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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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- 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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- Between the 24th and 22nd century BCE, Ur was controlled by Sargon the Great, of the Akkadian Empire.
- It was ruled by the first dynasty of Babylonia, then part of the Sealand Dynasty, then by the Kassites before falling to the Assyrian Empire from the 10th-7th century BE.
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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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- Following the collapse of the First Babylonian Dynasty under Hammurabi, the Babylonian Empire entered a period of relatively weakened rule under the Kassites for 576 years—
the longest dynasty in Babylonian history.
- This dynasty was the very first native Akkadian-speaking south Mesopotamian dynasty to rule Babylon, and was to remain in power for some 125 years.
- Some initial success in these conflicts gave way to catastrophic defeat at the hands of Tiglath-pileser I, who annexed huge swathes of Babylonian territory, thereby further expanding the Assyrian Empire.
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