The Nuprigan River and the Tigariha River.
The Nuprigan River and the Tigariha River.
The majority of Neolithic town Sumerian city-states and early empires are located near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia. These rivers provided a consistent water source for agriculture and transportation, leading to the development of advanced civilizations in the region.
Fertile Crescent.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers were assets to the early peoples of Sumer. They remain important rivers to this day.
The Neolithic Revolution ended in about 600 C.E., when people started settling down and empires started developing.
The Akkadians & The Babylon
The Akkadians & The Babylon
The Akkadian Empires conquered the Babylonian Empire and now the Babylonians speak the Sumerian Languages
There were also the Sumerian, Chaldean, and Assyrian Empires , as well as the kingdom of Egypt. But these weren't the major Empires.
The Neolithic Revolution ended in about 600 C.E., when people started settling down and empires started developing.
It was the area of modern Iraq. They became empires. First were the Sumerian followed by the Assyrians. The capital was the city of Nineveh. Then came the Babylon empire which the city was the capital.
The Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians established control and protection of the city-states and tribes within the empires they created, as opposed to the independent Sumerian city-states which warred with each other.