The regional place name Mesopotamia (/ m ɛ s ə p ə t eɪ m i ə /, Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμια "[the land]
between rivers"; Arabic: Balad ٱ lrafdyn Bilad 'ar-Rafidayn
Geography
it encompasses the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, both of which
have their headwaters in the Taurus Mountains. Both rivers are fed by numerous
tributaries, and the entire river system drains a vast mountainous region.
History
In the interior of Mesopotamia, agriculture and livestock
were imposed between 6000 and 5000 BC. C., assuming the
full entrance to the Neolithic. During this period, new
production techniques that had been developed in the early
Neolithic area spread to regions of later development,
including inland Mesopotamia.
Sumerians and Akkadians
The Sumerian was the first Mesopotamian civilization. After the year 3000 a. The Sumerians created
a set of city-states in lower Mesopotamia. whose economy was based on irrigation. In them an
absolute king ruled, who called himself "vicar" of the protector god of the city. The Sumerians were
the first to use writing (cuneiform writing) and they also built large temples
The archaic dynastic period
The spread of the advances of the Uruk culture throughout the rest of southern Mesopotamia gave
rise to the birth of the Sumerian culture. These techniques allowed the proliferation of cities by new
territories and regions.
The Akkadian Empire
The prosperity of the Sumerians attracted various nomadic peoples. From the Arabian peninsula, the
Semitic tribes (Arabs, Hebrews and Syrians) constantly invaded the Mesopotamian region from 2500
BC, until they established their final rule.
Sumerian Renaissance
According to a commemorative tablet it was Utu-hegal, king of Uruk, who, around 2100 BC. C.,
defeated and expelled the Guti rulers from the Sumerian lands.
Babylonians and Assyrians
With the fall of the hegemony of Ur, a period of darkness like that which had occurred with the
Akkadian Empire was not repeated. This stage will be marked by the progressive rise of Amorite
dynasties in practically all the cities of the region.
The paleobabilonian empire
In 1792 a. C. Hammurabi comes to the throne of the hitherto little important city of Babylon, from
which a policy of expansion will begin.