List of wars: before 1000
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This is a list of wars that began before 1000 AD. Other wars can be found in the historical lists of wars and the list of wars extended by diplomatic irregularity.
Prehistoric warfare
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Talheim | ||
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Schletz | ||
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Hamoukar | Uruk? | |
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c. 3400–1000 BC
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| c. 3400–3100 BC | Enmerkar's campaigns against Aratta* | Uruk under Enmerkar | Aratta | ||
| c. 3250 BC | Unification of Upper Egypt*<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
Thinite Confederacy under Scorpion I | Rival city-states of Upper Egypt, incl. Taurus (Bull) | ||
| c. 3200 BC | Naqada III northern expansion | Naqada III | Maadi-Buto culture | ||
| c. 3100 BC | Upper Egypt annexation of Lower Egypt*<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Upper Egypt under Narmer | Lower Egypt under Wash | ||
| c. 3100 BC | Burning of Arslantepe<ref>WFrangipane, Marcella. "The Arslantepe Royal Tomb: A Unique Discovery from the Early Bronze Age I Period." Paléorient 29, no. 2 (2003): 143-157.</ref> | Kura–Araxes | Arslantepe | ||
| c. 3100 BC | Hor-Aha's Nubia Campaign*<ref>W. M. Flinders Petrie: The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties 1901, Part II, London 1901, Taf. XI,1</ref> | Egypt | Nubia | ||
| c. 3000 BC | Djer's campaigns into Sinai<ref>Wilkinson, Toby A. H. (1999). Early Dynastic Egypt. Routledge. p. 79</ref> | Egypt | Setjet | ||
| c. 3000 BC | Djer's campaigns into Libya<ref>"First Dynasty of Egypt". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 28 July 2025.</ref> | Egypt | Tjehenu | ||
| c. 2970 BC | Den's Eastern Campaign<ref>Wilkinson, Toby A. H. (1999). Early Dynastic Egypt. Routledge. pp. 84, 133, 148.</ref> | Egypt | Setjet | ||
| c. 2900 BC | Civil war between Horus Bird and Sneferka<ref name="PeKa">Peter Kaplony: "Er ist ein Liebling der Frauen" – Ein "neuer" König und eine neue Theorie zu den Kronprinzen sowie zu den Staatsgöttinnen (Kronengöttinnen) der 1./2. Dynastie. In: Manfred Bietak: Ägypten und Levante. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 2006 Template:ISBN; pp. 126–127.</ref><ref>Dietrich Wildung: Die Rolle ägyptischer Könige im Bewußtsein ihrer Nachwelt. pp. 36–41.</ref><ref name="WoHe">Wolfgang Helck: Untersuchungen zur Thinitenzeit. (Ägyptologische Abhandlungen, Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, Template:ISBN; p.117</ref> | Reconciliation under Hotepsekhemwy | |||
| c. 2900 BC – 2700 BC | Kish-Elam War*<ref name="RIME1">Frayne, Douglas R, "KIŠ", in Presargonic Period: Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700–2350 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Vol 1, pp. 49–60, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008 Template:ISBN</ref> | Kish under Enmebaragesi | Elam | ||
| c. 2760-2740 BC | Second Dynasty Civil War | Khasekhemwy | Lower Egypt | ||
| c. 2600 BC | Aga's Siege of Uruk<ref>Sherman Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore p. 201</ref> | Uruk under Gilgamesh | Kish under Aga | ||
| c. 2600 BC | Campaigns of Sneferu<ref name="Ancient Egypt pg. 144">An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt, p. 144</ref><ref>The Complete Royal Families, p. 50</ref> | Egypt | Nubia Libya Levant | ||
| c. 2500 BC | Campaigns of Ur-Nanshe<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Lagash | Ur Umma | |
| c. 2450 BC | Campaigns of Eannatum<ref name="HANEA">Template:Cite book</ref> | Lagash | Ur Uruk Larsa Nippur Akshak Umma and others | ||
| c. 2440 BC | Campaigns of Enshakushanna | Uruk | Hamazi Akkad Kish Nippur | ||
| c. 2423 BC | c. 2300 BC | Mari-Ebla War | Mari | Ebla Nagar Emar Kish Armi | |
| c. 2400 BC | Umma's first war of independence*<ref name="CGLI">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Lagash under Enannatum I | Umma under Ur-Lumma | |
| c. 2365 BC | Lugal-Anne-Mundu's campaign on Ur<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Adab | Ur | |
| c. 2400 BC | c. 2400 BC | Umma's second war of independence<ref name="WS77">Template:Cite book</ref> | Lagash Uruk |
Umma | |
| c. 2350 BC | c. 2350 BC | Campaigns of Lugal-zage-si<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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Umma | Kish Lagash Ur Nippur Larsa Uruk |
