# List of Bronze Age states

The Bronze Age (c. 3300–1200 BC) marks the emergence of the first complex state societies, and by the Middle Bronze Age (mid-3rd millennium BC) 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 less 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 (although these latter societies were not in the Bronze Age cultural stage).

## West Asia

| Name | Capital | State type | Existed |
| Akkadian Empire | Akkad | Empire | 2334–2154 BC |
| Alashiya | Enkomi, Kalavasos | Kingdom | 1450–1050 BC |
| Amurru | Sumer | Kingdom | 2000–1200 BC |
| Arme-Shupria | Van | Kingdom | 1290–1190 BC |
| Armi | Armi | Kingdom city state/client | 2290–40 BC |
| Arzawa | Apasa | Confederation of principalities | 1700–1300 BC |
| Assyria | Assur | Empire | 2025–609 BC |
| Assuwa league | Various | Confederation of city states | 1400–1250 BC |
| Babylonia | Babylon | Empire | 1894–1595 BC |
| Byblos | Byblos | Phoenocian city state | 1800–970 BC |
| Canaan | Various | Confederation of city states | 1800–1194 BC |
| Dilmun | Qal'at | Kingdom | 2600–675 BC |
| Ebla | Ebla | Kingdom | 3500–1600 BC |
| Elam | Susa | Kingdom | 2700–1210 BC |
| Eshnuna | Eshnunna | Kingdom city state | 2000 BC – 8th century BC |
| Gutium | Arrapkha | Kingdom | 2141–2050 BC |
| Hatti | Hattusa | Principality city states | 2700–1900 BC |
| Hayasa-Azzi | Samuha | 2 Kingdom confederation | 1500–1190 BC |
| Hittite Empire | Hattusa | Empire | 1600–1178 BC |
| Hyksos | Itjtawy, Thebes | Confederacy | 1800–1180 BC |
| Isuwa | not specified | Kingdom | 2800 – 12th c BC |
| Kassite | Babylon | Kingdom | 1750–1135 BC |
| Kaskia | Zalpa, Nerik | Tribal confederation/kingdom | 1430–1200 BC |
| Kizzuwatna | Kummanni | Kingdom | 1600–1220 BC |
| Kussara | Kussara | Kingdom city states | 1900–1650 BC |
| Lukka | Not specified | Tribal kingdom | 2000–1183 BC |
| Lullubi | Lulubuna | Tribal kingdom | 2400–650 BC |
| Luvia | | Tribal kingdom | 2000–1400 BC |
| Magan | Not specified | Kingdom | 2200–550 BC |
| Marhasi | Marhaši | Kingdom city state | 2900–1900 BC |
| Mari | Mari | Kingdom city state | 2900–1759 BC |
| Mittani | Washukanni | Kingdom | 1600–1300 BC |
| Namar | Namar | Kingdom | 2350–750 BC |
| Nagar | Nagar | Kingdom | 2600–2300 BC |
| Pala | ? | Kingdom | ???–1178 BC |
| Phoenicia | Various | Kingdom city states | 2500–539 BC |
| Purushanda | Purušhanda | Kingdom city state | 2000–1650 BC |
| Qatna | Qatna | City-State | 2000–1340 BC |
| Sea Peoples | Not specified | Tribal confederacy | 1575–1175 BC |
| Sumer | Various | Kingdom city states | 4500–1900 BC |
| Troas | Troy | Kingdom | 2000–700 BC |
| Ugarit | Ugarit | Kingdom city state | 2500–1090 BC |
| Ur | Ur | city state | 3800–800 BC |
| Urkesh | Urkesh | Kingdom city state/client | 2250–1350 BC |
| Yamhad | Halab | Kingdom | 1810–1525 BC |
| Zalpa | Zalpa | Kingdom city state/client | 1830–1670 BC |

## Africa

| Name | Capital/s | Type | Existed |
| Early Dynastic Egypt | Thinis, Memphis | Kingdom | 3150–2686 BC |
| Old Kingdom of Egypt | Memphis | Kingdom | 2686–2181 BC |
| Kingdom of Egypt | Thebes | Kingdom | 2055–1550 BC |
| Egyptian Empire | Akhetaten, Pi-Ramesses, Thebes | Empire | 1550–1069 BC |
| Nubia | Kerma | Principalities | 2500–15th century BC |
| Libu | Not specified | Tribal chiefdoms | 1550–630 BC |
| Punt | Not specified | Kingdom | 2400–1069 BC |

## Americas

| name | capital | state type | existed |
| Caral–Supe civilization | Various | city states | 3500–1800 BC |
| Casma-Sechin | Various | city state | 3600–200 BC |
| Olmec | La Venta | Kingdom city states | 1600–400 BC |

## Europe

| Name | Capital/s | Type | Existed |
| Minoa | Knossos | Kingdom city states | 3100–1000 BC |
| Mycenaea | Mycenae | Kingdom city states | 1600–1100 BC |
| Sea Peoples | Not specified | Tribal confederacy | 1500 – 1175 BC |

## Asia
### Eurasian Steppe and Central Asia

| Name | Capital | Type | Existed |
| Bactria–Margiana | Gonur | Tribal kingdoms | 2300–1700 BC |
| Colchis | Phasis | Kingdom | 1300 BC – 2nd century AD |

### East Asia

| name | capital | state type | existed |
| Qi | Qi | Dukedom | 1600–445 BC |
| Shang | Anyang | Kingdom | 1600–1046 BC |
| Xia | Yangcheng | Kingdom | 2070–1600 BC |

### South Asia

| name | capital | state type | existed |
| Mehrgarh | Mehrgarh | unclear | 7000 –2500/2000 BC |
| Indus Valley civilization | Harappa ? | unclear | 3300–1300 BC |