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... seasonal floods. They also built waterways to bring water to their fields. This irrigation allowed the farmers to grow plenty of food and support a large population. ...
... seasonal floods. They also built waterways to bring water to their fields. This irrigation allowed the farmers to grow plenty of food and support a large population. ...
In the Land of Sumer - White Plains Public Schools
... • Sumer never developed into one single unified country, but the Sumerians were the first people to develop a civilization (3500 BC) • Sumer was a collection of wide spread city-states: Uruk, Ur, Kish, Larsa, Lagash, Nippur, Akkad, Eridu –United under Sargon the Great City-states warred over water ...
... • Sumer never developed into one single unified country, but the Sumerians were the first people to develop a civilization (3500 BC) • Sumer was a collection of wide spread city-states: Uruk, Ur, Kish, Larsa, Lagash, Nippur, Akkad, Eridu –United under Sargon the Great City-states warred over water ...
SARGON I The First Emperor
... for Babylonian goods. • Hammurabi rules for 40 years. When he dies, everything breaks up again into city-states. ...
... for Babylonian goods. • Hammurabi rules for 40 years. When he dies, everything breaks up again into city-states. ...
Mesopotamia PowerPoint Notes
... Why were river valleys important? Farming - large amounts of people could be fed Trade - goods and ideas to move from place to place. Cities - grow up in these valleys and became the centers of civilizations. ...
... Why were river valleys important? Farming - large amounts of people could be fed Trade - goods and ideas to move from place to place. Cities - grow up in these valleys and became the centers of civilizations. ...
Four Empires - Sayre School
... • The Akkadian Empire lasted about 200 years. • The Sumerian city-states briefly reemerged after the Akkadians fell. ...
... • The Akkadian Empire lasted about 200 years. • The Sumerian city-states briefly reemerged after the Akkadians fell. ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
... This long epic poem is about a Sumerian king who lived between 2700 and 2500 B.C. The universal themes are: how to become known and respected how to cope with the loss of a dear friend how to accept one’s own inevitable death ...
... This long epic poem is about a Sumerian king who lived between 2700 and 2500 B.C. The universal themes are: how to become known and respected how to cope with the loss of a dear friend how to accept one’s own inevitable death ...
Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire /əˈkeɪdiən/ was an ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad /ˈækæd/ and its surrounding region, also called Akkad in ancient Mesopotamia. The empire united all the indigenous Akkadian-speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers under one rule. The Akkadian Empire controlled Mesopotamia, the Levant, and parts of Iran.During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Semitic Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism. Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate).The Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BC, following the conquests by its founder Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 BC). Under Sargon and his successors, Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam. Akkad is sometimes regarded as the first empire in history, though there are earlier Sumerian claimants.After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Akkadian people of Mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major Akkadian speaking nations: Assyria in the north, and, a few centuries later, Babylonia in the south.