 His armies penetrated to Lake Van and the Taurus Mountains; the Neo-Hittites of Carchemish were compelled to pay tribute, and the kingdoms of Hamath and Aram Damascus were subdued.It is in the annals of Shalmaneser III from the 850s BC that the Arabs and Chaldeans first appear in recorded history.Shalmaneser began a campaign against Urartian Kingdom and reported that in 858 BC he demolished the city of Sugunia and then in 853 BC also Araškun.