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- The Akkadian Empire flourished in the 24th and 22nd centuries BCE, ruled by Sargon and Naram-Sin.
- The Akkadian Empire was an ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad, which united all the indigenous Akkadian speaking Semites and Sumerian speakers under one rule.
- Under Sargon and his successors, the Akkadian Empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries BCE.
- After the fall of the Akkadian Empire, the Akkadian people coalesced into two major Akkadian speaking nations: Assyria in the north, and, a few centuries later, Babylonia in the south.
- The Akkadian Empire is pictured in brown.
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- Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia.
- Akkad was the capital of the Akkadian Empire, which was the dominant political force in Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium BCE .
- The etymology of a-ga-dè is unclear, but not of Akkadian origin.
- Cuneiform sources also suggest that the Akkadians worshipped Ishtar.
- Map of the Near East showing the geographical extent of the Akkadian Empire.
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- As the Akkadian Empire overtook the Sumerian city-states, ceramists continued to produce bowls, vases, jars, and other objects in a variety of shapes and sizes.
- This photograph displays the various forms (including a form that resembles a present-day cake stand) that pottery took during the Akkadian Empire.
- A collection of Akkadian pottery on display at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago.
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- The Assyrian Empire was a major Semitic kingdom, and often empire, of the Ancient Near East.
- Ashur was originally one of a number of Akkadian city states in Mesopotamia.
- In the late 24th century BCE, Assyrian kings were regional leaders under Sargon of Akkad, who united all the Akkadian Semites and Sumerian-speaking peoples of Mesopotamia under the Akkadian Empire (c. 2334 BC-2154 BCE).
- Following the fall of the Akkadian Empire, c. 2154 BCE, and the short-lived succeeding Sumerian Third Dynasty of Ur, which ruled southern Assyria, Assyria regained full independence.
- Additionally, during this period, Assyria overthrew Mitanni and eclipsed both the Hittite Empire and Egyptian Empire in the Near East.
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- "Sumerian" is the name given by the Semitic-speaking Akkadians to non-Semitic speaking people living in Mespotamia.
- Classical Sumer ends with the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 23rd century BCE, and only enjoys a brief renaissance in the 21st century BCE.
- The Sumerians were eventually absorbed into the Akkadian/Babylonian population.
- During the Akkadian Empire period (2334-2218 BCE), many in the region became bilingual in both Sumerian and Akkadian.
- The Gutian period (2218-2047 BCE) was marked by a period of chaos and decline, as Guti barbarians defeated the Akkadian military but were unable to support the civilizations in place.
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- Following the collapse of the Akkadians, the Babylonian Empire flourished under Hammurabi, who conquered many surrounding peoples and empires, in addition to developing an extensive code of law and establishing Babylon as a "holy city" of southern Mesopotamia.
- Following the disintegration of the Akkadian Empire, the Sumerians rose up with the Third Dynasty of Ur in the late 22nd century BCE, and ejected the barbarian Gutians from southern Mesopotamia.
- Hammurabi also entered into a protracted war with the Old Assyrian Empire for control of Mesopotamia and the Near East.
- Both the Babylonians and their Amorite rulers were driven from Assyria to the north by an Assyrian-Akkadian governor named Puzur-Sin, c. 1740 BCE.
- The extent of the Babylonian Empire at the start and end of Hammurabi's reign.
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- The Akkadian Empire had a monarchical form of government which relied on important alliances and an economy that supported high amounts of agricultural surplus, which led to many cultural achievements in language, literature, and bureaucracy.
- Other daughters were married to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire (Urkesh and Marhashe).
- The subsidization of southern populations by the import of wheat from the north of the Empire temporarily overcame this problem and allowed economic recovery and a growing population within this region.
- Sumerian literature continued in rich development during the Akkadian period.
- Explain the basis and function of the Akkadian economy and their major cultural achievements
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- Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Iraq.
- Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Iraq.
- The Amorites, unlike the Sumerians and Akkadian Semites, were not native to Mesopotamia, but were semi-nomadic Semitic invaders from the lands to the west.
- Babylon thus became the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
- By 141 BCE, when the Parthian Empire took over the region again, Babylon was in complete desolation and obscurity.
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- Emperors Cyrus II and Darius I created a centralized government
and extensive trade network in the Achaemenid Empire.
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which is approximately 15 meters high and 25 meters wide, includes three
versions of the text in three different cuneiform languages: Old Persian,
Elamite and Babylonian, which was a version of Akkadian.
- Tariffs on trade were one of the empire's main sources of revenue, along with
agriculture and tribute.
- Darius the Great moved the capital of the Achaemenid Empire to Persepolis around 522 BCE.
- Trade in the Achaemenid Empire was extensive.
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- The Neo-Babylonian Empire developed an artistic style motivated by their ancient Mesopotamian heritage.
- The Neo-Babylonian Empire, also known as the Chaldean Empire, was a civilization in Mesopotamia that began in 626 BC and ended in 539 BC.
- During the preceding three centuries, Babylonia had been ruled by the Akkadians and Assyrians, but threw off the yoke of external domination after the death of Assurbanipal, the last strong Assyrian ruler.
- The Neo-Babylonian rulers were motivated by the antiquity of their heritage and followed a traditionalist cultural policy, based on the ancient Sumero-Akkadian culture.