CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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Persian
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Akkadian
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Assyrian
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first cities and empires formed here. As you will see from the timeline, power changed hands many times throughout the ancient history of this area. It went from the Sumer to the Akkadians to the Babylonians to the Assyrians back to the Babylonians back to the Assyrians and finally to the Persians.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 3000 B.C., Mesopotamia was firmly under the control of the Sumerian people. Sumer contained several decentralized city-states-Eridu, Nippur, Lagash, Uruk, Kish and Ur.
Detailed explanation-3: -They were the Akkadian Empire, the Babylonian (bah-buh-LOH-nyuhn) Empire, the Assyrian (uh-SIR-ee-un) Empire, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mesopotamia-the land “between the rivers” in modern-day Iraq-was home to the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.