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 lesssex 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
AhhiyawaMilawata or MillawandaKingdom1450 – 1220 BC
Akkadian EmpireAkkadEmpire2334 – 2193 BC
AmoriteVariousUnited kingdoms2000 – 1595 BC
ArattaArattaKingdomc. 2700 – ? BC
ArameansVariousTribal chiefdom's/kingdom2300 – 700 BC
Arme-ShupriaVanKingdom1290 – 1190 BC
ArmiArmiKingdom city state/client2290 – 40 BC
ArzawaApasaConfederation of principalities2300 – 1200 BC
AssyriaAssurKingdom1975 – 934 BC
Assuwa LeagueVariousConfederation of city states1300 – 1250 BC
BabyloniaBabylonKingdom1894 – 732 BC
BashanBashanConfederation1330 – 928 BC
ByblosByblosCity state1800 – 970 BC
CanaanVariousConfederation of city states3500 – 1194 BC
Karuwa or CariaApasaKingdom1250 – 560 BC
DardaniaDardaniaKingdom1527 – 1183 BC
DilmunQal'atKingdom2600 – 675 BC
EblaEblaKingdom3500 – 1600 BC
EdomRabbath AmmonKingdom1200 – 125 BC
ElamSusaKingdom2700 – 1210 BC
EshnunaEshnunnaKingdom city state2000 BC – 8th century BC
GanharGanharKingdom city statec. 2350 BC – 2250 BC
GutiumArrapkhaKingdom2108 – 2089 BC
HattiHattusaPrincipality city states2700 – 1900 BC
Hayasa-AzziSamuha2 Kingdom confederation1500 – 1190 BC
HittiHattussaKingdom1900 – 1600 BC
Hittite EmpireHattusaEmpire1600 – 1178 BC
HyksosItjtawy, ThebesConfederacy1800 – 1178 BC
Isuwanot specifiedKingdom3000 – 12th c BC
Kassite?Tribal federationc. 21st c – 1750 BC
KassiteBabylonKingdom1750 – 1135 BC
KaskiaZalpa, NerikTribal confederation/kingdom1430 – 1200 BC
KizzuwatnaKummanniKingdom1600 – 1220 BC
KussaraKussaraKingdom city states1900 – 1650 BC
LydiaSardisKingdom1200 – 680 BC
LukkaNot specifiedTribal kingdom2000 – 1183 BC
LullubiLulubunaTribal kingdom2400 – 650 BC
LuviaTribal kingdom2300 – 1400 BC
MaganNot specifiedKingdom2200 – 550 BC
Ma'inḤaram, YathillKingdom1200 – 85 BC
MarhasiMarhašiKingdom city state2900 – 1900 BC
MariMariKingdom city state2900 – 1759 BC
MinoaKnossosKingdom city states2700 – 1420 BC
MittaniWashukanniKingdom1690 – 1300 BC
MysiaPergameneKingdom1320 – 301 BC
NamarNamarKingdom2350 – 750 BC
MoabDibonKingdom1300 - 400 BC
PaphlagoniaGangraKingdom1480 – 183 BC
PhoeniciaVariousKingdom city states1800 – 539 BC
PhrygiaGordiumKingdom1200 – 547 BC
PurushandaPurušhandaKingdom city state2000 – 1650 BC
Sam'alSamalPrincipality/kingdom1200 – 680 BC
Sea PeoplesNot specifiedTribal confederacyc. 2000 – 1175 BC
SumerVariousKingdom city states4500 – 1900 BC
TroasTroyKingdom3000 – 700 BC
TyreTyreKingdom city state1500 – 990 BC
UgaritUgaritKingdom city state2500 – 1090 BC
Upper MesopotamiaAssurKingdom1809 – 1776 BC
UrkeshUrkeshKingdom city state/client2250 – 1350 BC
WilusaWilusaKingdom city statec.2000 – 1180 BC
YamhadHalabKingdom1810 – 1525 BC
ZabshaliZalpaKingdom city statec.2050 – 2000 BC
ZalpaZalpaKingdom city state/client1830 – 1670 BC

North Africa

Americas

Europe

NameCapital/sTypeExisted
AthensAthensKingdom city state1556 – 1068 BC
Alba LongaLaviniumKingdom1200 – 753 BC
AlashiyaEnkomi, KalavasosKingdom1450 – 1050 BC
CrestoniaCrestonPrincipality14th century BC – 431 BC
ElisElisKingdom1300 BC – 431 BC
LacedaemonSpartaKingdom1300 – 950 BC
LocriaAmphissa, NaupactusKingdom1250 – 386 BC
MesseniaMesseneKingdom1300 – 724 BC
MinoaKnossosKingdom city states2700 – 1420 BC
MycenaeaMycenaeKingdom city states1600 – 1100 BC
MygdoniaNot specifiedTribal kingdom16th century BC – 6th century BC
PelasgiaPavlopetriTribal kingdom3000 – 1183 BC
PhrygiaNot specifiedTribal kingdom1450 – 1200 BC
Sea PeoplesNot specifiedTribal confederacyc. 2000 – 1175 BC
SicaniNot specifiedTribal confederationc. 13th century – 300 BC
ThraceVariousTribal chiefdoms1500 – 450 BC

Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia

East Asia

namecapitalstate typeexisted
BaYíchéngTribal confederation13th century BC – 311 BC
GojoseonAsadal, Wanggeom-seongKingdom2333 – 108 BC
QiQiDukedom1600 – 445 BC
QiangNot specifiedTribal chiefdoms/confederation2000 BC – 150 BC
ShangAnyangKingdom1600 – 1046 BC
SumpaNot specifiedTribal chiefdom/client1600 BC – 7th century AD
Văn LangAnyangConfederation/kingdom2879 – 258 BC
XiaYangchengKingdom2205 – 1600 BC
XuGusuViscountcy/client2000 – 512 BC

South Asia

namecapitalstate typeexisted
AngaChampāKingdom1100 – 500 BC
ĀryāvartaMultipleTribal confederated kingdoms1000 – 300 BC
GandharaKapisa, PushkalavatiKingdom1500 – 535 BC
Indus Valley CivilizationHarappa ?unclear3300 – 1300 BC
KambojaRajapuraKingdom1450 – 195 BC
KasmiraAsirgarh QilaKingdom1250 – 322 BC
KekeyaKingdom1250 – c. 4th century BC
KirataTribal kingdom1350 – c. 300 BC
KosalaAyodhyaKingdom1300 – 266 BC
KuruĀsandīvat, IndraprasthaKingdom1376 – 285 BC
LankaLankapuraKingdom1200 – 543 BC
MadraSagalaKingdom1350 – 350 BC
MagadhaRajagriha or RajgirKingdom1700 – 544 BC
MatsyaViratanagaraKingdom1250 – 318 BC
PanchalaAhichatra, KampilyaKingdom1200 – 700 BC
PundraPundravardhanaKingdom1300 BC – 550 AD
SindhuVrsadarbhpuraKingdom1300 – 320 BC
VangaGangeKingdom1300 BC – 580 AD
VidarbhaKundinapuriKingdom1200 – 322 BC
VirataVirata NagariKingdom1300 – 322 BC
VrijiVaishaliConfederacy1250 – 322 BC
YakshaNarmadaKingdom1200 – 350 BC