| Late 24th century BC | Formation of the Akkadian Empire<ref>Samuel Noah Kramer, The Sumerians, Chicago University Press, 1971, Template:ISBN</ref> | Akkad Kish (after being conquered) |
Kish (before being conquered) Lagash Uruk Umma Ur Kazallu | ||
| Early 23rd century BC | Sargon's campaigns northeast of the Akkadian Empire | Akkadian Empire | Mari Yarmuti Ebla | ||
| Early 23rd century BC | Sargon's invasion of Elam<ref name="DF22">Template:Cite book</ref> | Akkadian Empire | Elam Susa Marhasi | ||
| c. 2230 BC | c. 2230 BC | Naram-Sin's campaign on the Lullubi | Akkadian Empire | Lullubi | |
| c. 2220 BC | c. 2150 BC | Gutian raids and conquests in the Akkadian Empire | Gutium | Akkadian Empire | |
| c. 2100 BC | c. 2100 BC | Gutian conquest of Elam<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Gutium | Elam | |
| c. 2119 BC | c. 2119 BC | Fall of the Gutian dynasty | Uruk | Gutium | |
| c. 2112 BC | c. 2112 BC | Ur-Nammu's conquest of Lagash | Neo-Sumerian Empire | Lagash | |
| c. 2004 BC | c. 2004 BC | Fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire | Elam Susa |
Neo-Sumerian Empire | |
| c. 2000 BC | c. 2000 BC | War in Persenbet | Segerseni | Unclear | |
| c. 1822 BC | c. 1763 BC | Campaigns of Rim-Sin I | Larsa | Uruk Isin Der Babylon Sutum Rapiqum | |
| c. 1801 BC | c. 1770 BC | Elam's Invasion into Mesopotamia<ref name=":3">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Elam Babylon Mari |
Eshnunna Minor city states | |
| c. 1770 BC | c. 1763 BC | Elamite attack on Babylon<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> | Babylon Larsa |
Elam | |
| c. 1763 BC | c. 1763 BC | Hammurabi's Conquest on Larsa<ref name=":0" /> | Babylon Yamhad Mari |
Larsa | |
| c. 1760 BC | c. 1760 BC | Hammurabi's Conquests in the North<ref name=":0" /> | Babylon | Mari Minor city states | |
| c. 1760 BC | c. 1760 BC | Hammurabi's War with Assyria<ref name=":0" /> | Babylon Minor city states |
Assyria Minor city states | |
| c. 1740 BC | c. 1570 BC | Kassite invasions into Babylon | Kassites | Babylon Remnants of the Babylonian Empire (after c. 1595 BC) | |
| c. 1732 BC | c. 1732 BC | Puzur-Sin's Uprising | Assyria | Amorites Babylon | |
| c. 1732 BC | c. 1726 or 1720 BC | Assyrian Civil War | Troops of Adasi | Troops of Puzur-Sin Troops of Ashur-apla-idi Troops of Nasir-Sin Troops of Sin-namir Troops of Ipqi-Ishtar Troops of Adad-salulu Amorites Babylon | |
| c. 1732 BC | c. 1732 BC | Foundation of the Sealand dynasty | Troops of Ilum-ma-ili | Babylon | |
| c. 1700 BC | c. 1700 BC | Babylonian Attack on the Sealand Dynasty | Sealand dynasty | Babylon | |
| c. 1650 BC | c. 1620 BC | Campaigns of Hattusili I<ref name="Bryce">Bryce, Trevor R., (2018). "The Annals and Lost Golden Statue of the Hittite King Hattusili I", in Gephyra 16, November 2018, pp. 1–12.</ref> | Hittite Empire | Alalakh Arzawa Hurrians Smaller Syrian city states | |
| c. 1600 BC | c. 1600 BC | Xia–Shang War<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> | Shang Rebel Forces | Xia dynasty | |
| c. 1600 BC | c. 1595 BC | Campaigns of Mursili I | Hittite Empire | Yamhad Babylon Smaller Syrian city states | |
| c. 1595 BC | c. 1595 BC | Sack of Babylon | Hittite Empire | Babylon | |
| c. 1523 BC | c. 1517 BC | Conquest of the Hyksos | Egypt | Hyksos | |
| c. 1506 BC | c. 1502 BC | Campaigns of Thutmose I | Egyptian Empire | Nubia | |
| c. 1493 BC | before c. 1479 BC | Campaigns of Thutmose II | Egyptian Empire | Nubia Shasu | |
| c. 1457 BC | c. 1456 BC | Thutmose III's First Syria Campaign*<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Egyptian Empire | Canaan Kadesh Megiddo Mitanni | |
| c. 1456 BC | c. 1455 BC | Thutmose III's Second Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Canaan Retjenu | |
| c. 1455 BC | c. 1454 BC | Thutmose III's Third Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Canaan Retjenu | |
| c. 1454 BC | c. 1453 BC | Thutmose III's Fourth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Canaan Retjenu | |
| c. 1450 BC | c. 1449 BC | Thutmose III's Fifth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Canaan Retjenu Kadesh Tunip Phoenicia | |
| c. 1449 BC | c. 1448 BC | Thutmose III's Sixth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Byblos Retjenu Kadesh | |
| c. 1448 BC | c. 1447 BC | Thutmose III's Seventh Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Retjenu Phoenicia | |
| c. 1447 BC | c. 1446 BC | Thutmose III's Attack on Mitanni (Eighth Syria Campaign)* | Egyptian Empire | Mitanni | |
