WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Collapse of the Uruk cities left a vacuum in Mesopotamia. But that was soon filled by the first “civilizations” or city-states and empires of the world. In Mesopotamia these appeared in the Early Bronze Age (about 3, 200–2, 100 BCE).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Akkadians In 2334 BCE, Sargon of Akkad launched a series of conquests from his city on the Euphrates River. The empire he conquered extended from the Persian Gulf, up the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as far as Anatolia (modern Turkey). To support his wars, Sargon created the world’s first permanent army.