founded.
 * 4934 BC: The Caucasus region is conquered. The Atari are enslaved. Western Anatolia is annexed to the Empire.
 * 4933 BC: Chariot warfare is introduced. Bronze weaponry is produced on an industrial scale. Hesroth I declares himself and his parents as gods.
 * 4922 BC: The city of Jerhorok (Jericho in the OTL) becomes a fortified city. The Temple of Asakharath is built. Sea-faring tribes from Greece raid the Empire's shores.
 * 4919: Hesroth I sends an invading armada into Greece, but the attempt to conquer it fails. The king is later assassinated by Hebari slaves. His younger brother, Kraska I (age 43) obtains the throne.