10 Third Dynasty of UR Neo-Sumerian Empire

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Third Dynasty of UR

The Third Dynasty of Ur rose to power around 2100 BC. Ur fell in 2004 BC. Ur was not called Ur of the Chaldeans until the time of the Neo-Babylonian empire. Abraham is was from Ur, but there was another Ur up North near Haran.

he Third Dynasty of Ur, also known as the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to both a 21st to 20th century BC (short chronology timeline)Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians consider to have been a nascent empire. The Third Dynasty of Ur is commonly abbreviated asUr III by historians studying the period.

The Third Dynasty of Ur was the last Sumerian dynasty which came to preeminent power in Mesopotamia. It began after several centuries of control by Akkadian and Gutian kings. It controlled the cities of Isin,Larsa and Eshnunna and extended as far north as the Jazira

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The 3rd Dynasty

of Ur

(2112-2004 BC)

The Third Dynasty of Ur refers simultaneously to a Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state that some historians regard as a nascent empire. The Third Dynasty of Ur is commonly abbreviated as Ur III by historians of the period. The dynasty is also known as the Sumerian Renaissance or the Ur III Empire.

The Third Dynasty of Ur came to preeminent power in Mesopotamia after several centuries of Akkadian and Gutian kings. It controlled the cities of Isin, Larsa and Eshnunna and extended as far north as the Jezira.

KINGS OF UR

Utu-hegal: 2119-2113 
Ur-Nammu: 2212-c. 2095 
Shulgi: 2094-2047 
Amar-Sin: 2046-2037 
Shu-Sin: 2037-2027 
Ibbi-Sin: 2026-2004?

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Utu-hegal: 2055-2048
Ur-Nammu: 2047-2030
Shulgi: 2029-1982
Amar-Sin: 1981-1973
Shu-Sin: 1972-1964
Ibbi-Sin: 1963-1940 

With the fall of the Ur III Dynasty after to an Elamite invasion in 2004 BC, Babylonia fell under foreign (Amorite) influence.:

Third Dynasty of uR

wandering nomads, the Amorites, to their east and west. The nomads sometimes traded with the city people, and sometimes attacked them, and sometimes the city people attacked the nomadsand tried to make them pay taxes. Gradually the Amorites became more settled, though they also conquered some of the cities, including Babylon. Eventually the Amorites made themselves the rulers of most of the land between the Persian Gulf and southern Turkey (where they got into fights with the Hittites and Hurrians), and all down the Mediterranean coast through Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel. Their descendants formed the Babylonian Empire.   

t the end of this period, around 1700 BC, the Amorites may have even invaded Egypt, where they were called the Hyksos, or foreigners.

For Ur and the cities of the valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates (Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers), this was a good time. They had their independence back for a while, though many cities fell under Amorite rule. More greatziggurats were built, in particular at Ur.

It was around this time, according to the Bible, that another Semiticnomadic group, the Jews, who had been living around Ur, left and wandered west toward the Mediterranean coast. But probably the Jews really started out in the Levant, along the coast. There may be some truth to the Bible story, but nobody knows what that might be.