Mesopotamia Civilization

Most people have heard about Mesopotamia, but don’t know much about the area. Mesopotamia comes from the Greek meaning “between two rivers”. These rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates. The Tigris River flows through modern day Iraq and the Euphrates Rivers flows through Syria. This area was an region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded by in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau (Scarre, Christopher. The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2005). This area of civilization is where today 's Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria are now. The dates of settlement in Mesopotamia were the Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, Classical Antiquity and the Late Antiquity. Ancient Mesopotamia has a long history of many different periods of people living here, creating all of these different …show more content…
Starting off with the Early Bronze Age. This contained the Early Dynastic period which lasted from 2900-2100 B.C. The Early Dynastic period is divided into three different phases called “ED I-II” (Early Dynastic Period 1-3). As for information on the about the names of kings and important figures in the first Early Dynastic period, they have not been found yet. But as for the second Early Dynastic period, Gilgamesh, who was the famous king of Uruk reigned during this period of time. In the third Early Dynastic period, which is also known as the Fara period, syllabic writing had just started to become very big. Humans were speaking in full speech at about 2600 B.C. After the Early Dynastic period, the Akkadian Empire occurred from 2350-2100 B.C. This empire was an ancient Semitic empire near the city of Akkad. The Akkadian Empire united all Akkadian speaking Semites and the Sumerian speakers. But by doing this, they would all have to agree that the Akkadian Empire controlled Levant, Mesopotamia, and parts of