{"slug": "mari-syria", "label": "Mari, Syria", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari%2C_Syria", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q244762", "qid": "Q244762", "description": "ancient Sumerian and Amorite city", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-2899, -1749], "span_label": ["2900 BCE", "1750 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hammurabi", "label": "Hammurabi", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "babylonia", "label": "Babylonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elam", "label": "Elam", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -2899, "year_label": "2900 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "2900 BC: First Mariote Kingdom founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371895849#Events", "title": "29th century BC", "revid": 1371895849, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -2539, "year_label": "2540 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "2540 BC: Mesannepada, who has already dominated the city of Nippur, takes advantage of an eclipse of power in Kish (caused by an incursion by the Elamites of Awan) to seize the city. He becomes the ruler of all of Lower Mesopotamia as he becomes the king of Kish, and his name appears on a pearl in Mari.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371895844#Mesopotamia", "title": "26th century BC", "revid": 1371895844, "section": "Events › Mesopotamia"}}, {"year": -2349, "year_label": "2350 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "c. 2350 BC: First destruction of the city of Mari.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371895851#Events", "title": "24th century BC", "revid": 1371895851, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -1791, "year_label": "1792 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "c. 1792 BC – 1750 BC: (middle chronology) – Hammurabi rules Babylonia and has to deal with Mari, which he conquers late in his career.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370570236#Events", "title": "18th century BC", "revid": 1370570236, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -1778, "year_label": "1779 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "1779 BC: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, starts to rule.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370570236#Events", "title": "18th century BC", "revid": 1370570236, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -1756, "year_label": "1757 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "1757 BC: Mari sacked by Hammurabi. Zimrilim's palace is destroyed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370570236#Events", "title": "18th century BC", "revid": 1370570236, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -1756, "year_label": "1757 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "1757 BC: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, dies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370570236#Events", "title": "18th century BC", "revid": 1370570236, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -1749, "year_label": "1750 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "c. 1750 BC: Investiture of Zimrilim (Zimrilim, King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar), facsimile of a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari (modern Tell Hariri, Syria), Court 106, is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370570236#Events", "title": "18th century BC", "revid": 1370570236, "section": "Events"}}]}