| c. 1445 BC | c. 1444 BC | Thutmose III's Ninth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Nuhašše | |
| c. 1444 BC | c. 1443 BC | Thutmose III's Tenth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Mitanni | |
| c. 1443 BC | c. 1442 BC | Thutmose III's Eleventh Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Unknown | |
| c. 1442 BC | c. 1441 BC | Thutmose III's Twelfth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Unknown | |
| c. 1441 BC | c. 1440 BC | Thutmose III's Thirteenth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Nuhašše | |
| c. 1440 BC | c. 1439 BC | Thutmose III's Fourteenth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Shasu | |
| c. 1439 BC | c. 1438 BC | Thutmose III's Fifteenth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Unknown | |
| c. 1438 BC | c. 1437 BC | Thutmose III's Sixteenth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Unknown | |
| c. 1437 BC | c. 1436 BC | Thutmose III's Seventeenth Syria Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Mitanni Tunip Kadesh | |
| c. 1430 BC | c. 1200 BC | Kaska invasions into the Hittite Empire | Hittite Empire | Kaska Azzi-Hayasa Mushki | |
| c. 1429 BC | c. 1428 BC | Thutmose III's Nubian Campaign* | Egyptian Empire | Nubia | |
| c. 14th century BC | Battle of the Ten Kings | Trtsu-Bharata | Alina Anu Bhrigus Bhalanas Dasa Druhyus Mātsyeyas Persians Puru Panis | ||
| c. 1400 BC | c. 1350 BC | Hittite Wars of Survival | The Hittites | Kaska Hayasa-Azzi Isuwa Arzawa | |
| c. 1345 BC | c. 1345 BC | Great Syrian War | The Hittites | Mitanni | |
| c. 1315 BC | c. 1315 BC | Arzawa Revolt<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Arzawa Ahhiyawa |
Hittite Empire | |
| c. 1276 BC | c. 1275 BC | Ramesses II's First Syrian Campaign<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Egypt | Canaan Amurru kingdom | |
| c. 1274 BC | c. 1274 BC | Ramesses II's Second Syrian campaign<ref>Lorna Oakes, Pyramids, Temples & Tombs of Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Atlas of the Land of the Pharaohs, Hermes House: 2003, p. 142.</ref><ref>Around "Year 5 III Shemu day 9" of Ramesses II's reign (James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, vol. III, p. 317) or more precisely: May 12, 1274 BC based on Ramesses' commonly accepted accession date in 1279 BC.</ref> | Hittite Empire | New Kingdom of Egypt | |
| c. 1270 BC | c. 1270 BC | Ramesses II's Third Syrian Campaign | Egypt | Hittite Empire | |
| c. 1270 BC | c. 1269 BC | Ramesses II's Later Syrian Campaigns | New Kingdom of Egypt | Hittite Empire | |
| c. 1267 BC | c. 1267 BC | Hittite Civil War of 1267 B.C. | Hattusili III | Mursili III | |
| c. 1260 BC | c. 1260 BC | Ramesses II's Nubian Campaigns | Egypt | Nubia | |
| c. 1260 BC | c. 1255 BC | Piyama-Radu Revolt<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Piyama-Radu Ahhiyawa |
Hittite Empire | |
| c. 1250 BC | c. 1250 BC | Ramesses II's Libyan Campaigns | Egypt | Libya | |
| c. 1235 BC | c. 1235 BC | Babylonian–Assyrian War of 1235 BC | Assyria | Babylonia | |
| c. 1206 BC | c. 1150 BC | Late Bronze Age collapse<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> | Sea peoples | Hittites | |
| c. 1203 BC | c. 1187 BC | Wars of succession in 19th Dynasty Egypt<ref name="oxford">Template:Cite book</ref> | Setnakhte | Amenmesse, Seti II and Tausret | |
| c. 1194 BC | c. 1184 BC | Trojan War<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Achaeans (mainly Mycenaens and Spartans) | Troy | |
| c. 1190 BC | c. 1190 BC | Destruction of Ugarit<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> | Unknown (probably the Sea Peoples) | Ugarit | |
| c. 1184–1155 BC | Elamite invasion of Babylonia | Elam | Babylonia | ||
| c. 1110 BC | c. 1110 BC | Babylonian War with Elam<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Babylonia | Elam | |
| c. 1100 BC | c. 1100 BC | Kurukshetra war<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | Forces of Pandavas under Yudhishthira | Forces of Kauravas under Duryodhana | |
| c. 1046 BC | c. 1046 BC | Shang–Zhou War<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> | Zhou rebel forces | Shang dynasty | |
| c. 1042 BC | c. 1039 BC | Rebellion of the Three Guards<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | King Cheng of Zhou | Shu Du of Cai | |
999 BC – 1 BC
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1 AD – 1000 AD
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