Ancient Mesopotamia Essay

Ancient Mesopotamia is where modern Iraq is at nowadays. It was a collection of what we call city-states. It was a relatively small geographic area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. This land was called the fertile crescent.in the Neolithic revolution, the fertile crescent became an agricultural area, used the rivers flooding to set up fields and starting living a settled life. They were small and very isolated, which kept the are fragmented politically.
When we think of civilization, we see that starts to happen with Sargon. Sargon created what we consider to be the first empire. It unified what we call Sumer and Akkad. Summer was a city-state in the south of Fertile Crescent, and Akkad was more to the Northern. The next empire/ civilization is the third Ur dynasty, also called the Neo-Sumerian period because it brought back a lot of the culture of ancient Sumer. The Ur dynasty eventually fell in about 2004 B.C. Then the next empire was Babylonians, it starts of the Assyrian empire occurred about the same time. The influence of Babylonian empire including the Hammurabi’s code and what we consider to be the first written law. Hammurabi unified Mesopotamia again, and there was an extended period of time where it controlled all regions of Mesopotamia. Around the same time, Egypt was facing a threat from the Hittites and fell. This is the time where the city-states were independent and things we chaotic. At the end of millennia, the Assyrian rose to power,
Determining the most successful one is a little subjective. However, Assyrian empires lasted the longest and brought vast changes to the area. Assyrian civilization was able to hold onto control of their city-states and territories for the most prolonged period. During this time, Assyrian empire rose and fell repeatedly; they had fearsome armies with lethal weapons. Their city was strong and impressive. I think all that makes it the most powerful/successful.