Sargon of Akkad

became king. He united the city states and made a small empire. This empire was made of much of Sumer and a little bit of Elam. Elam was one of the neighboring areas and their people were called the Elamites. Then, in 2234 BCE a man by the name of Sargon of Akkad started the Akkadian empire which ruled over Sumer and much of Mesopotamia. The Akkadian Empire was the first multi-national empire in the history of the world. In 2218 BCE, a group called the Gutians invaded from the north and took…

The prefix meso originates from the Greek work, middle. Mesoamerican culture, as well as Mesopotamian, sprang up in the heart of their respective locations. Shared regional settlement is only one of the multiple similarities that these two early civilizations share. This essay will discuss not only the similarities of art and architecture, but also will discuss fundamental differences that occur. The Olmec civilization thrived from c. 1500 BC to 400 BC, in the modern day Mexican states of…

His grandfather, Sargon the Great, began the empire when he conquered Sumer and lands as far west as the Mediterranean Sea. (1) From then on, the empire continued to expand, with Naram-Sin 's rule marking the empire 's peak after conquering the city of Elba. (2) Naram-Sin…

Sun goddess of Arinna, he is likewise served, and serves the “the victorious Storm-god, my lord, Mezzulla and all the [the gods]. Reverberating more than six centuries later, this ideal of absolute piety appears in the Tang-I Var Inscription, as Sargon the king of Assyria was by “Marduk, the gods [my helps] granted [me] a kingship [without] equal” and for his…

The environment is known as the natural world in which we live. It is the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. The environment affects our society everyday. What we decide to do during the day, where we go to vacation, and ultimately where we live. Luckily for us, our society and civilization had already been established with certain rules and customs. Those people who lived in the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greek culture believed that the…

C.E., Hammurabi was an emperor of Mesopotamia. Hammurabi had a great army when he was emperor and was able to keep his empire strong. He had such great war tactics that he was able to gain control of Sumer and Akkad once again and reunite Mesopotamia to almost exactly how it was under Sargon. Not only was he good at war tactics, but he was good at keeping peace among his people. He made sure to make sure Sumerian ways would continue to exist. Hammurabi came up with a set of 282 laws and called…

Early Society in Southwest Asia and the Indo-European Migrations During the fourth millennium population increased in Mesopotamia. Inhabitants had a few presidents who would guide them. These people had to find a way to keep order so they experimented and adapted once again. This was when people created city states which brought political and social order to their territories. Effective political and military organization enabled them to build regional empires. In the sixth millennium Sumer…

In this excerpt, I will be comparing two primarily documents namely the epic of Gilgamesh and Code of Hammurabi. I have chosen these documents for the insight they give us about Mesopotamia civilazation;the world’s first civliztion.The epic of Gilgamesh was written around 2000B.C.E and perfectly gives us details about the society at that time. Code of Hammurabi was also written around 1754B.C.E. They are historically significant as they are the rigins of civilization that shaped the sociert and…

Chapter 1 Before History Discoveries have found that about 5 million years ago there were different species of human ancestors belonging to the genus of Australopithecus. It is said that they had emerged in the areas of eastern Africa, specifically in the regions of Tanzania, Kenya, and Ethiopia. This species, however, were not apes but rather a creature in the Hominidae family, that had human like features. “They would seem short, hairy, and limited with intelligence. They stood something over…

Enheduanna (~2300 BCE): Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire in Ancient Sumeria, approximately 2300 BCE. She is the largely credited as being the world’s first named author; she wrote numerous poems, psalms, and prayers which lay the foundation for later Hebrew psalms and the Homeric Hymns of Ancient Greece. Enheduanna served as High Priestess to the Akkadian Empire, and was charged with the responsibility to maintain the city’s temple complex…